Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
The Energia team announces the availability of version 0101E0017. We wrote about it previously: A new version of Energia has been released. This version fixes alot of bugs from the previous version and also adds support for the following: Support for three new boards have been added added: - CC2650 based...Tags: Energia
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Thursday, November 5th, 2015
Ondřej Karas writes: A few months ago, I published post about DPA .NET Class. This article describes simple, but effective library used for DPA handling by MCU (UART interface). Published library is independent on the MCU family, but it was written for 32-bit ARM processors with Cortex-M3 core and GNU...Tags: DPA, library, MCU
Posted in library, software | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, October 13th, 2015
Kicad announce 2015 Release Candidate 4.0.0 RC1: We are pleased to announce that KiCad has finally made a 2015 release branch. The 2015 stable release of KiCad will start from version 4.0.0. Currently we are in the release candidate phase and as such BZR 6188 is now known as 4.0.0...Tags: Kicad, release candidate
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015
rheslip writes: I came up with this idea after seeing Farhan Ashar's spectrum analyzer design which uses some of the same bits and pieces I used in the Simple Scalar Network Analyzer. Farhan's is a classic heterodyne SA design - the addition of mixers and filters in front of the...Tags: Rigol, spectrum analyzer
Posted in oscilloscope, software | 1 Comment »
Thursday, August 20th, 2015
Peter Scargill writes: I wrote a while ago about using web sockets as against something like NETIO for controlling the home – most folk liked the article but I think part of it was a little complicated – and at the time I’d not really thought it out to make...Tags: ESP8266, jQuery, MQTT, Web Sockets
Posted in site, software, wireless | No Comments »
Thursday, August 13th, 2015
Rich Olson writes: ChainringGen is an OpenSCAD script I wrote that can generate a bike chainring with any specifications you like. You can download ChainringGen here. You can control parameters like bolt-circle-diameter (BCD), number of bolt holes, number of teeth and other stuff. I primarily created ChainringGen because I thought...Tags: OpenSCAD
Posted in open source, software | 2 Comments »
Monday, July 20th, 2015
Ondřej Karas writes: This article describes simple wireless Dallas one-wire device ROM reader. It is intended as a base code for some more sophisticated access control system. We try some kind of access system in followings articles. Now, we are going to read 1-wire ROM code. We use DDC-SE-01-dallas.c from...Tags: one wire, ROM code
Posted in software, wireless | No Comments »
Monday, May 4th, 2015
Nikos has developed an Android app which works with the RTL-SDR dongle to demodulate the ADSB signal from aircraft and overlays the position of the aircraft on a high resolution offline map. So the user can use the App without Internet connectivity, on board an aircraft in real time! Nikos'...Tags: ADSB#, offline flight tracker, RTL-SDR
Posted in Android, SDR, software | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 20th, 2015
Erich writes: I’m using mostly an external terminal program like Termite. But it is a very useful thing to have a terminal view in Eclipse so I do not need to switch to another application. All what is needed is the installation of a plugin plus the RXTX (at least...Tags: debugging, Eclipse, tips
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Sunday, April 19th, 2015
Rohit Gupta has written a Python command line tool to merge several PDFs generated by Eagle into one for easier printing when using toner transfer method. He calls is BoardMerge and you can download it from Rohit's website. Via the contact form.Tags: BoardMerge, Eagle, PDF merge, python
Posted in Eagle, open source, software, tools | No Comments »
Monday, April 6th, 2015
Sixuniform has released YOUSDR v0.1 Alpha, an RTL-SDR webinterface for Raspian / Raspberry Pi. This is a web-wrapper for the rtl-sdr softwares. Currently it commands rtl_fm, rtl_tcp and dump1090. The software can be downloaded from its GitHub. The instructions on the GitHub page show how to set it up on...Tags: remote control, RTL-SDR, YOUSDR
Posted in open source, RF, SDR, software | No Comments »
Thursday, March 26th, 2015
The Energia team announces the availability of version 0101E0015: The Energia team is very happy to announce the release of Energia 15. This release aside from bug fixes adds support for the new Texas Instruments ARM Cortex M4F based MSP432 LaunchPad. This time around it’s a bit different though....Tags: Energia
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Thursday, March 19th, 2015
A followup to the Embrio - a visual programming environment for Arduino post. Ezra Schwartz, maker of Embrio, just posted a new version of the software with better functionality for writing Arduino code right into a visual node: Embrio lets you create the logic and structure of your programs with it's powerful...Tags: Arduino, programming
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Monday, March 9th, 2015
As a follow up to the PCB layout design with DipTrace post, KF5OBS blogged about on how to set-up DipTrace to export a PCB layout correctly for Dirty PCB: Dirty PCB offers – as the name implies – dirt cheap PCB manufacturing. The trick is a very low profile and a...Tags: DipTrace, pcb, PCB layout
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Friday, March 6th, 2015
KF5OBS writes: DipTrace is a sophisticated schematic and PCB layout software. I had it installed on my computer for over a year but have never really used it. Since I needed a super simple PCB for some 78XX / 79XX type linear regulators, I decided to use this opportunity for...Tags: DipTrace, PCB layout
Posted in PCBs, software | 4 Comments »
Monday, February 23rd, 2015
Baoshi writes: Writing peripheral initialization code is probably the most tedious work in embedded development. It always successfully stops me from starting a new project. I believe engineers at STMicroelectronics share the same pain. Therefore they created STM32Cube firmware and STM32CubeMX graphical configuration tool, which turns numerous key strokes and...Tags: how-to, STM32CubeMX, tool
Posted in software | 3 Comments »
Monday, February 9th, 2015
rheslip made this Teensy SDR project, that is available at Github: I managed to get the Teensy SDR in an enclosure over the Christmas holidays - now its starting to look like a radio! The enclosure is a plastic Hammond. Front and rear panels are PCB material and I added...Tags: SDR, software defined radio
Posted in Arduino, software | No Comments »
Thursday, January 15th, 2015
If you experiment with electronic music, you've probably heard of Korg's latest addition to their Volca line known as the Volca Sample. The volca sample is a sample sequencer that lets you edit and sequence up to 100 sample sounds in real time. It lets you recreate the characteristics of...Tags: audio sampler, Caustic Editor, Korg, music, Single Cell Software, Volca Sample
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Sunday, January 11th, 2015
When it comes to the RTL-SDR dongle, there's an app for that! (At least a Chrome app.) The Chrome app store has the updated RTL-SDR Radio Receiver app available for download. It's free and open source and is written 100% in Javascript. "Receive and listen to FM and AM radio...Tags: Chrome, Javascript, receiver app, RTL-SDR
Posted in code, open source, SDR, software | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
Here's a different and unconventional way to view a VHS tape (as if VHS tapes aren't considered unusual enough today). DogsRNiceMineCraft posted this video on YouTube showing video received using an RTL-SDR dongle. I got a VCR today and wanted to see if I could receive the signal from the...Tags: RF sniffing, RTL-SDR, TV Sharp, TV video
Posted in hacks, RF, SDR, software | 4 Comments »
