The HD44780 is a de-facto standard controller for display. We have already use it providing a source code to use a 16×2 LCD with a STM32. In this article we will step over introducing an I2C backpack for that display. Of course we will explain how to edit old code in order to get it work with this new hardware configuration.
Even if it is still popular, this controller was made commercially available in the late eighties. At that time serial communications were not so widespread because their were costly and involved constraint about clock speed. Because of that, the continue reading...
First time I started to deal with a software a little bit more complicated than the one used to print “Hello World”, I have encountered some words like “versioning”, “revision”, “diff”, “branch”, “trunk”, “checkout” and I heard about certain software like “svn”, “git”, “mercurial”.
Do you keep in mind when your friends knows something you don’t know and they continuously talk about that making you feel like a complete dumbass? Well that was my feeling! It is much simpler than how it seems: there are certain programs which purpose is to keep trace of every single character continue reading...
In the article “A close look to ChibiOS demos for STM32” we have briefly explained how multithreading works but in this article we want to discuss more in detail the mechanisms behind ChibiOS/RT. This article is addressed to those developers already experienced with this RTOS.
A single thread application could be imagined like a straight line (Fig.1). Executing code we are travelling along that line and the beginning of our line is the application entry point. We can jump from a point of the line to an other, but we will always be on the same line.
In a multithreaded continue reading...
In our minds, we have always seen SEGGER debugging solutions like a professional but costly tools: a debugger to perform advanced operations but definitely too much for a student. Some time ago we heard about a new version of SEGGER, the J-Link EDU, which is cheaper and addressed virtually to us. It started to take shape the idea of using it as external debugger for these ARM evaluation kit which comes without a debugger.
Some month ago SEGGER proposed a firmware suitable for STM32 Nucleo on-chip debugger which makes J-Link available also for the STM32 ecosystem and they continue reading...
At the recent event “ST = Life Augmented”, held in Milan during the Class Digital Experience Week, STMicroelectronics has raffled various development kits, for attendees who enrolled to the event through the Pepite blog. Apart to the famous STM32 Nucleo-64 board and some of its Expansion Board (the STM32 x-Nucleo), the most interesting thing was the development kit for wearable applications, the STEVAL-WESU 1, valued at approximately 50€ and we were lucky to get one for free.
STEVAL-WESU1 stand for ST EVALution WErable Sensor Unit, and is an evaluation kit to test various continue reading...
