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Why everyone should be using Git

By Sid Price Posted on May 6, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, embedded Tagged with Debugging, Tools

I am a long-time user of source code management tools, for many years I used Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS). I tried several times to understand and use Git but found the learning curve rather steep and went back to my …

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Project Update #2

By Sid Price Posted on April 29, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, embedded, WDBP Project

Just received the first two pre-production prototypes of the Wireless Debug Probe (WDBP) from MacroFab. After initial inspection and power-up I am so far very pleased with the quality of the work done. There are a few firmware issues to …

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Transitioning to using SMT components

By Sid Price Posted on April 22, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, embedded, WDBP Project

For several decades I have designed, built, and tested my own PCBs for several products/projects. During all of that time I made use of traditional “through-hole” mounting components. Beyond the schematic capture and PCB design software no special tools were …

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More on interrupts and atomic operations

By Sid Price Posted on March 18, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, embedded, WDBP Project

In my previous post I wrote about interrupts and atomic operations in embedded systems. After getting bitten myself with just such an issue I thought I would write about the details of what I just experienced on my current project. …

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Interrupts, atomic variables, and the “volatile” keyword

By Sid Price Posted on March 11, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, embedded, WDBP Project

I have been trying to track down a particularly tricky problem on my Wireless Debug Probe over the last few days. When embedded systems begin to perform in strange, apparently illogical, ways the culprit is usually related to interrupts disrupting …

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Project update #1

By Sid Price Posted on February 25, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, WDBP Project

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 …

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Information Sources

By Sid Price Posted on February 11, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, Crowd Sourcing, Makers

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 …

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Follow-up to support post

By Sid Price Posted on January 21, 2018 Posted in BlogPost

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. …

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Semiconductor support … or lack of it

By Sid Price Posted on January 3, 2018 Posted in BlogPost

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 …

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Bitten by SI units

By Sid Price Posted on November 30, 2017 Posted in BlogPost

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 …

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