After some discussions here and elsewhere, I've decided to attempt integrating some #PixelBlaze hardware into my project. This will free up 6 DIO pins on the #microcontroller, allowing direct UART connection from the LoRa node.
Plan now is to use a Pixelblaze with their 1 to 8 Output Expander to work out control signaling. Then, produce that signaling from my hardware. The Pixelblaze will be a sort of test jig to use its web UI to write & test.
This way my project can be kept a degree more simple, and I can still trigger various display output depending on different conditions of the bicycle. (One #Neopixel "strip" will be a tail/brake light.)
App Lab for the new UNO Q can be quite limiting. If you want to use the more powerful command line (CLI) to transfer and run projects, check out my guide here:
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https://shawnhymel.com/3074/how-to-use-the-command-line-cli-with-the-arduino-uno-q/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=general_courses_blog
This one's actually a little old, as it got stuck in the to-publish queue, but still very neat: a 3D-printed isomorphic Hall-effect velocity-sensitive MIDI keyboard powered by an Espressif ESP32. The demo video's worth a watch!
#MIDI #Music #3DPrinting #Technology #Microcontroller #Makers #News #Hackster
Maker Chen Liang's published a guide on turning an Espressif ESP32-C5 into a dual-band Wi-Fi analyser - and all you need is a dev board and a display. Well, plus wires and a power source.
Electronic tinkerers, hobbyists, jack of all trades;
A question for you; How do you plan out your #microcontroller projects, especially when it comes to layout/housing, etc.
For example; I have an #ESP32 project that is going to require a handful of seperate, but connected #modules / #boards (e.g. antenna/extension, usb, solar, bms, etc.) and conceptually it'd be nice to plan these things out rather than just throw them all at a housing and hot glue it all in place 🤣
Does such a tool exist? I could see it being problematic with 400 different bms/solar/charging modules all in different footprints, but figured I'd toss out the question to the verse and see if anyone had feedback.
Thanks!
If you’ve written a Windows application that can read the Serial Number/Unique ID, or even the Vendor ID or Product ID of a microcontroller board (Pi Pico in my case) I’d appreciate any pointers.
#arduino #RaspberryPiPico #piPico #esp32 #windows #microcontroller #microcontrollers
Libmpix on Zephyr OS is an open source pipeline for image processing. #simd and #micropython support are in progress.
#libmpix #zephyr #microcontroller #mcu #imaging #pipeline #rtos
Via:
https://wiki.pythonlinks.info/libmpix
Today in "weird stuff I forgot I owned"
The PhonePIC is a PIC programmer from the early 2000s, that allows you to program a microcontroller by sending it DTMF tones.
The board has a mic attached to it, that you hold up to you phones handset and then press keys to write programs!
I'm not sure if this makes PIC programming easier, or harder.
Manual: https://downloads.paulseward.com/PhonePIC/PhonePIC.pdf
Edit for tags: #pic #microcontroller #phone #dtmf #arduino
Today in "weird stuff I forgot I owned"
The PhonePIC is a PIC programmer from the early 2000s, that allows you to program a microcontroller by sending it DTMF tones.
The board has a mic attached to it, that you hold up to you phones handset and then press keys to write programs!
I'm not sure if this makes PIC programming easier, or harder.
Manual: https://downloads.paulseward.com/PhonePIC/PhonePIC.pdf
Edit for tags: #pic #microcontroller #phone #dtmf #arduino
I /think/ the string of digits on the front cover does something like:
Set pin2 high
Set pin1 low
nop(?)
Beep once
END
I'm assuming 00=nop, I can't actually find that code in the manual
New Attiny85 based edition with Bootloader to program it via sound. Add this to your additional hardware manager: http://8bitmixtape.github.io/package_8bitmixtape_index.json or directly program by ...
We had a LOT of PIC stuff at Paignton Library for the STEM group, as far as I am aware it is still there, It would be great if anyone in Torbay or surrounding area who would be interest in using it, it could perhaps be obtained for a group at the Library.
Right now it is just gathering dust, I know what it is, no one else does, but I just know it is microcontroller related.
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#Technology
#Programming
#PIC
#Paignton
#Library
#Tinkerers
#STEM
@lkundrak I think it's a product that only made sense in the right place, at the right point in history
You need to:
* Be a school in the early 2000s
* Want to teach kids about microcontrollers
* Be a school that doesn't have enough computers to cover that lesson
* Somehow still be OK with students using phones in class?!
I guess it didn't have to be a phone, pocket DTMF keypads were easily available for very little money.
That would certainly be a lot cheaper than buying PCs!
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