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Because I have not tested all electronic circuits mentioned on this pages, I cannot attest to their accuracy; therefore, I do not provide a warranty of any kind and cannot be held responsible in any manner.

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ARM

Beagle Board

18. September 2008 - 17:23 — admin

An ARM Cortex development board with a lot of capabilities.

Handheld Multifunction Scope

13. July 2008 - 10:27 — admin

The LM3S811-based Handheld Multifunction Scope is an impressive multifunctional oscilloscope based on Luminary Micro’s LM3S811 Evaluation board

LPC2138 as a VGA controller

5. July 2008 - 19:54 — admin

An LPC2138 microcontroller generates the VGA signals that drive the monitor as well as the graphics and fonts. The microcontroller also handles a keyboard, a mouse and some storage memory.

ARM: Assembly Language Programming

30. May 2008 - 19:42 — admin

A book by Peter Knaggs and Stephen Welsh - download for free.

ARM WebBox

3. May 2008 - 14:36 — admin

LPC2294-based Web server by Ulrich Radig.

My first experiments with accelerometers

29. April 2008 - 16:59 — admin

...or Would you like to built your own Wiimote? :)

.NET device with FAT and USB Host for US$80

13. April 2008 - 17:49 — admin

Embedded Master module by GHI Electronics implements Microsoft's .NET Micro Framework. This allows users to run C# managed code right inside Embedded Master. Users will use Visual Studio to develop and debug programs.

Nokia Color LCD - using 4096 colors in 8bit mode

7. July 2007 - 21:25 — admin

How to manage Nokia 6100 LCD to use 4096 colors without any limitations? It's easy... You can use my library for free.

As I promise in my previous article , here is my improved LCD C library for using with the Nokia 6100 Series LCD.

Main feature in this library is method to use full 4096 colors in the 8bits (256col) mode. It is enabled by simple hack, based on the color lookup table and the LRU cache.

Cheap LCD display with 4096 colors for embedded projects

29. June 2007 - 21:19 — admin

How to use the color LCD from the Nokia 6100 mobile phone with your own microcontroller project? Inside: Description of full-color (4096 colors) LCD mode, connecting the display to the µC and free graphics library to download.