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- 1. March 2010: Solve this!
- 29. January 2010: PIC32 Starter Kits Software v2.0
- 27. January 2010: Animation on the MikroE PIC32MX4 Multimedia Board
- 26. December 2009: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
- 18. November 2009: MikroE MX4 Multimedia Board
- 30. September 2009: Good old printf() (continued)
- 26. August 2009: Changing habits... and dreaming a bit
- 24. July 2009: Where is my RAM?
- 15. July 2009: Olimex PIC-P32MX board
- 28. June 2009: A Great New Board from mikroElektronika
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Solve this!
1. March 2010 by pilot.
So I am still investigating the animation capabilities of the PIC32 and the MikroElektronika multimedia board… and having a lot of fun.
Do you remember how to solve the Rubik’s cube? Enjoy!
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Animation on the MikroE PIC32MX4 Multimedia Board
27. January 2010 by pilot.
I must admit, the MikroElektronika PIC32MX4 Multimedia Board has recently stolen the little that was left of my free time. I found myself toying around until late at night with it, and I have resurrected a number of old projects. The little QVGA display is so attractive, and I could not resist but try to port some of my favorite graphics programs to it.
Basically, if you have seen the MikroE web site, you have already seen a screenshot of the Mandelbrot project ported to the PIC32MMB. But if you have tried any of the advanced projects I posted on the PIC32 explorer web site, then you already know what I did next.
Graphics animation is more fun! It is different from basic graphics GUI design and support, because you have to add a real time element to it. To provide fluid motion you have to use double buffering techniques, and if there is 3D, linear algebra needs to be mixed in.
While this is all still very much a big work in progress, I would like to share with you a couple of previews of the kind of things you can do with the PIC32MMB.
This is the basic wireframe 3D cube animation (link)
There are four more videos for you to explore:
A more complex 3D wireframe (link)
More objects animated in 3D (link)
Using the onboard accelerometer to move around objects (link)
And finally a Solid (filled faces) rotating cube with hidden face removal (link)
Now things are getting real entertaining… any ideas?
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MikroE MX4 Multimedia Board
18. November 2009 by pilot.
It’s out! They did it!
The new PIC32 multimedia board from MikroElektronika has been officially announced today! http://www.mikroe.com/en/tools/pic32mx4-multimedia-board/
MikroE is world reknown for its well designed, documented and fully featured demo boards and development tools for all Microchip microcontroller families. But if you liked their Big Boards… you are going to love this “small” one.
For less than $150 you get a board that can truly put the PIC32MX460F512 chip to work, allowing you to exercise all its peripherals, including:
- Drive a TFT QVGA (320×240) display with a fast 16-bit parallel interface
- Read Touch screen input or Joystick inputs
- Play and record sound interfacing to WM8731 16-bit audio codec (including headphone amplified stereo outputs)
- Access files on SD/MMC cards
- Access files on USB memory sticks (USB Host)
- Connect to a PC (USB device) using HID, CDC or MSD classes
- Connect to a Mouse, Keyboard or printer (USB Host)
- Connect with a IEEE802.15.4 (MiWi/Zigbee) wireless network
- Access additional 1Mbyte of serial flash memory
- Access 1Kbit of serial EEPROM
- Exercise the Real Time Clock and Calendar with a 32kHz external crystal
- Interface to an MCP9700 temperature sensor
- RS232 port selectable (UART1/2)
- Interface to a 3 axes accelerometer (ADXL345)
- Use an ICD2/3, Real ICE or even a simple PICKit2/3 to program and debug
- Further expand the board using standard 100mils spaced side connectors
Also you can take full advantage of the entire set of Microchip Application libraries to create complex applications fast! In fact the board is designed to be compatible with the following Microchip (free of charge) libraries:
- Advanced Graphics Libraries
- USB Framework (Host/Device)
- MDD File System (FAT16 and FAT32)
- MiWi / Zigbee
- 32-bit Audio library
- Peripheral library (I2C, SPI, UART, RTCC, PWM…)
I want one!… CORRECTION.., I need one!… CORRECTION I need a bunch of them!
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