Tag Archives: SD Cards

NESI – Ready for Blast Off

I learned today about the NESI board (photo above), a PIC24 based data acquisition board designed to fit in the NanoRacks, a platform for research on microgravity effects on board of the International Space Station. It has been created by … Continue reading

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Adding Support for the PIC32 Mikromedia

I have just finished the first complete port of all the “Graphics, Touch, Sound and USB” book projects to the PIC32 Mikromedia board series! There were several lessons learned in the process, interested readers will find detailed notes (and a link to a shared Mercurial repository) … Continue reading

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Adding support for the PIC24EP Mikromedia

I have just finished the first complete port of all the “Graphics, Touch, Sound and USB” book projects to the PIC24EP Mikromedia board series! There were several lessons learned in the process, interested users will find detailed notes (and a link to a … Continue reading

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The Smallest WAV Player

In the last three chapters of the Flying PIC24 book,  I developed a simple audio (WAV) file player. What most readers might not know though is  that that code was really written first for an 8-bit micro controller back in 2002, when I had … Continue reading

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SDHC and SDXC

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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