Tag Archives: PIC32

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum turns 30!

Happy Birthday ZX Spectrum! Today Google UK  dedicates the daily doodle to  the 30th birthday of the ZX Spectrum. I am part of that generation that learned to love computers/programming playing games like Manic Miner on an 8-bit little console … Continue reading

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PIC32 Interrupt Nesting (update)

The more recent versions of the MPLAB C32 compiler (v1.6 and later) have changed the way interrupt nesting is defined by default by making it automatically Enabled! The effect of this change is that of making part of the “nesting.c” … Continue reading

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Animation on the MikroE PIC32MX4 Multimedia Board

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. … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas and Happy Free RTOS

It is Christmas, again, not sure how this happened … Of all my ambitious plans for  2009 only a few got done, but looking back I am pretty sure somebody must have stolen a couple of months from this years’ … Continue reading

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MikroE MX4 Multimedia Board

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 … Continue reading

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Good Old printf()

Good old printf() is probably the oldest debugging tool ever used, I mean beside a light bulb (nowadays replaced by an LED) … yet it represents a pretty sophisticated one when working in a deeply embedded control project. If you … Continue reading

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