Kinetis Drone: First Test Flights

Over the weekend, I finally have repaired the broken ESC (see “Kinetis Drone: Graupner ESC S3055 Failure“). Time to run some first test flights :-).

Kinetis Drone Flying Tests

Kinetis Drone Flying Tests

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McuOnEclipse Components: 08-Nov-2015 Release

Time is flying fast, time for another McuOnEclipse components release on SourceForge with the following main changes and features:

  1. New component for Segger RTT makes adding a console communication interface super easy (and fast!)
  2. RTT support for the command line Shell component
  3. RTT component used for Percepio FreeRTOS Tracing
  4. Updated USB component, support for USB CDC blocking/waiting and endpoint configuration
  5. Updated FreeRTOS to V8.2.3, memory heap selection improved and setting for time slicing
  6. RingBuffer implements a Delete() method
  7. Extended Kinetis SDK support in components, added by default
Segger RTT Console

Segger RTT Console

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Kinetis Drone: Remote Controller with SUMD

The bad news: my ESC (see “Kinetis Drone: Graupner ESC S3055 Failure“) for my Kinetis drone is still not repaired :-(. Anyway, I have plenty of other things to make for my drone project. One is to work on the remote controller:

Test Setup

Test Setup

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All Saints’ Day Sunday Morning

Halloween is not my thing: it is more like a carnival, and too much commercialized. I more like the day after that one: The All Saints’ Day. A day where we commemorate the ones who have passed from us. Early this Sunday morning I went up to the mountains to get out of the sea of fog and to watch a beautiful sunrise:

All Saints Morning Cross

All Saints Morning Cross

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Tutorial: lwip with FreeRTOS and the Freescale FRDM-K64F Board

This tutorial is about how to create a lwIP project with FreeRTOS using the Kinetis SDK V1.3.0 with Kinetis Design Studio on the Freescale FRDM-K64F board.

FRDM-K64F Board with lwIP running

FRDM-K64F Board with lwIP running

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