Category Archives: Microcontrollers

Bare bones programming of the TM4c123G ARM Cortex m4 microcontroller

Posted on April 14, 2016

This post will document one possible way of getting an LED blinking with the tm4c123g microcontroller. I’ll be using the TIVA C Launchpad for this example: A toolchain is needed to compile and link our code. I used this one: … Continue reading →

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Connecting sensors to the internet using an arduino and a raspberry pi

Posted on January 10, 2016

As part of the PlantBot project, I wanted a way to look at sensor data over the internet. These sensors are moisture, light and pressure. The main one is moisture, the other two were just added in because I had … Continue reading →

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atmega16u2 virtual serial example using LUFA Library

Posted on January 6, 2016

Sending data from a microcontroller is a pretty common requirement in a lot of the projects I work on. One way of doing it is sending serial data out from the uC to a serial to usb converter chip to … Continue reading →

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Laser cut wall lamp with ws2812b and arduino nano

Posted on October 28, 2015

5.6mm plywood cut using a 40w laser cutter. The ws2812b led strip is hooked up an an arduino nano using the neopixel library from adafruit : https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_NeoPixel . The program running in the video is one of the example sketches … Continue reading →

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