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Collection of Byte Magazines 1983-1995
I have a collection of Byte Magazines from 1983-1995 mostly complete. Any interest before they go to the dump? Free but need to pick up. Lot of history in these!! Thanks, Best Regards, Dave PS:...
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NanoPi A64 working with FA-CAM500B camera on Buildroot compiled Linux
Hi, After quite a lot of unsuccessful attempts, I have finally got working configuration for Buildroot that allows to stream image from FA-CAM500B camera connected to NanoPi A64. That should allow low...
 
Because life is not just a valley of tears, there are solutions;
Because life is not just a valley of tears, there are solutions; Master AWELE DAH ZEDOAGA brings you: Rituals of Love or Hatred, for wealth or bankruptcy, power or decay, life a nd why not ... death...
 
Scooter software bug applies brakes hard, sends hipsters airborne
Gotta love it:
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Remote Debugging
I am working on a test fixture that uses an RS-232 port for control. I tra vel a lot and don't want to have to drag the test fixture around with me. Some time ago I was working with an eval board via...
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Ceramic capacitor failure
I am seeing some failures of ceramic capacitors in a product I designed. Th ese are 1206 22uf 10V ceramic caps, we do not specify a manufacturer. The c aps are on the output of a 3.3V 1amp 2MHz dc to...
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Serial Port Emulation
I'm working to improve a test program for the hardware I use to test some b oards I make. These boards are tested using a test fixture controlled over an RS-232 port from the PC. So I don't need to...
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How to avoid a task not executed in a real-time OS?
Hi, I was asked the question in the title some time ago. I had some real-time embedded system experience but with RTOS. A watch-dog can avoid a task not called in a real-time system. But in a RTOS,...
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dsPIC33CH Vs dsPIC33F divide.
The new dsPIC33CH parts have a 6 cycle divide whereas the older dsPIC33F takes 18 cycles. The number of cycles is not data dependent. So I guess more Silicon for fewer cycles, but used how? Cheers
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[OT] SQLite
This hit the news yesterday: SQLite contained a remote code execution bug. According to the ZDNet article the bug has been fixed as of v3.26.0 released December 1st. If your application uses SQLite,...
 
snprintf return value
I usually have a static buffer and I don't want to use a dynamic buffer. char buf[BUFLEN]; I have to construct a long string, and it is quite easy to call snprintf multiple times: int n = 0; n +=...
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"Device-to-smartphone" and "smartphone-to-device" technologies
Nowadays the poor embedded developer faces new challenges that go outside the limited world of C/C++ program on a resource constrained hardware. Now the hardware isn't so resource constrained...
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Serial terminal (VT100) with automatic save specified data
For a test setup, I have created a small UI using the serial port connected to a VT100 capable terminal (Tera Term). I use the VT100 commands to create a "nice" (for certain values of nice) looking...
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Makefile or not?
What do you really use for embedded projects? Do you use "standard" makefile or do you rely on IDE functionalities? Nowadays every MCU manufacturers give IDE, mostly for free, usually based on Eclipse...
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Crystal Load Capacitance
I am using a Atmel4SD32C processor. For the main clock crystal Atmel specifiey the following requirements: CLEXT Maximum External Capacitor on XIN and XOUT 17 pF Allowed Crystal Capacitance Load From...
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