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Bluetooth with the Freedom Board

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I’m working now on a lecture robot project using my Freedom Board. And for this I need a wireless communication. I already have IEEE802.15.4 (SMAC) working, but I wanted to add Bluetooth as a low-cost option. I have found an inexpensive Bluetooth module which is available for only around $4-8 which we use in another university class project. The module is an AT command module: that means the microcontroller communicates with AT serial commands with the module, and the Bluetooth stack itself runs on the module. In a minimal configuration I only need 3.3V, GND, TX and RX plus a CMD (Command) pin:

Bluetooth Module

Bluetooth Module

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Creating and using Libraries with ARM gcc and Eclipse

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In ‘A Library with ARM gcc and Eclipse’ I was using the CodeWarrior MCU10.3 beta version to create a library project. At that time I had to do things manually. Now with the final MCU10.3 there is an option in the New Project Wizard which makes things easier:

Library Creation

Library Creation

This will create a library (or better: an archive) with gcc for me. But how to use it from another project?

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Tutorial: ADC with the Freedom Board

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Unlike other boards from Freescale, the FRDM-KL25Z has no potentiometer or analog components on it. But in many applications an ADC conversion is needed, so here we go with a tutorial reading in an external potentiometer with Eclipse, CodeWarrior and Processor Expert. For this tutorial I have a 10k Ohm linear potentiometer connected to the Freedom board:

Linear potentiometer with the FRDM-KL25Z

Linear potentiometer with the FRDM-KL25Z

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Eclipse Workspace Tips

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Usually, one of the first things I see if I launch Eclipse is this dialog:

Select a Workspace Dialog

Select a Workspace Dialog

Actually, that ‘workspace’ thing is one of the most important things in Eclipse to understand. To mess around it can cause a lot of pain. So I have collected some ‘lessons learned’ around workspaces.

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Eclipse Spell Checker

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One of the nice things of modern IDE’s are: they offer many extras for free. Many times it is related to programming and coding. But I love as well the ones which makes things easier and better which is not directly related to the executed code. One thing Eclipse offers is an on-the-fly spell-checking, similar to Microsoft Word:

Spellchecked Sources

Spellchecked Sources

Hovering over the text offers me to correct the flagged error:

Initialization vs. Initialisation

Initialization vs. Initialisation

But wait: is that example not spelled correctly?

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Enabling the Expert Level in Processor Expert

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Processor Expert in Eclipse and CodeWarrior is cool thing, and acts as the ‘expert’ for anything around the microcontroller used. But by default, it is acting in the ‘Basic’ level only.

Component Inspector Levels

Component Inspector Levels

But there are ways to get it to the Expert level :-).

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Live View for Variables and Memory

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Debugging is usually a ‘stop-inspect-continue’ process. That does not work very well for watching a system which continuously changes its state. For this usually I toggle an LED, or write things to the console to watch with a human eye what is going on. But there is something very powerful in the CodeWarrior debugger too: to display variables and memory content while the target is running.

Variable Live View

Variable Live View

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