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Building Blackmagic Probe on Windows

By Sid Price Posted on March 24, 2020 Posted in BlogPost, Crowd Sourcing, Debugging, embedded, Makers, Mind Share, WDBP Project

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 …

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Beware dormant test code!

By Sid Price Posted on September 22, 2019 Posted in BlogPost

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 …

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Tagged with: ctxLink, Debugging

Wireless Debug Probe

By Sid Price Posted on July 28, 2019 Posted in BlogPost

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 …

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Android Studio, Flutter, and Firebase-Auth

By Sid Price Posted on February 24, 2019 Posted in Android, Android Programming, BlogPost

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 …

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Excellent plugin for Kicad

By Sid Price Posted on November 7, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, Design, Kicad, Makers

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 …

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Developers, improve your efficiency

By Sid Price Posted on October 28, 2018 Posted in BlogPost

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 …

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Tagged with: android, android studio

Android Developer Tutorials

By Sid Price Posted on August 27, 2018 Posted in Android, Android Programming, BlogPost

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 …

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Tagged with: android, android studio, Sid Price, sjp_software, video tutorials

Debugging an Android Widget

By Sid Price Posted on August 19, 2018 Posted in Android, BlogPost, Debugging

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 …

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Tagged with: android, Debugging, Tools

Accessing the STM32 System Bootloader

By Sid Price Posted on August 13, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, embedded, Makers, Mind Share

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 …

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Best technology is often the looser

By Sid Price Posted on July 2, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, Mind Share

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 …

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