Electronics
LED Matrix built and working
I’ve assembled and coded up the LED Matrix shield that I designed. It’s running on an Intel Galieo, but should also be compatible with other Arduino UNO Compatible boards. Assembly pictures and video demos are included.
Time travel will happen – and I can prove it.
About 14 years ago, around about the year 2000, I wrote an article for a magazine called ‘Develop‘ – it was a magazine for developers in the console game industry. The magazine printed it, but they called it the ‘the Oddview’ and the editor (Owain Bennallock) followed it with a sly comment that said something […]
Virtual becomes Reality – The Galileo Project.
I few weeks ago I posted about how I designed an enclosure for Galileo boards. I used the ‘cloud’ based software known as Autodesk Fusion 360 to do the design work. I then ‘shared’ the data with a colleague in another country part of the UK. He very kindly printed the design out on his […]
Internet of Things DevKit build for Galileo
Intel have released instructions on how to build the DevKit Linux image for Galileo, which includes all the required developer tools and access to Intel’s package repository. Check out the build instructions here (PDF). I’ve built the image and tested it and will make an image of the SD Card available on this blog later.
Getting Galileo on WiFi
A guide to getting Galileo on WiFi The Intel Galileo development board has a full sized PCIe connector on the bottom. Using this connector you can add a WiFi card to Galileo, so that it can joint your WiFi network, or even create one of it’s own. Galileo is compatible with a number of WiFi […]
Getting to know Galileo
The Intel Galileo is a development kit produced by Intel, based around the Intel Quark X1000 SoC. The Quark X1000 is a Pentium-class 32 Bit ‘System On Chip’ device, with intel’s ISA architecture. Lets take a look at it’s features and get to know it a bit.
Logitech M570 Teardown and Repair
The Logitech M570 is one of very few thumb-operated trackballs on the market. For anyone, like me, who suffers from RSI in the wrist, it is an ideal replacement for a mouse as it removes all the moving back and forth – your wrist stays in one position and does not move when using it. […]
Ink-Jet printed PCBs anyone?
I read in Electronics Weekly this week that the boffins over at Georgia Tech, alongside people from Microsoft Research and Tokyo University have developed a method of ‘printing’ circuit boards using a standard off the shelf ink-jet printer. They basically took an empty ink cartridge and filled with an electrically conductive ink made with ‘silver […]
Using Creator v3.0 to target PSoC5 and PSoC5 LP
Recently Cypress updated their PSoC Creator tool suite to version 3.0. V3.0 Brought with it some great new features, such as: Auto Complete Goto Definition Code Explorer Inline Diagnostics Disabled code highlighting Automatic indenting And loads of other productivity and compiler improvements. However as I have mentioned in this post before, the tool dropped support for […]
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