The era of gesture is upon us. No longer do we need to waste our time with keyboards and mice, we can move our bodies in pre-programmed sequences and the computer will somehow understand us. [...]
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17/02/2016Humans 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 [...]
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17/02/2016Sometimes 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 [...]
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17/02/2016Embedded 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 [...]
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10/02/2016It'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 [...]
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04/02/2016You 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 [...]
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03/02/2016The 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 [...]
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03/02/2016A 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 [...]
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