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ESP32 Bit Pirate v1.8: Turning an ESP32-S3 into an SDR and Multi-Protocol Hardware Debugging Tool

geotp — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:53:34 GMT

ESP32 Bit Pirate is an open-source firmware inspired by the original Bus Pirate, designed to turn inexpensive ESP32-S3 development boards into versatile hardware debugging and experimentation tools. The project started as a way to interact with comm...(read more)

PID controller without floating point for MSPM0

Jan Cumps — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:50:19 GMT

PID controller implementation without using integer arithmetic. Uses TI IQMath lib to replace floating point instructions. Some of the content is created with AI support. I've marked the parts where AI was used.All narrative i...(read more)

MSPM0 project with VS Code, CMake and GCC - part 7c: stepper motor control with S-shaped ramps

Jan Cumps — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:09:59 GMT

In this blog series, I build a Texas Instruments MSPM0 example with VS Code as IDE, and CMake as build infrastructure. In the next series of posts, I try to create a stepper motor project. It will be based on TI's stepper motor middlew...(read more)

EZ-MCXN: Simple Dev Board for NXP MCX N-Series Microcontrollers!

shabaz — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:40:02 GMT

Table of Contents Introduction MCX Overview MCXN236 Circuit Diagram Supply Decoupling USB and Boot Audio Interfaces SPI, TFT, LEDs and Buttons: User Interface I2C and more SPI: microSD Card ADC and Spare GPIO Pins Board Layout and Parts ...(read more)

MSPM0 project with VS Code, CMake and GCC - part 7b: middleware stepper motor control with A4988 stepper driver

Jan Cumps — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:05:11 GMT

Connecting AI to the Physical World with MCP and a Pi Pico W

shabaz — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:39:36 GMT

Table of Contents Introduction MCP Explained Working with MCP Using a Simple MCP Server Library Building and Running the Code Connecting the Agent Summary Introduction AI agents can be extremely useful, but it would often be helpful if they coul...(read more)

MSPM0 project with VS Code, CMake and GCC - part 7a: middleware example stepper motor control

Jan Cumps — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:12:35 GMT

MSPM0 interrupt messaging system

Jan Cumps — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:48:10 GMT

You can handle MSPM0 interrupts via the traditional service request handler. But it also has a messaging system. With message handlers, you can route notifications from one peripheral to another. In this example: react on a button click and togg...(read more)

MSPM0 project with VS Code, CMake and GCC - part 6: empty "template" project

Jan Cumps — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:32:56 GMT

In this blog series, I build a Texas Instruments MSPM0 example with VS Code as IDE, and CMake as build infrastructure.In the previous posts, I created an end to end flow, from install over build to debug, tested on LaunchPad and EasyL1105 kit.In...(read more)

MSPM0 project with VS Code, CMake and GCC - part 5: Open .syscfg file in SysConfig GUI

Jan Cumps — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:42:25 GMT

In this blog series, I build a Texas Instruments MSPM0 example with VS Code as IDE, and CMake as build infrastructure.In posts 1 - 4, I created an end to end flow, from install over build to debug, tested on LaunchPad and EasyL1105 kit.In post 5...(read more)

MSPM0 C++ project: service handler considerations

Jan Cumps — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:21:17 GMT

You can use C++ for MSPM0 designs. There's one watch-out: if you have your event handlers in a .cpp file, you have to wrap those functions in an extern "C" {} wrapper. The SysConfig mechanism expect that the handlers have a particular name.&nbsp...(read more)

MSPM0 project with VS Code, CMake and GCC - part 4: EasyL1105 example

Jan Cumps — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:36:18 GMT

In this blog series, I build a Texas Instruments MSPM0 example with VS Code as IDE, and CMake as build infrastructure.In posts 1 - 3, I created an end to end flow, from install over build to debug.In post 4: testing it out on the EasyL1105: A De...(read more)

MSPM0 project with VS Code, CMake and GCC - part 3: debug

Jan Cumps — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:36:17 GMT

In this blog series, I build a Texas Instruments MSPM0 example with VS Code as IDE, and CMake as build infrastructure.Post 2 covered the software build. In this post: debugging the firmware. If not done yet, open the TI Embedded Debugger plugi...(read more)

MSPM0 project with VS Code, CMake and GCC - part 2: build a real project

Jan Cumps — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:23:41 GMT

In this blog series, I build a Texas Instruments MSPM0 example with VS Code as IDE, and CMake as build infrastructure.Post 1 covered the software setup. In this post: build firmware, Configure Environment Variables SDK_ROOT and SYSCONFIG_...(read more)

MSPM0 project with VS Code, CMake and GCC - part 1: infrastructure

Jan Cumps — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:37:46 GMT

In this blog series, I plan to build a Texas Instruments MSPM0 example with VS Code as IDE, and CMake as build infrastructure.I'm trying to use the guidelines from TI's Using CMake with TI Clang Compilers and SysConfig. But then with GCC (version 15 ...(read more)