I needed to drive WS2812B RGB LED or NeoPixel strips from my MCU. I quite like and use STM32 so at first I looked around for existing solutions. There are a few ways to driver LEDs. Since I’m familiar and experienced with DMA I prefered solutions which would lower the CPU load. I will write about pros and cons of different approcaches based on my own needs.
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For first serious FPGA project I had to wait a while for laptop LCD. I scored quite good LCD panel which had enormous resolution for my first try. It took many hours just to turn the display on with white screen.
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This example is using ESP8266 chip with special espduino_bridge firmware and espduino Arduino library on AVR MCU.
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Some time ago I needed simple plain C MQTT library for my TIVA LM3S6965 board (former Stellaris, former LuminaryMicro). I started rewriting library from Fan Yilun who written nice C++ library for MBed.
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On this page I put findings related to my RTL8710 Cortex M3 Wifi board.
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MicroCmd is a small battery-operated pocket device. This is the first time I used ARM LM3S5632 chip in my construction - there’s nothing to be afraid of as I figured out:)
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After half year of prepairing and sourcing necessary parts I’ve started to design hardware clone of Uzebox game platform.
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I’ve ordered one interesting module from DealExtreme. Today I’ve ported code from Intel x51 example sourcecode.
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