It has been complicated to understand the cryptic number system of Nordic Semiconductor development boards.
They don’t mention it clearly in their infocenter site also.
I decided, I had enough trouble loosing hair on this one.
Solving this mystery was imperative.
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The TL866II Plus is a Parallel programmer. Freqenty used in my lab for programming age old chips like AT89C51.
One might wonder what use I have for these old 8051. Well I have big box full of these ! And many of my project still run 8051. Yes!
All this time, Windows was the only way for this programmer.
Since, I am using Manjaro Linux wanted it to work there.
Lets look at how I mad this possible.
...I wanted to have a screen sharing session with some one over Hangouts. We all know that it does not work well in Firefox so needed chrome.
To my surprise the Manjaro Linux Standard Package repository does not support chrome. Well since Google does not provide an install package for Arch Linux specifically.
...Developing custom projects with nRF5-SDK for nRF52 devices from Nordic Semiconductors.
Keeping the mess of files away !
Fig: Segger Embedded Studio
Source: Segger Embedded Studio
Its been some time since I worked on BLE. So pulled out my nRF52-DK to try to start again.
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Using Raspberry Pi for
your IoT experiments - a given.
Like the white hair on my head.
Many don’t realize the real threat it poses these days to security.
There have been many reports of IoT devices being hijacked.
And then used for malicious purposes. Like peeping into your
drawer. Even worst looking into your code.
I don’t want people to know how many cockroaches
and worms lie hidden in my old code. ;-)
...Well, instead of loosing your night’s sleep read this.
This started a quest to design the perfect cycle delay
for one of my favorite MCUs the STM8.
In the process I learned a lot about custom pipeline and execution of in
proprietary MCU such as STM8S.
Fig: STM8S Board
Many of us Windows users try to have Visual Studio environment.
But that’s not always great option. Unless you are ready to download 8GB
on your internet bandwidth.
I personally like Visual Studio and its fast upcoming cousin VS Code. But hate the large download part.
Hence an opensource alternative is a need of the hour.
Also if you like to compile linuxy style code with Makefile in all its
glory.
...MinGW64 at your service friend!
It has been long time since I worked on ESP8266 and that too native SDK from Esperssif. With the rusty know-how and lack on info online, I had a mixed start again. Hope that the experience shared here might be helpful for many users, who wish to do ESP8266 native SDK development on Windows Platform. But are afraid that most of the working tools for ESP8266 are linux friendly.
...Not to worry you are in good company.
Working with DietPi, we found going back and forth between the Raspberry Pi and PC very time consuming. Fortunately DietPi provides a PC distribution with x86_x64 configuration. Though they had both VM Ware and Virtual Box files but they did not work for us. So we decided to download the Native PC for BIOS/CSM (BETA) option.
We later found out this is just a .img file,
we could not directly use it with Virtual Box
There is always a need to add multiple dimensions and units to dimensions while doing PCB Assembly.
The process of doing so in Orcad 17.2 is quite tricky.
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