Modern microcontrollers have advanced memory systems such as SRAM, DRAM and also Flash on chip. Because of the limited write-cycles of Flash and the fact that you usally have to write big chunks of data at once, writing non volatile data to the flash is usually a bad idea. When I had a more detailed...
Getting in touch with the PSoC 5 had been an expensive mission in the past. The development kit is around 100USD and if you order it with shipping, taxes etc... better don't ask... The difference between the PSoC 5 and the PSoC 4 is that the PSoC 5 is using a Cortex M3 while the...
The last month my girlfriend and I had been working on a system to capture leg movement and animate a skeleton together with a exoskeleton. The motivation was to improve the "mobility in the city". We found that people using a wheelchair often fell "unequal" as they are simply not on the same height as "normal"...
Do you want to improve the world we are living in and you are having a groundbreaking idea how to make that happen? Then you should go for the hackaday prize 2015, which is starting today! What is the Hackaday Price? Well nothing but a competition with the richest and most compelling prize pool ever available to...
I received the new bluetooth low energy pioneer kit from cypress and want to write a bit about what it is and how to get started with it. The chips in this kit are designed to make the Internet of things (IoT) happen by connecting everything to everything. An example is your dishwasher which is...
Though WPF is not meant for complex 3D implementations, the Viewport3D is a quite powerful feature. You can implement small 3D Animations to improve your design, the usability and so on. However, the usage of this Viewport3D is not easy going. Usually (at least I do) you have created an 3D Object in a 3D Modeling...
At 13.11.14 there was an embedded workshop and the hackaday price party in munich/germany. This was the first hackaday price, you could send in your hardware hacks and the winner got a trip to space (or the equivalent money). But first things first. The hackaday party was in munich because of electronica. Electronica is a...
After finishing the introduction into State Machines I wanted to come up with a implementation on a real device (I don't own an FPGA so far). At the electronica I visited the Cypress booth and they showed me how to create own user componentes. The process looked very simple and indeed it is, at least...
I will soon write a bit about what the ESP8266 is, how to use it and what I have developed on that platform. In the meantime you might want to check my standalone ESP8266 smart meter project. In a nutshell the ESP8266 is a WiFi module which can act as AP or Station and can...
While I contributed to Active Games at Frankfurt University this year I digged a bit deeper into the capabilities of Cypress PSoC 4. I already played a bit with the capsense feature to realize touch-buttons or sliders. This time I went for the proximity sensor. I started by connecting a single wire to the PSoC4 and enable...