Follow MCU on Eclipse, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/mcu-on-eclipse Tue, 18 Jan 2022 08:39:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xWnpVs3tJzLQaB2UxGNFpJ Split-flap displays are electromechanical display devices, which were common in airports or railway stations a few years ago.Unfortunately, most of them are gone and replaced by LED displays. Why not create a DIY version of it? As mechanical devices they … Continue reading →]]> Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:22:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xWnpVs3tJzLQaB2UxGNFpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3wwMCYcb8lMP_nNuMIJyU22 In Spilling the Beans: C/C++ Header Files, I touched on interfaces and the difference between external and internal linkage. This article has a focus on internal linkage with using the static keyword in C. So this might be a programming language … Continue reading →]]> Sat, 01 Jan 2022 21:17:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3wwMCYcb8lMP_nNuMIJyU22 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xAzQ4DxIrr6OQEmsPXZ5C9 LoRaWAN is getting more an more popular, both for terrestrial and increasingly with low-orbit satellite systems. The ‘Long Range’ in ‘LoRa’ makes it an ideal solution for low-power and low data rate applications. For a university research project we selected … Continue reading →]]> Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:32:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xAzQ4DxIrr6OQEmsPXZ5C9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3yK2A1fJH4YEqrkJyTkC_2b I’m pleased to announce a new release of the McuOnEclipse components, available on SourceForge. This release includes several bug fixes, support for more devices, and updated components like FreeRTOS, MinINI, Percepio Tracealyzer and SEGGER SystemView. SourceForge 💡 Not using Processor … Continue reading →]]> Sun, 26 Dec 2021 12:36:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3yK2A1fJH4YEqrkJyTkC_2b https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3yNTZwYJCbVMt3hDS9njgCr For more than two years I’m using the NXP LPC845 in my university courses. Beside of that it is used in many projects. First, because the LPC845-BRK board is small, breadboard friendly and inexpensive. Second, for many small projects that … Continue reading →]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2021 21:40:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3yNTZwYJCbVMt3hDS9njgCr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xXiTMV3WEH-K7VFky8BpXO Many embedded systems application need to store some kind of data in a persistent way: calibration values, settings or log information. For a smaller amount of data, using an external memory or file system is an overkill. In many system … Continue reading →]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2021 13:45:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xXiTMV3WEH-K7VFky8BpXO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xYU3NJVP1bJVw3HFUzDTIP Switzerland got a snow cover, part of it melted away again. But with more snow coming the next days. December started, and so did the Advent season. Similar to last year, we wanted to create a special advent calendar, which … Continue reading →]]> Sun, 05 Dec 2021 22:00:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xYU3NJVP1bJVw3HFUzDTIP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3yz4Gc-SK-pIn-fx8LWuXng Header files in C/C++ are defining the interface between different modules. In this article I share some tips and tricks how create such interface files. Creating Header File Most IDEs have a helper to create header files, including Eclipse. What … Continue reading →]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2021 14:34:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3yz4Gc-SK-pIn-fx8LWuXng https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xN_jDphxbr1e4sICfMfkNm I’m using debug probes on a daily base. They have to be functional, and I value functionality over aesthetics. For cost reasons many debug probe vendors either only provide a bare PCB without enclosure, or the enclosure is made of … Continue reading →]]> Sun, 07 Nov 2021 14:18:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xN_jDphxbr1e4sICfMfkNm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xEvj9-GvSLEBKeetMRuZbW One thing to create with a desktop CNC are boxes: wooden boxes with inlays: Of course there are many other useful things you can o with a CNC and wood. But creating some nice boxes, suitable as a gift or … Continue reading →]]> Tue, 02 Nov 2021 21:55:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xEvj9-GvSLEBKeetMRuZbW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3ztLb0dUZ9IBTHgrmwRGUK6 The Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a great IDE, but does not (yet?) implement features for true embedded usage. Or things are there to some level, but hard to use. One of these things is how to step in the … Continue reading →]]> Sat, 23 Oct 2021 11:33:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3ztLb0dUZ9IBTHgrmwRGUK6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xIFK-4wFs3q20dX84dnP8Y One of the great things in Eclipse is that it can be customized down to the bits. The downside (pun intended) is that it might not be obvious how to do this. So here is how you can create your … Continue reading →]]> Mon, 18 Oct 2021 23:35:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xIFK-4wFs3q20dX84dnP8Y https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3x7cqU9yQEqm93hDS9njgCr After the release of the NXP MCU-Link debug probe, there have been hints in the Eclipse based MCUXpresso IDE that there must be another one coming. And indeed: another and more powerful debug probe is now available: the MCU-Link Pro. … Continue reading →]]> Sun, 17 Oct 2021 15:28:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3x7cqU9yQEqm93hDS9njgCr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3wbaiY5eF3RJUTXPGaG87AR It is interesting to see that some aspects (mostly unintended) can stimulate lots of good and fruitful discussions. So this happened with “Spilling the Beans: Endless Loops” (recommended to read 🙂 where using (or not using) volatile for inline assembly created … Continue reading →]]> Tue, 12 Oct 2021 07:35:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3wbaiY5eF3RJUTXPGaG87AR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3zTDvPQakjZ9JJTpfXVttXD In “Spilling the Beans: Endless Loops” several ways of creating and using endless loops were discussed. In this ‘bean’ it is about how to exit or break a loop. Usually a loop has a ‘ending condition’. The following examples print … Continue reading →]]> Sun, 10 Oct 2021 10:08:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3zTDvPQakjZ9JJTpfXVttXD https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3yWmxmGW2DKHtKEpFgimKzx The university lectures are kind of ‘back to normal’: with the COVID certificates mandatory, many former limitations (social distance, masks, …) have been relaxed. So this means there are now many more questions and discussions with students. One of the … Continue reading →]]> Mon, 04 Oct 2021 23:26:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3yWmxmGW2DKHtKEpFgimKzx https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xzq0lEsWXsiS1Ly282xAAw For me the Cortex-Debug Visual Studio extension by marus25 is the standard way to use VSC for embedded development. Another ‘standard’ piece I’m using in many of my projects is the SEGGER RTT. Outline RTT is a bidirectional-multi-channel communication protocol … Continue reading →]]> Sun, 03 Oct 2021 14:39:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/dbBb951cA3xzq0lEsWXsiS1Ly282xAAw