There is no special option in Kinetis Design Studio ‘New Project Wizard’ (NPW) to create a library (or archive). But it is really easy to create a library project.
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Creating a Library with Kinetis Design Studio
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Category Archives: Embedded
Updated Percepio Tracealyzer and Trace Library to Version V2.7.0
Percepio has recently released the v2.7 version of Tracealyzer. This is a major upgrade from the v2.6 version which I have used so far: time to upgrade my Trace component for FreeRTOS to the latest and greatest v2.7!
FreeRTOS+Trace View (V2.7)
Shell Component with History Function
Thanks to the contribution from [francescoaru], the Shell component has now a history function:
Shell with History
USB with the Freescale FRDM-K22F Board
The FRDM-K22F is one of the latest members of the Freedom board families: 512 KByte Flash, 128 KB RAM and the usual Freedom board components on it. Unfortunately, Freescale decided not to populate the micro-SD card connector on the board, so from this perspective the FRDM-K64F is more value for the money. But the board has USB, so this makes it still interesting. And this is what this post is about: Adding USB to the FRDM-K22F board in a few minutes…
Freescale FRDM-K22F Board
Code Coverage for Embedded Target with Eclipse, gcc and gcov
The great thing with open source tools like Eclipse and GNU (gcc, gdb) is that there is a wealth of excellent tools: one thing I had in mind to explore for a while is how to generate code coverage of my embedded application. Yes, GNU and Eclipse comes with code profiling and code coverage tools, all for free! The only downside seems to be that these tools seems to be rarely used for embedded targets. Maybe that knowledge is not widely available? So here is my attempt to change this :-).
Or: How cool is it to see in Eclipse how many times a line in my sources has been executed?
Line Coverage in Eclipse
And best of all, it does not stop here….
Darth Vader Santa Claus Sumo Bot
As I have received multiple questions about that Darth Vader Santa Claus/Christmas robot in the Mini-Sumo competition last week, here are the details in case you want to build your own :-)…
Darth Vader Sumo Bot
Sumo with GoPro, and other Sumo Videos
Here are the videos and results of the Mini-Sumo competition held on 19-Dec-2014 in Horw, Switzerland:
- Winner full-autonomous tournament: “The:Flash”
- Winner semi-autonomous tournament: “Banana-Rob”
See “Infotronic WS2014 Sumo Robots are Ready!” for all the robot portraits.
Watching a Sumo Battle
Autonomous Christmas Lab 2014 Video
Video
The team at the Autonomous Systems Lab under Roland Siegwart has produced the 2014 Robotics Christmas video, enjoy!
Happy Christmasing 🙂
Tutorial: IoT Datalogger with ESP8266 WiFi Module and FRDM-KL25Z
In my earlier post “Tutorial: Web Server with the ESP8266 WiFi Module” I used the ESP8266 WiFi module to run a local web server. This is a cool way to control devices inside my network. But to use that web page from the internet, I would need to open up my router which I don’t want to do for obvious reasons. Why not going the other way: host the web page in the internet, and have my board communicating with that internet page? This is exactly what this hype around IoT (Internet of Things) is all about :-).
ThingSpeak Channel for ESP8266
Tutorial: Web Server with the ESP8266 WiFi Module
It has been a while since my first post about the ESP8266 (see “Cheap and Simple WiFi with ESP8266 for the FRDM Board“). The ESP8266 is a new inexpensive ($4.50) WiFi module which makes it easy to connect to the network or internet. Finally this week-end I have found the time to write up a tutorial:
how to implement a WiFi web server for the ESP8266 WiFi module and the Freescale FRDM-KL25Z board:
WSP8266 Web Server
FRDM-KL25Z with ESP8266 WiFi Module
MCU on Eclipse 