Monthly Archives: July 2015
Ten Projects for Simplicity
While waiting for the PICDEM Curiosity board (DM164137) to become more “available”, I kept at testing various new click boards with the “Simplicity board” aka PICKIT3 Low Pin Count demo board (DM164130-9). Note the two SIL connectors added to the … Continue reading
Stuck in Kindergarten!
There is only one thing that annoys me more than the hype and abuse of “IoT” and that is the hype surrounding the term “Hack”! I do understand the need to excite a generation of young minds to take more STEM and … Continue reading
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A Tale of Two (USB) Bootloaders
I have been looking with great interest at boot loaders design in recent months. It all started with the “Graphics, Touch, Sound and USB” book I published last year, where I used Mikromedia boards as my primary hardware platform to … Continue reading
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eXtreme USB with PIC16F145x
Believe it or not, this is the USB temperature data-logger project recently (June 15, 2015) posted on Hackaday.io by Michael Mogenson. Now the temperature sensing aspect of the project is relatively interesting to me, what is absolutely unique is the ingenuity applied to … Continue reading
