Just got my hands on RedBear Lab‘s Duo—what promises to be a great little BLE/WiFi combo—and got some preliminary testing done. By the end of the seven straightforward steps detailed here, you’ll know all the basics about the Duo and have your own “Arduino” code running on the device, too. Other than my own ramblings,…
Midnight hack: going from SMT to breadboard in a bind
- by: Pat Deegan
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So it’s the middle of the night and I find myself in a jam… hm, a lot of my stories seem to start that way. Anyhow, it’s the middle of the night and I’m badly stuck: I need to talk with a two-wire chip I have on a breakout, but the I²C communication lines need…
Painless handling of dates, times, events and calendars on embedded systems
- by: Pat Deegan
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I do not enjoy dealing with the vagaries of calendar dates and times… Actually, I pretty much hate it. It’s mostly because I have little patience for arbitrary rules and convoluted systems, and anything as old as the notion of date-times is always filled with historical cruft: half-baked rules, a bunch of incompatible, random-looking, bases…