As promised, the NanoKeys library has been made public and is now available on it’s own project page! One noteworthy change is a modification to the key send/key clear algorithm that allows for much quicker transmission of key strokes and a snappier user experience. Here’s a short clip of the new functionality in action: And…
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…
EvoLink: EVO-All datalink library released
- by: Pat Deegan
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Interacting with vehicles can be pretty tough. Cars are electrically noisy environments and, being powerful and heavy metal machines, a little tricky (read, dangerous) to play with. Worse, they’re all different! Even with the advent of the CAN system and standard, manufacturers can be infuriating in their insistance on doing everything in their own particular…
VaRGB, RGB illumination programming library, released
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VaRGB, a powerful and rather fun bit of code, has gone public and is now available as OSS. VaRGB is an RGB illumination programming library. You tell it how you want your lighting to behave, and it handles all the details of updating red/green/blue values at the right time for you. The library works on…
TinyBrite Arduino library first release
- by: Pat Deegan
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As mentioned before, I love me some LEDs and have a particular fondness for the MegaBrites, powerful RGB modules that are easy to chain together. The only issue I encountered in using the hardware was with SPI support or, more specifically, lack thereof. On certain Arduino’s, like the very tiny Digispark, there is no hardware…
SerialUI Library Released!
- by: Pat Deegan
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Ever want to easily configure, and get feedback from, an Arduino-based project? If you want to allow a user to simply connect to your device and retrieve information or give commands dynamically–without the need to re-program the Arduino–then SerialUI may be just what you need! SerialUI allows you to setup a hierarchy of menus,…