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Home Automation: The Frontier of the “Internet of Things”

By dsmoot | Software | 1 comment | 21 May, 2014 | 1

Home automation is one of my hobbies that I use to entertain and enlighten myself when my day job is a little tedious (which lately has been quite rare). I think home automation is on the verge blossoming from the domain of the hobbyist and wealthy into a huge growth market. It is all partRead more

Red Pitaya – Getting Started

By dreynolds | Hardware, Software | 6 comments | 14 May, 2014 | 0

We recently received a Red Pitaya, a successfully funded kickstarter campaign for open source instrumentation. The Red Pitaya has a Dual core ARM Cortex A9+ FPGA with 4GB of ram, with the circuitry to handle fast analog inputs, analog outputs, and digital GPIO. It is similar to the Parallella in that it shares the sameRead more

Solder Failures On Older Printed Circuit Boards

By dsmoot | Hardware | 0 comment | 9 May, 2014 | 2

My car has an aftermarket power lock system installed. Years ago I lost one of the original remotes so I purchased a replacement from local Houston business Remotes Unlimited. That remote worked great for years and years but recently it started failing intermittently. It would take 5 or 6 tries to lock the car. SoRead more

If you *must* use .NET System.IO.Ports.SerialPort

By Ben Voigt | Software | 173 comments | 7 May, 2014 | 30

As an embedded developer who writes desktop software mostly for configuration of, and data download from, peripheral devices, I use serial data streams a lot.  Mostly USB virtual serial posts from FTDI, but also the USB Communication Device Class and real 16550-compatible UARTs on the PCI bus.  Since looking at data through an in-circuit emulatorRead more

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