Well there’s the title! I’ve been working on creating a pretty simplistic half duplex data transmission through PWM. The protocol is currently half duplex because I’ve only just started writing it! Currently, data is encoded into the pulse width of the square wave sent between the two microcontrollers (currently an STM32F051 discovery for the receiver and […]
The ADC in the STM32F0 series of microcontrollers is pretty advanced compared to similar costing equivalents, offering features such as continuous conversion, internally and software triggered conversions, channel scanned conversions, amongst much more! This isn’t a proper tutorial but I will be posting the code on how to achieve such a task and how I […]
Fueling off my desire for wearable navigation, I’ve decided to try and use the simple HMC5883L magnetometer module to create a simple non tilt-compensated compass. As the name suggests, it currently only works on flat surfaces and tilting it will give a pretty erroneous result! None the less, on a flat surface it pretty much […]
Well! Its been a long time since my last blog post. Its been a pretty hectic year so far with work and general life. I need to start training for the various Bladesoc marathons that we have planned (Le Mans and Preston!) so I’ve not had much blog time to do general electronics! So where […]
Well after feeling quite happy at my current level with the ST microcontrollers, I decided to learn a completely new and upcoming architecture – the MSP430 series of microcontrollers, designed by TI for low power applications. They have loads of features, including advanced timers, ADCs and a 16bit architecture. More info can be found on […]
Well after popular demand (lol two people…)! I’ve revisited some EXTREMELY old code and got it working for my ILI9163 LCD, its not pretty, its code I’ve not used in a LONG time and probably won’t use for a long while more but as far as I know, the driver is pretty sound. Its uncommented […]
So today, I had my first lecture on VHDL. I’m not a massive fan of learning to code through lectures without doing but we have labs on it later in the year. I would by no matter consider myself a pro at VHDL coding but I’d like to think I have the slight grasps after […]
Yet another project with my STM32F0 discovery board… A simple capacitance meter! The value of capacitance can be determined by the time that it takes for a capacitor to charge through the resistor. A precise way to do this would involve using two comparators, 4 precision resistors (three for a precise biasing source and one […]
Well tonight has been productive! I’ve managed to get the DS1307 working with my STM32F0 and now the AM2302! I thought that I’d actually done a previous post on interfacing the DHT11 humidity and temperature sensor but it turns out I hadn’t! The method of operation and data transfer is pretty much the same so […]
One of the many things I bought a while back was a small PCB containing a DS1307 RTC (http://goo.gl/rfdL78) along with an EEPROM IC (not interfaced in this post…). The DS1307 as far as I know is the universal standard for RTCs offering BCD storage of time and date, along with some user accessible space. […]
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