Building Blackmagic Probe on Windows
A while ago I wrote a blog describing how to build the firmware for the Blackmagic Probe (BMP) on Windows. Since that time I have crowdfunded a wireless version of BMP, my ctxLink debug probe, since I do all my …
Beware dormant test code!
Just recently I came across a bug in my ctxLink Wireless Debug Probe. I was doing some testing with a large project, something I had not really done extensively, occasionally during loading the code for flashing into the MCU the …
Wireless Debug Probe
For some time I have been working on a Wi-Fi connected Cortex-M debug probe and there have been several prototype PCBs designed and built. Last week I received the latest prototypes from PCBWay and the first of that batch of …
Android Studio, Flutter, and Firebase-Auth
Flutter is a new mobile application development framework, it is open source, and provides a common codebase for both Android and iOS development. I have a project that was originally started with Android Studio and Java, just for the Android …
Excellent plugin for Kicad
One of the issues I have encountered when testing circuit boards is finding where on the board a particular part is located. Typically I open the PCB layout (Kicad PCBnew) on my computer and use the zoom feature to scroll …
Developers, improve your efficiency
All developers spend large amounts of time waiting for their projects to compile/build. If you are an Android developer then you are probably acutely aware of this. Build times for Android apps can take a long time once the app …
Android Developer Tutorials
When trying to learn about new features and components that are available for Android development a search of YouTube reveals hundreds, if not thousands of video tutorials. Unfortunately many are of such poor quality they are just noise hiding the …
Debugging an Android Widget
While working on my Udacity Android Developer Nanodegree recently I ran into an issue with the widget that was required as a part of a course project design. The app being developed was a recipe app and part of the requirements …
Accessing the STM32 System Bootloader
The STM32 range of Microcontrollers have a built in bootloader that may be used to update the firmware running on the MCU. Depending upon the STM32 variant being used this update may be done using a USART, USB, or SPI …
Best technology is often the looser
Once again I find that the best technology doesn’t always prevail. In the mid-1970s Sony launched the Betamax video format into the consumer marketplace and the “Videotape Wars” began; in spite of the superior quality of the video recordings made …