Collaborate Disseminate
One of the selling points of the USB-C plug is that supposedly there is no way to incorrectly insert it. As [Pim de Groot] shows with a ‘Cursed USB-C 2.0 …read more Continue reading Cursed USB-C: When Plug Orientation Matters
If operating systems weren’t so useful, we would not be running them on every single of our desktop systems. In the same vein, embedded operating systems provide similar functionality as …read more Continue reading Getting Started With FreeRTOS And ChibiOS
Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, …read more Continue reading Unicode: On Building The One Character Set To Rule Them All
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986 was a life-altering event for many, ranging from people who had tuned in to watch the launch of a Space Shuttle with America’s first teacher onboard, to the countless people involved …read more
Continue reading Allan McDonald’s Legacy And The Ethics Of Decision-Making
When do you need to use a real-time operating system (RTOS) for an embedded project? What does it bring to the table, and what are the costs? Fortunately there are strict technical definitions, which can also help one figure out …read more
Continue reading Real-Time OS Basics: Picking The Right RTOS When You Need One
What is the easiest way to get audio from a WAV file into a line-level format, ready to be plugged into the amplifier of a HiFi audio set (or portable speaker)? As [Konrad Beckmann] demonstrated on Twitter, all you really …read more
Continue reading Audio Out Over A UART With An FTDI USB-To-TRS Cable
Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.
There was a time, not even that …read more
Continue reading BASIC: Cross-Platform Software Hacking Then And Now
Ever felt like what your MCU of choice misses is a way to read the electrical signals from your muscles? In that case [Deepak Khatri] over at Upside Down Labs has got your back with the BioAmp EMG Pill. Described …read more
Continue reading Listening In On Muscles With The BioAmp EMG Pill
Even though most of the world population couldn’t tell you what room or body temperature is in Fahrenheit, there are some places on this globe where this unit is still in common use. For people in those areas, it’s therefore …read more
Continue reading Ghidra Used to Patch Fahrenheit Into An Air Quality Meter
PCI Express (PCIe) has been around since 2003, and in that time it has managed to become the primary data interconnect for not only expansion cards, but also high-speed external devices. What also makes PCIe interesting is that it replaces …read more
Continue reading The Bus That’s Not A Bus: The Joys Of Hacking PCI Express