For a home automation project I need to know the room temperature and humidity percentage of the room air. Adafruit has an inexpensive DHT11 sensor from http://www.aosong.com which I decided to use for that project.
Test Setup for DHT11 Sensor
There is a new release of the McuOnEclipse components available on SourceForge, with the following main changes:
SourceForge McuOnEclipse
For everyone who wants to combine the power of Eclipse and Processor Expert with the IAR Embedded Workbench IDE, here is how to get them working side by side:
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It has been a while since the last version, but finally there is a new release available on SourceForge, with the following highlights:
Components Release
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)
Thanks to the contribution from [francescoaru], the Shell component has now a history function:
Shell with History
This post is overdue, as it is about the McuOnEclipse components which have been released already a few days ago. The highlights are (beside smaller updates and bug fixes):
SourceForge 2014-12-27 Release
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
Over the last weeks, several contributions, extensions and fixes have been added to the McuOnEclipse components, so a new release is available on SourceForge.
FreeRTOS Tasks Component
Travel is a hassle these days: airline on strike in Europe, long security lines at the airport, bumpy flight and long transfer to the hotel which is so tiny that the taxi driver missed it twice! Anyway, at least this time the reservation of the room *did* work. Arrived completely tired and with notebook batteries drained and empty. Unpacked the power adapter, ready to charge it up. Only to realize that the notebook power supply cable does not match the travel adapter plug! :-(:
Travel Power Adapter Mismatch
So I have packed the 3-pin notebook power supply instead my usual travel 2-pin one 😦
MCU on Eclipse 