Monthly Archives: July 2015

Ten Projects for Simplicity

Posted on 24. July 2015 by Lucio Di Jasio

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 →

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Stuck in Kindergarten!

Posted on 13. July 2015 by Lucio Di Jasio

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

Posted on 2. July 2015 by Lucio Di Jasio

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

Posted on 1. July 2015 by Lucio Di Jasio

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 →

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