For a Linux embedded training, I need to find something fun to plug on an AVR32 board. The board used for the training is a NGW100 board. I decided to try to use the I2C bus. I have several I2C stuff on the desk, but nothing really fun and I don’t want to solder a [...]
admin January 8th, 2012
I just received my mbed module. This little ARM device is pretty cool, and the associated tools works quite nice. Of course they cost a lot of money, I received mine for free for the mbed contest. Really kool no ? ;)
After the classic blink test, I decided to go for a network test. But [...]
admin November 7th, 2010
One of the most common way to interface a microcontroler to a computer used to be serial port. But right now, serial port have been replaced with USB on most computers. A common way to fix this issue is to use a USB to TTL converter or a USB to RS232 converter + MAX232. That’s [...]
admin September 11th, 2010
In my home, I have a bad TV antenna, so we use only the cable receiver to watch TV. But I have two TV sets. I decided to buy a video sender a couple of months ago, but never managed to get it working nicely. I bought a Thomson VS360U video sender. This one is [...]
admin August 21st, 2010
Recently I decided to daily switch my main computer off. This computer was usually on all time, and consume a lot of electricity. So, I switched to a really small computer for common task: ssh-server, wake on lan (for my main computer), VPN access and mail relay. This new computer consume 7watts but his specs [...]
admin July 26th, 2010
I bought a couple of months ago a little AVR Dragon card. My initial plan was to use it for debuging programs with the embbeded JTAG. But I run into several issue with that, mainly because the lack of doc on this topic. So, here we are ;)
The AVR Dragon is nice because you can [...]
admin November 30th, 2008
Like a lot of hobbits, I don’t really like to solder SMD. It’s hard to solder with a normal soldering iron (even this can be done), and hot air soldering station cost a little. (around 180 Euros shipping included)
I already talk to my friend Bernt about this. He says he already used a cheap gas [...]
admin July 9th, 2008
This is not the first time, I break a USB Drive. And I already heard some people complaining about the same stuff. But how is this possible ? Even if I use it a lot, memory and micro-controller are robust you know, no special reason for a failure (except of course some anormal write, but [...]
admin April 30th, 2008
I recently bought 2 LCD from jckrers ebay store. I have a good idea for this stuff, but first I need to run several tests. This LCD are fine and use the common KS108 controller.
My first thought was to use the avrlib, so I wired the LCD and started to use avrlib, but I quickly [...]
admin March 24th, 2008
Ok, my english exam is over .. waiting for the final result
I had a lot of stuffs on the way right now, so I hope to have the time to finish them before going on holidays here a little list:
A subwoofer (with a big 12″ woofer that goes damn low !
A subwoofer amp, this is [...]
admin July 11th, 2007