This article is part of a ‘mini series’ about hidden gems, tips and tricks around Eclipse.
The topic of this one is how to quickly mark and show where a variable is used and defined in the code.
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Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Code Completion
This article is part of a ‘mini series’ about hidden gems, tips and tricks around Eclipse.
The topic of this one is how use Code Completion in the editor.
Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Open Declaration
This article is part of a ‘mini series’ about hidden gems, tips and tricks around Eclipse.
The topic of this one is how to show where a variable, function, … is declared or defined.
New Version
I’m making progress with the new ‘Billion Light‘ modules (aka V2): the new design is more modular and easier to build and assemble and still looks awesome with the moving lights and clock hands:
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Eclipse Gems, Tips &Tricks: Show in System Explorer
This article is part of a ‘mini series’ about hidden gems, tips and tricks around Eclipse.
The topic of this one is how to show where a project is located on the host system.
Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: RT(F)M
This article is part of a ‘mini series’ about hidden gems, tips and tricks around Eclipse.
The topic of this one is how access more hints and tips in the manual.
Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Faster Debugger Start
This article is part of a ‘mini series’ about hidden gems, tips and tricks around Eclipse.
The topic of this one is how to accelerate the start of the debugger.
Using eInk display with LPC55S69 and OKdo E1 board
I have continued to explore my two hobbies (embedded systems, and Talking About The Weather) during these weeks of lock-down. I have finally got to the point that my Weather Station project can sit on the window shelf of my office, and show me the temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure on the attached eInk display.

In this blog I’m going to focus on driving that display.
Continue readingFrom C to C++: Converting Eclipse C Projects
Creating a new project with Eclipse for a microcontroller these days is fairly easy, and I have the choice if I want to start the project with C or C++:
Still the embedded microcontroller world is dominated by C and not C++. So while it is easy to start with a C++ project, most vendor provided example or tutorial project are C projects. So how can I transform such project to C++?
MCUXpresso SDK Tutorial – using I2C Driver on OKdo E1 board
In an earlier tutorial I introduced using I2C with the NXP LPC55S69 on OKdo E1 board to read a Bosch BME280 environmental sensor on a Mikroe Weather Click board. The MCUXpresso Clocks, Pins and Peripheral Config tools were used to get it running. It’s all for my Weather Station project that I’ve been working on during these months of lockdown. It is starting to take shape – as you can see from the photograph:

Now I really need to start reading and writing to the BME280 sensor, and that means using the I2C driver in the lpcxpresso55s69 SDK. And so this week I’ll provide a forensic examination of the most commonly-used I2C function call.
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