Author Archives: Lucio Di Jasio

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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MPLAB X PIC32 projects now on Bitbucket.org!

Posted on 24. May 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

  In the process of updating the projects in the PIC32 book (“Programming 32-bit microcontrollers in C”) to the latest and greatest version of MPLAB X and the XC32 compiler, I have decided to  adopt a proper versioning tool (Mercurial aka Hg) … Continue reading →

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X Files

Posted on 12. April 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

I have just received from a friend a link to a piece of the history of the first “singe chip calculator”:  http://www.spingal.plus.com/micro/ The web  page is titled “Microprocessor History” and tells the story of what was research and development work … Continue reading →

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In-Animate

Posted on 1. February 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

MPLAB X is evolving, and this means that new features are being added at every release. Sadly some old features that have been with us since the early days of MPLAB have gone the way of the dodo. Animate is … Continue reading →

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Playing MP3 and Wav files on the uMedia boards

Posted on 20. January 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

I have received a couple of requests recently for support interfacing a PIC32 or a PIC24 to some popular MP3 decoders/codecs from VLSI technology. Since I had a PIC24 MicroMedia board on my desk that begged to be used, I … Continue reading →

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Generating Map files with MPLAB X

Posted on 15. January 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

I started using MPLAB X since the very first betas were made available so I have eventually acquired a little confidence with the tool. Occasionally though I can still find myself hunting around for a feature/configuration parameter that is not … Continue reading →

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Flying Europe Now!

Posted on 28. October 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

So it is official, I ‘ve added a JAA (European) Pilot License to my resume! It took me a lot of patience and perseverance to work through all the nonsense and abuse of the Italian bureaucracy, but eventually I got … Continue reading →

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Designing a good API

Posted on 28. September 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

I have recently re-discovered Youtube. In a sense I have been on a learning path for several years now and I have changed my perspective on this “tool” multiple times. In the beginning there was the enthusiasm about the new … Continue reading →

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More tools from Mikroe

Posted on 17. July 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

Every now and then I get a chance to talk to the guys at Mikroe and they never fail to surprise me, both for the amount of work they get done in a short time and most importantly the quality … Continue reading →

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