November, 2013
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 […]
Setting up the root user in Mac OS X
For information on how to enable the root user in Mac OS X Mavericks, see this tech note from Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14281 And for doing the same with OS X Mountain Lion, see this tech note: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11331
Backing up my BugZilla database
Now that I have bugzilla set up, my clients are starting to use it. It’s a very useful tool for logging bugs, feature requests and test results. The clients get kept up to date on what I’m doing, and I don’t have to remember every thing as it is all kept in the database. That […]
Installing BugZilla on OS X Mavericks – Updated
Finally I have gotten round to finishing the install of BugZilla on OS X Mavericks (OS X 10.9) and I’m pleased to say it is working well. There were several hurdles along the way, but the main one which kept bugzilla from running was that the MySql library, required by perl to access MySql was […]
Working with UTF8 Encoded strings in iOS
I designed a digital audio dock for a major client. The dock accepts both 30-Pin apple devices and Lightning-connector apple devices, in other words almost all iPods, iPhones and iPads. The dock has a network interface so that it can connect to, and be controlled by, other devices, such as another iOS device. The device […]
Microchip’s MPLAB X Gets an update. V1.95 Now available.
Microchip have released an update to their IDE, MPLAB X. MPLAB X IDE v1.95 is available now for download from here This seems to be a minor point release with the following main updates since v1.90 ICSP cable support for UNI/O SQTP in Aux Memory support Harmony quick start and Forum links Enum label support within […]
Cypress drops PSoC5 Support from latest tools.
Recently Cypress Semiconductor released the long awaited version 3.0 of it’s PSoC Creator development tool suite. This is an update I’ve been waiting for, it finally brings to Creator some features which other, older, IDEs have had for many years, including: Auto-complete; go to definition; a code explorer window; inline diagnostics; disabled code identification and automatic […]
ICD 3 vs Mac OS X Mavericks
Well, despite my earlier success I have to declare that, for me at least, The Microchip ICD-3 In Circuit Debugger is not compatible with OS X Mavericks. I have opened a ticket with Microchip tech Support, so we’ll see what transpires.
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