Project update #1
When I started this blog it was partly to track the progress of my latest project, briefly mentioned here. Over the month or two following the original post a number of issues were discovered with the original design. It used …
Information Sources
There is so much new technology to stay abreast of these days that we all need a little help. I find there are a number of YouTube channels that can help with this task. The Open Source and Maker communities …
Follow-up to support post
After having a rather poor experience with the Microchip online support systems (see this post) I finally made contact with a US-based support engineer and in a matter of a couple of days he resolved the issues I was having. …
Semiconductor support … or lack of it
My current project uses an Atmel (Microchip these days) WINC1500 Wi-Fi module. The original part I had chosen for my project proved to be difficult to handle during prototype assembly and this made me nervous for production yield, hence the …
Bitten by SI units
The USA is one of a few countries that have not fully adopted SI units (sometimes called Metric units) of measurements across the board. Generally for people working in the USA on electronics projects it is a small issue. We …
The journey to a new product
Over the next several months I will documenting the development of a new tool for embedded system software debugging. The tool will be launched in 2018 on the Crowd Supply web site. The design, when completed will be Open Source …