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Category Archives: Tools
Weekend Reading Recommendations
Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well—usually programs they wrote themselves—and never study … Continue reading
Temboo and the IoT Babel Tower
I recently discovered Temboo, and after playing with it for a few minutes I was able to get a short Python script accessing a complex Google API I had never seen before running and delivering useful data to my .. … Continue reading
Hello Twitter!
They tell me that every good author should have a Twitter account and should tweet early and often. They say a good author should use Facebook too! Now that might be stretching it for me, but I can give Twitter a … Continue reading
Notes for PIC32 Mikromedia Plus Users
I spent a few hours this past weekend testing the new “Graphics, Touch, Audio and USB” book examples on the PIC32 Mikromedia Plus board. Here is a short summary of the discoveries and the few changes required take advantage of the gorgeous 4.3″ TFT display … Continue reading
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About Distributed Version Control Systems
Working on the PyMite project recently, I have been exposed for the first time to Mercurial a distributed version control system. That is when I was just starting to feel confident that I could handle a more traditional VCS such … Continue reading
New Mikromedia, new (better) Audio Player (VS1053)
A short while ago I wrote about a small module that I wrote to support the Audio Codec chip present on the Mikromedia (PIC24) boards (link). What I had not noticed though was that I had been playing at home … Continue reading
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Playing MP3 and Wav files on the uMedia boards
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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Tagged Mikromedia
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Generating Map files with MPLAB X
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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More tools from Mikroe
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
CUI32 Stem
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