Monthly Archives: July 2013

New Mikromedia, new (better) Audio Player (VS1053)

Posted on 30. July 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

A short while ago I wrote about a small module that I wrote to support the Audio Codec chip present on the Mikromedia (PIC24) boards (link). What I had not noticed though was that I had been playing at home … Continue reading →

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Unexpected (Positive) Side Effects of using Python: Cross Platform Simulation

Posted on 28. July 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

When talking of side effects, more often than not, we are referring to the bad ones. This is especially true when they are involuntary and unexpected. But here is the story of a good one, a side effect of using … Continue reading →

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Python Expressiveness

Posted on 26. July 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

While learning a new language you will notice how the often enthusiastic literature available dispenses adjectives with quite some generosity. Apparently every new language out there claims to be more “expressive” than the previous. This is an easy claim when … Continue reading →

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Python on the MX7MMB

Posted on 13. July 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

I have just added to the repository (link) support for the PIC32MX7 on the Mikroe MX7 Multimedia board. This is obviously the richest board available and it allows Python to use 120KBytes + of RAM. Makes me wonder what kind … Continue reading →

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Python for the Mikromedia and Mini-32 boards

Posted on 9. July 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

I have finally gotten my hands back on the Pymite project and I have updated the v10 branch to include three PIC32 platform. Both the Mini-32 and the PIC32 Mikromedia are now supporting a USB (CDC) serial interface to the … Continue reading →

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