The Winter Solstice day ended with a spectacular sunset sky:
Red Evening Sky
Happy Solsticing 🙂
Winter Solstice: Good Evening, Red Sunset Sky!
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Adding a Touch LCD to the Raspberry Pi 2
I use my Raspberry Pi’s usually with an external VGA or HDMI monitor. How cool would it be to use a touch LCD screen instead?
Raspberry Pi 2 with 7 Inch Touchscreen
Winter Solstice: Good Morning, Red Morning Sky!
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The shortest day of the year started with a beautiful sunrise. Good morning everyone!
Red Morning Sky
Happy Raising 🙂
My First BBQ Smoked Turkey
For years a coworker is using a BBQ smoker to prepare a turkey for Silvester dinner. After hearing him so many times about how excellent this is, time to try this out myself. I cannot wait for the year-end, so I have put a full size turkey into my smoker today 🙂
Turkey after one hour
Linting with Eclipse and the GNU ARM Embedded Launchpad Compiler
For a space project we have to make sure that things are not failing while our hardware orbits around the Mother Earth. Therefore we are using different static and dynamic analysis tools, and one of it is using PC-lint from Gimpel to catch as many errors and bugs as possible. For that project, we are using Eclipse with the GNU ARM Embedded (launchpad) ARM compiler and Eclipse as IDE with the GNU ARM Eclipse plugins. There are commercial plugins available for linting with Eclipse (e.g. Linticator), but with a few tweaks it is possible to lint with Eclipse free-of-charge. So this article is about how to lint an Eclipse (Freescale/NXP Kinetis Design Studio) project with PC-Lint.
Lint messages in Eclipse
From Zero to NOOBS: Starting with Raspberry Pi Zero
My Raspberry Pi Zero arrived last week (see “A Raspberry Pi for $5! What are your decision factors?“), and finally I have found an hour to try it out. Because the ‘bare board’ $5 version was sold out at that time, I ordered a package with 8GB SD card, micro USB cable and mini HDMI adapter. That way I had all the needed cables, including the mini HDMI adapter cable:
Raspberry Pi Zero
Morning Trails
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Dealing with a nasty flu, so I did not sleep very well. The updside of that is that I woke up early to see this beautiful sunrise over the Alps, with trails from airplanes high above….
Morning Trails
I hope I can fully recover over the weekend.
Happy Trailing 🙂
Knowledge
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“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
Margaret Fuller
I very much like that one from Margaret Fuller because this does not apply to all of us working in the education industry: so many engineers have so much knowledge, but do not share it, as if they are afraid that they will lose something? Sharing knowledge is an excellent way to increase your own knowledge too.
Tutorial: FreeRTOS Projects with Kinetis SDK V1.3 and the SDK Project Generator
This tutorial describes how to create a Kinetis SDK V1.3 project using the Freescale project generator in Kinetis Design Studio.
project generator
If you are in a hurry
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“If you are in a hurry, go slowly.”
– Konfuzius
Konfuzius, I hear you. But so hard to follow that advice. Simply too much going on right now. But I’ll give it a try….
MCU on Eclipse 