OLinuXino is a family of development boards designed by Olimex. The A13-OLinuXino board is based on AllWinner A13 processor with CortexA8 core; you can follow its design on the project’s official blogsite. Some days ago, Olimex developers were able to boot Android operating system:
I’ve already posted about a 3d printer funded by Kickstarter. Today I found, on Kickstarter again, an interesting project by ThingM, named blink(1). The idea behind it is very simple: an RGB led powered and controlled via USB. blink(1) is detected as an HID device by computers, so it doesn’t need any drivers being compatible with every O.S.; ThingM promised the controlling…
The BTSwitch project was developed to switch electric devices (lamps…) using an Android smartphone. In the following video, you can watch the device working, while in the next pages you can find some technical details… enjoy your reading!
When you create a new device, sometimes you need to give the same name to two or more pins (in the following example, an Arduino Pro Mini has two reset pins, RST). If you try to rename the second pin, you get an error: The solution is very simple: name the pin: name@number, for example RST@2: When…
Farnell kindly offered me to test and review the new microcontroller in mbed family, the NXP LPC11U24. mbed microcontrollers are designed for rapid prototyping: [checklist] run a microprocessor (ARM Cortex) with all the required components; connect to PC via USB for firmware uploading; have a breadboard friendly shape (DIP win 40 pins). [/checklist] Since a few weeks, the new…
Unboxing of an original Arduino UNO… there’s no comparison with a chinese clone! 😉
Today I needed to track the number of active sessions of a given virtual desktop pool in my VMWare View infrastructure. VMWare offers some cmdlets to Powershell integration; you can find them on the server where the Connection Server is installed: You can include those cmdlets in your scripts with the command: add-PSSnapin "VMware.View.Broker"add-PSSnapin "VMware.View.Broker" To get remote sessions, use Get-RemoteSession cmdlet,…
Emanuele wrote a post about an interesting project, based on a PIC microcontroller, to send collected data to Google Spreadsheets. Using this Google app, you can also create graphs, so you can keep your data in the cloud and follow their fluctuations:
When you create a new device in Eagle, you may need to use an item (symbol or package) already available in a different library. First, open your library: Then right click on the item you need to import and choose Copy to Library: The item will be added to your library and you’ll be able…
MagPi is a new magazine, online and free, about the new RaspberryPi hardware platform. You can read it online or download in PDF format, enjoy your reading!