Summary/TLDR This looks to just-barely-doable on the chosen microcontroller (4 kB RAM and 32 kB FLASH).Expected RAM usage is 0.5 kB to 3.0 kB, and FLASH between 10 kB to 32 kB FLASH.There are accelerometers available that add 20 to 30 cents USD to the...
I re-wrote the fractal-generation code in assembly to see what gains I could make. Just a simple manual translation of the code came out to 560 bytes (320 instructions), as opposed to the 1019 bytes of compiled C. It produces the same output as the C...
Big code update coming soon plus the new v3 PRO PCB with many changes. My main issue with all my projects is the display. I develop using 128*64 SSD1306 but then I decide to go with 96*64 full color OLED. Managing the code with all those display.setTextSize,display.update...
DC28 AND!XOR BENDERPISS CTF Stats 132 Players on the Scoreboard / 5 Fake Hacked Players / 60 Flags Possible 21 Main Challenges 3 Bonus Challenges 36 Easter Eggs Concept Our CTF has never been about cutthroat competition, its about exploration,...
This log will give an in-depth report on the testing and ciruit alterations that were made to get the analog input signal circuit working as desired. The alterations were able to be kept to simple component swaps, so future boards can be ordered with...
I finished the tedious but not too arduous task of calibrating the SS49E Linear Hall Effect Sensors. What does this mean. Well I run a small test program that I wrote that detects the presence of a tile and emits the location of the sensor and the value...
I won't ruin the surprise about what feature I'm working on right now for VGATonic (it's a crazy one), but I needed to add a font. Let me rephrase - a tiny font. Let me be more specific - the most space efficient font possible.My searching first led...
What is your excuse? This header title of this section was supposed to be separate post on its own. One of the first things that surprised me when I started working on DB6502 version 1 design was the general hesitation for SMT soldering among beginner...
Just over a week of chatting with ChatGPT-4 and I have working code! At least it works on wokwi.com... I still need to load it to the real hardware. It works, but there are a few things I don't like:The array of "all leds" doesn't include the simon...
Robert Wolff Hello @All - My name is Robert Wolff and I work Linaro on the 96Boards team!!! I started off with Linaro as a Technical Writer, and now I am Community Manager for the 96Boards program. I maintain several org and repositories...
[hooray for vertical videos... ] I had a Blackberry Curve a number of years ago and liked the keyboard. Yay tiny buttons! Sadly, I didn't see @WooDWorkeR's #PIMP (Personal Information Manager & Pager) project until I'd already torn into...