I just tried mbed.org and I liked it š mbed is a development framework for ARM microcontrollers (well it looks like Arduino for ARM to me), officially supported by ARM. Mbed.org also has online IDE and compiler. The simplicity of…
Category: Programming
Another Arduino Nikon IR Remote
I am a proud new owner of a Nikon D3300 camera and yesterday while browsing the hackaday prize entries I found this project. It’s a pretty neat IR remote for a Nikon camera. And I even have some of those…
Posted in Arduino, Photography, Programming Tagged with: arduino intervalometer, arduino ir remote, d3300 intervalometer, ir remote, nikon d3300 remote, nikon ir remote
Making your computer not go to sleep or turn on the screen saver
I am currently playing with some GPS receivers and video capture. The problem I had is that even as the recording was in progress theĀ laptop shut down to conserve power. I know that I can change the sleep /…
Posted in Drivers, Programming, Software Tagged with: insomnia, mouse jiggle, mouse jiggler, prevent laptop sleep, prevent power saving, prevent screen shutdown
Correctly setting up prebulid batch script in CooCox
Today I spent quite some time figuring out how to set up a batch script to run before a bulid in a CooCox IDE. The script I wrote was to automatically change the bulid number of a program I am…
Posted in Electronics, Programming, Software Tagged with: autoincrement bulid number, automaticaly increment bulid number, batch, CooCox, increment bulid numer, postbulid script, prebulid script
Connecting multiple virtual serial ports together
Have you ever had the need to connect multiple programs that utilize serial ports? Or you tried to stream the data from single GPS device to multiple programs that needed the data? Then either you found out it can’t easily…
Posted in Drivers, Programming, Software Tagged with: com0com, connecting virtual serial ports, hub4com, serial port routing, virtual serial port
Arduino generating two fast phase offset signals
So recently I wanted to generate two fast (40kHz), phase offset signals with Arduino. I have done various modes of PWM and PPM modulation before, but have not yet tried to generate phase offset signals. Actually there is only one…
Posted in Arduino, Electronics, Programming Tagged with: 40kHz signal generator, arduino, phase offset pwm, phase offset signals, waveform generation
Portable piezoelectric micropump driver
I recently did a presentatiton on Low-power Piezoelectric Micropump Driving Module at the MIDEM International ConferenceĀ on Microelectronics, Devices and Materials. The module was developed at the Laboratory of Microsensor Structures and Electronics. Despite its small size the module is…
Posted in Electronics, Programming Tagged with: drv2667, high voltage, lab on a chip, lmse, micropump driver, midem, piezoelectric micropump, portable micropump driver
USR-WIFI232 wifi to serial module (HF-LPT100)
I have bought a USR-WIFI232-T module, which seems to be identical to HF-LPT100. The main chip is marked with HF so the High Flying may be the original producer. The module is onlyĀ 22 x 13,5 x 6mm in size and…
Posted in Arduino, Electronics, Programming Tagged with: at commands, cp2102, hf-lpt100, high flying, internet, module, usr, usr-wifi232, usr-wifi232-t, wifi
ESP8266 connecting to internet
You should connect to the module as outlined in my first article about this module (which also shows use of some other commands). To try out the commands in this post you should already have the module set up in…
Posted in Electronics, Programming Tagged with: at commands, client, communication, esp8266, fetch http, internet, programming, server, wifi module
ESP8266 WIFI module
I just got a ESP8266 WIFI module I ordered a few weeks ago. This is the pinout: Just a quick warning: It seems that the inputs are not 5V tolerant, so be careful and do not connect the module to…
Posted in Electronics, Programming Tagged with: at commands, client, esp8266, programming, server, wifi module