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Monthly Archives: August 2015
An OLED Image Editor
In the OLED Click project I quickly ported the OLED driver (SSD1306) routines and packaged them with the low level SPI master drivers provided by MPLAB Code Configurator. The functionality test in itself included only displaying an image stored in an array in … Continue reading
Experimenting with the OLED Click
One thing many of my experiments can often use is an alphanumeric display, even better a graphic one. OLED displays have become really cheap nowadays and their low current consumption (when compared to a TFT display or an LCD with … Continue reading
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Tagged CIPs, MCC, PIC16, RocketScience
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First look at the PIC16F157x family
With a thick press release on July 20th, Microchip announced the arrival of two new microcontroller families the PIC16F157x and the PIC16F188xx each sporting numerous (up to a dozen) part numbers. This would be an exceptional announcement from any other company, but it represent … Continue reading
Blueboot – A Bluetooth Bootloader
While I was waiting for the Curiosity board to arrive, I started experimenting with my home made Simplicity board (really a PICKit3 Low Pin Count demo board with a microBUS connector soldered in the prototyping area), and I decided to take … Continue reading
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Tagged Bootloader, CIPs, Click, MCC, PIC16, Python, RocketScience
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A forum for Rocket Scientists
As advised by a friend, I am going to try and support a Google Group appropriately named “This is (not) Rocket Science”. The idea is to provide timely errata information and ultimately to enable readers of the book to exchange ‘experiences’ , good … Continue reading
