We did not receive much snow this winter in the lower areas. I really love this linden tree (Tilia, or ‘lime tree’ in some areas) up above a hill, and it always looks different.
Year End Linden Tree
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Yearly Archives: 2018
Freelink LPC4322JET100 based Debug Circuit on NXP i.MX RT1064-EVK Board
As noticed in “First Steps with the NXP i.MX RT1064-EVK Board” there is a new LPC4322 based debug interface on the RT1064-EVK board.
LPC4322JET100 based Debug Interface
Using Camera Modules with NXP i.MX RT10xx EVK
In “First Steps with the NXP i.MX RT1064-EVK Board” I mentioned that the board kit came with a camera module, but it was unclear to me which module was included in the kit. I know it now: it is the ON Semiconductor MT9M114 :-).
Image from the MT9M114
First Steps with the NXP i.MX RT1064-EVK Board
I always reserve time between Christmas and New Year to get my hands on technology pieces which I might not have any time otherwise. Among different things I ordered the NXP i.MX RT1064-EVK board from Mouser.com, and it arrived right before Christmas. Time to have it unboxed and started….
i.MX RT1064 Processor
Christmas Tree Robot Challenge
The last challenge of the robotics course of this Fall semester had to be something special: This time it was about a ‘beauty contest’ followed by a line following challenge. Motto: Merry Christmas Time!
Lasercut Angel Sweets Box
For this Christmas time I wanted to create a special gift box for a special neighbor family.
Christmas Gift Box Wrapped
Variable Width Character Encoding in Eclipse Editor
Dealing with variable width character encoding as with UTF-8 is pretty much a standard these days, at least in the Desktop programming world. This is not so much true when programming embedded devices and microcontroller. In any case, Eclipse has you covered. This is especially helpful dealing with non-ASCII character codes in comments:
Comment with UTF-8 in Eclipse
New NXP MCUXpresso IDE V10.3.0 Release
Friday this week NXP has released a new version of their flagship IDE: the MCUXpresso IDE V10.3.0. The version number indicates an incremental update from the earlier V10.2.1, but there are many exciting features and new features which make me switch my lecture material to this new IDE for the next semester.
MCUXpresso IDE V10.3.0
Playing Zork with FreeRTOS on ARM in three different Ways
You might wonder what ‘Zork‘ is? Zork is one of the first and earlist fictive computer games, written around 1977 and 1979, written in MDL on a DEC PDP-10 by members of the MIT Dynamic Modelling group (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork). I believe the first time I have played Zork was around 1984 on a Commodore 64.
Zork
Using GDB Server Monitor Commands from Eclipse GDB Console
With Eclipse as IDE it is very easy to debug an application on a board. Still sometimes it is useful to get one level down and control the GDB server directly.
Monitor Flash Download
MCU on Eclipse 