McuOnEclipse Components: 03-Feb-2015 Release

It has been a while since the last version, but finally there is a new release available on SourceForge, with the following highlights:

  • FreeRTOS V8.2.0 with task notification
  • New VS1053 component to play MP3 and MIDI data/files
  • Shell with command history support
  • Percepio Trace V2.7.0 for FreeRTOS
Components Release

Components Release

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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 Plus Trace View

FreeRTOS+Trace View (V2.7)

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Snow Plowing (Darth Vader) Sumo Bot

Finally, winter with lots of snow arrived in Switzerland. Getting up at 5am this morning to free up my front yard from the 25 cm snow which came down overnight, so I can drive my wife to work. She does not like driving in snow conditions, but it is fun for me :-). But lots of snow, I thought I could use a little helper bot:

Snow Plowing Sumo Bot

Snow Plowing Sumo Bot

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McuOnEclipse Components: 27-Dec-2014 Release

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):

  • Nordic Semiconductor nRF24L01+ component extended for shared SPI bus usage
  • SD_Card component can use AsynchroSerial component for Kinetis
  • FatFS has added v0.10c patches
  • FSL_USB_Stack: Host support for Kinetis K20D72 and support for FRDM-K22F (K22FN512)
  • FreeRTOS has added Timer API support

    SourceForge 2014-12-27 Release

    SourceForge 2014-12-27 Release

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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

Watching a Sumo Battle

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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

ThingSpeak Channel for ESP8266

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McuOnEclipse Components: 07-Dec-2014 Release

Over the last weeks, several contributions, extensions and fixes have been added to the McuOnEclipse components, so a new release is available on SourceForge.

  • Bug fix for RingBuffer.
  • Better FreeRTOS task debugging with gdb.
  • Better watchdog support with Shell component.
  • Additional properties for PercepipTrace.
  • New Utility function ScanDoubleQuotedString() to scan a double quoted string.
  • LCDHTA with additional cursor functions.
  • New devices supported in FSL_USB_Stack: K22FN1M (FRDM-K22F), KL24Z48M, USB host support for K22F120/K22FX512).
  • RNet with nRF24L01+ to deal better with overflow situations.
  • A new component FreeRTOS_Tasks to create FreeRTOS tasks.
FreeRTOS Tasks Component

FreeRTOS Tasks Component

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Tutorial: Playing MP3 Files with VS1053B and FRDM Board

I want to make some noise with this post!!! This tutorial is about adding music and sound capabilities to the Freescale Freedom board, and to have a lot of fun with it :-). I need this ability for a larger project working on for a while. But I thought I share that sub-part how to play sound files. So with this tutorial I can turn my Freescale Freedom board into a music or sound player :-). And adding sounds is a cool way for any project, and as the music is stored on an SD card it fits easily hours of music or sounds.

MP3 Player with FRDM-KL25Z

MP3 Player with FRDM-KL25Z and Adafruit Music Maker MP3 Shield

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