How to economize the used pins to manage bicolor leds on arduino (or other MCUs)
Yeah, sometimes the signals you can handle with Arduino (or others MCU) are not enough. But if you are using a bicolor led to see two different states of your system, you can play the following hack. This is... Read more
gigino comes with preburned optiboot and a test
Usually, as soon as I have soldered a PCB I want to see it working. So I though to burn into the ATMEGA328P-PU of the gigino kit also a test program, so you can see that your board is... Read more
gigino: a low cost prototyping board based on the Arduino project
Finally the first release of "gigino", our low cost Arduino prototyping board, is out. This is a preview of gigino: a low cost prototyping board based on the Arduino project. Read the full post (998 words, 8 images, estimated... Read more
A new developer board based on PIC18f27j53
In April 2011 I wrote about the PIC18F27J53 describing it like a monster for its capabilities, and I promise to build a development board with it. And now this board is here!!! The Pic18f27J53 has the following features: ... Read more
How to build your own kernel for Fedora 14
Building a custom kernel is one of the most important rites of passage for advanced Unices users. This process, while time consuming, will provide many benefits to your system. Unlike the GENERIC kernel, which must support a wide range... Read more
A pseudo serial sniffer for RS232 communications
All electronic devices, computers and micro controllers need to exchange data with other devices. One of the most used way, since 1969, is the serial transmission using the RS232 standard when the EIA defined it. Serial transmission is commonly... Read more
How to select odd (or even ) raws from a text file using the bash
Yesterday I had to select some raws (1, 5, 9, ….) from a text file. This has been a hard job because I was trying to solve the wrong problem…… Really, before coding you should analyze deeply your problem... Read more
Discovering hovercrafts
Hi All, we are beginning a new serie of articles about hovercrafts. In six months we are going to produce a really working RC hovercraft. This new serie of articles will be "Discovering hovercrafts". You can subscribe the feeds... Read more
How to install minicom on Mac OS X – Snow leopard
Minicom is a text-based modem control and terminal emulation program for Unix-like operating systems, originally written by Miquel van Smoorenburg, and modeled after the popular MS-DOS program Telix. Minicom includes a dialing directory, ANSI and VT100 emulation, an (external)... Read more
How to use the TCN75 temperature sensor with Arduino
In this short tutorial I'm going to show to you how to implement , in the Arduino UNO environment, the basic functionalities to work with the TCN75. Materials needed for this tutorial. 1 Arduino UNO board (naturally) Arduino IDE... Read more
Working with the TCN75 temperature sensor
How to use the TCN75 temperature sensor In this article I'm going to show to you how to use the TCN75 we have mounted on our boards. Temperature sensor and real time clock for Arduino A PIC 12f1840 developer... Read more
The decline of international Electronic Manufacturing Services in Italy, what are Italian Companies learning?
Written by Enrico Espinosa From the end of 80’s important international companies operating in electronics looked for partnership to outsource the manufacturing activities. The intent of multinational companies operating in the telecom, automotive, IT business, was to leave the... Read more
The new ISO C11 standard for the C language
On 8th December 2011, ISO has ratified and published as ISO/IEC 9899:2011 the new C11 (C1x) standard for the C programming language. The major changes from the previous standard (C99), as written in the wikipedia, are the following:... Read more
Working with the RTCC MCP 79410 RTCC (Real Time Clock with Calendar)
How to use the MCP79410 Real Time Clock In this article I'm going to show you how to use the MCP 79410 we have mounted on our boards. Temperature sensor and real time clock for Arduino A PIC 12f1840... Read more
Santa came…. with Untethered jailbreak
The dev-team has a gift for you.. : "@pod2g has created a terrific gift for iOS fans — an untethered 5.0.1 jailbreak for non-A5 devices! Many of you have already been following @pod2g’s blog where he’s been keeping everyone... Read more 3 ways to remove duplicate lines from a text file
One of the more diffcult job, while using the shell, is working with text files to filter their content. In the following few lines you will find 3 different ways to remove all the duplicate lines from a... Read more
Let it snow
Let it snow…. … and the snow was on. If you go on the google search engine and then, in the search field. you type "let it snow", a strange event happens on your browser…. You will see some... Read more
Twidge: A flexible way to gain the access to Twitter resources
Twidge is a full command-line client. It is designed to be useful when you’re sitting at a shell prompt. It’s also designed to work well with the Unix/POSIX/Linux shell scripting environment. It produces output in well-formed and easily-parsed ways,... Read more
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To provide more interaction to the blog we have put on a facebook page, this page will contain all the articles we will publish on the blog and at the same time your comments, news, questions etc etc. We... Read more
