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Raspberry Pi AD9850 Sine Wave Generator with GPIO Control
Building a Raspberry Pi controlled sine wave generator with AD9850 and AD9851 modules, practical wiring notes, CLI and text user interface control, simulation checks, and scope-verified output.
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The Definitive Guide to Bit Manipulation for Embedded Systems
A comprehensive embedded guide to bit masks, register fields, target intrinsics, packed protocol values, atomicity, and C++ std::bitset.
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Writing Drivers for SPI Chips in Embedded Systems
Datasheet-to-driver patterns for SPI ADCs, sensors, DACs, and other peripheral chips, covering timing rules, transaction shape, testing, and board bring-up.
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Writing Drivers for I2C Chips in Embedded Systems
How to build maintainable I2C chip drivers for sensors, ADCs, EEPROMs, GPIO expanders, and other peripheral devices without leaking bus details into application code.
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Getting started with STM8 Development – Part 1 – Blinking a LED
Usually the first step toward learning development on a micro-controller is simply blinking a LED, as an analog to “Hello, world!” example used on PC programming languages. This time we will have a look into how to start…
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Replacing Laptop’s Hard Disk with a SSD Drive
The performance benefit when going from a good old mechanical hard drive to a solid state drive is huge! If you are planning to do this for your laptop, hopefully this video can show you how to…
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Repairing bad capacitors in a monitor’s power supply
A very common problem with power supply boards, motherboards and generally all PCs and TVs which are produced between 1999 and 2007 is the premature defect on some Taiwanese made electrolyte capacitors with bad electrolyte formula. Although this…
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Transmitting strings and numerical values by USART in STM32 microcontrollers
Have you ever wondered how to send strings and numbers using USART in micro-controllers? No worries! The answer is here! The other day I was cleaning up and giving some order to my STM32 based projects, to extract…