Humans can visualize things much slower than they can occur.  Take for instance the 7 x 10 Click LED display produced by MikroElektronika.  What you see in the image isn't multiple LEDs lit at th [...]

Sometimes the need arises to re-use existing code in other platforms or other compilers.  To do this you need to "port" existing code to work with the platform you are using.  Most times it b [...]

Embedded systems doesn't necessarily mean that your small energy-efficient MCU can only perform one task. You do however, need some careful planning to insure that your tasks do not run at the [...]

It's been a long day at work, you hop in your car and drive home through the daily rush hour. Finally, you've arrived, only thing left is to park the machine in your garage, going [...]

You are playing your favorite game on your favorite platform. You are driving a car in the game, and as you encounter a sharp turn, you hit your brakes, and start drifting into the curve. While [...]

The purpose of having coding standards is to provide a guiding format for code development. This facilitates the ease of construction when multiple programmers are developing separate or even [...]

A new and upcoming project is emerging and it has fangs.  Ever wanted an easy to use, high level, multi-threaded language on their micro-controller?  Well it is now a reality thanks to the good p [...]

Real Time Clocks (RTCs for short) Little attention is payed to the little piece of silicon on your board that is responsible for counting every second of every day.  What is taken for granted [...]