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An MCC Mystery Solved
MPLAB Code Configurator is a tool that has revolutionised the way I work with microcontrollers. I use it every day, for each and every project and, in fact, I found out that I am creating more projects than ever because of … Continue reading
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Tagged MCC, PIC16, RocketScience
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Chrome Extensions and the Ultimate Platform
The Chrome browser has never been my favourite for some mysterious (perhaps purely estetical) reason, but I have learned to appreciate it in recent time for the continuous (furious) effort the developer’s team has put into advancing its technology. Recent Chrome betas … Continue reading
Pinout Tables for Curiosity
When writing/porting applications to the Curiosity demo board I found myself looking over and over at the schematic (contained in the User Guide) for the connections between the 20-pin socket and the click board (mikroBUS) connector. Crossing this information with the … Continue reading
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Curiosity is Here
Finally the new PICDEM-Curiosity (DM164137) board is here! It’s available on MicrochipDIRECT, at most distributors and online catalogs in stock. There have been a few changes since the first prototype was shown to me during the final edits of the Rocket … Continue reading
Upverter Click Competition
The Upverter Click competition is on, it has been for a while, but I had no time to really look into it… The email announcement had arrived in my inbox a while ago (July, were did the summer go? sich!) but … Continue reading
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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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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
