Microcontrollers

Dave takes a look at the ST STM32 L1 series low power ARM chips, and gets a cheap STM32L152C development board up and running with the IAR Embedded workbench compiler and STLINK/V2 interface. Also a look at the STMcubeMX code initialisation application. 32L152CDISCOVERY Schematic & User Manual PIC32MX Forum HERE …

Dave takes a look at the Orange Pi One $10 single board 4 ARM Cortex A7 processor computer and compares it to the Raspberry Pi 2. Coving the install of the ARMbian flavour of Debian. Beware the security bug! And what is the power/watt efficiency between the two? Schematic HERE …

Dave and David2 battle to get an old Microchip PICkit 3 working with MPLAB X talking to Dave’s new product. A tale of misery, rabbit holes, Murphy, facepalms, and ultimately success. You get a warts and all journey. A good example of how a tool that should have just worked, …