Author Archives: Lucio Di Jasio

SDHC and SDXC

Posted on 20. June 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

A couple of readers have warned me recently that SDHC and SDXC cards are becoming the norm and that spells troubles for the unaware. In fact, both in the PIC24 (both editions) and the PIC32 book, I spent a couple … Continue reading →

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CUI32 Stem

Posted on 30. May 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

CUI stands for “Create USB Interface” and it is really an open project based on the PIC32 that includes a large set of modular hardware and software solutions, in their words: “The Create USB Interface is an open source microcontroller … Continue reading →

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32-bit PIC programming in Python!

Posted on 15. May 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

It has been a long journey for me to learn about modern interpreted object oriented programming languages, first on the desktop (see post here), later on industrial control and data acquisition applications (see post here) and now I feel like … Continue reading →

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The Sinclair ZX Spectrum turns 30!

Posted on 23. April 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

Happy Birthday ZX Spectrum! Today Google UK  dedicates the daily doodle to  the 30th birthday of the ZX Spectrum. I am part of that generation that learned to love computers/programming playing games like Manic Miner on an 8-bit little console … Continue reading →

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Dmitry Grinberg

Posted on 30. March 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

  There are rare times when you realize unmistakably that you are in the presence of true genius. Visiting Dmitry’s web site today was one of them! Check out this project and you will get the picture! Now genius and … Continue reading →

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Codecademy

Posted on 27. March 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

Last night, I was cleaning up (managing) my notes (I use Evernote for pretty much everything in my life) and I stumbled upon a reference to “codecademy”.  For as much as I tried I could not remember what it was … Continue reading →

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MPLAB X

Posted on 4. March 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

So it is done! After more than two years from my first hopeful post I have completed the transition. I have severed all my connections with Windows. MPLAB  was the last strong chain keeping prisoner but with the latest release … Continue reading →

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Virgil

Posted on 19. February 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

  I was reading recently about the (slow) adoption of object oriented programming languages in the embedded world. There is quite a sad situation, while in the mainstream, OOP languages are pretty much a standard, in the embedded world, they … Continue reading →

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Maximite

Posted on 11. February 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

I have to confess that, if I had not already done so in the past,  when I wrote some of the material for the PIC24″flying” book such as the composite video and the keyboard interface examples, I had a bigger … Continue reading →

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Atypical Curiosity

Posted on 17. January 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

Actually I am typically pretty curious, especially when it comes to programming languages. Atypical is a programming language that I discovered recently almost by mistake. It was designed for the PIC and around the PIC assembly (midrange, 14-bit core) by … Continue reading →

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