Embedded Systems and Electronics Articles

Practical embedded systems and electronics articles on firmware, C and C++, device drivers, PCB design, debugging, Linux tools, and measurement systems.

Setting up development and programming for STM8 on Linux

STM8 Linux for Setting up development and programming for STM8 on Linux

STM8 Series of micro-controllers by ST Microelectronics are dirt cheap and powerful at the same time. Their processing power is nothing short as of Arduino, while at the same time their power consumption is much less. These properties makes STM8…

Replacing Laptop’s Hard Disk with a SSD Drive

HDD v.s. SSD

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 do it yourself!

Repairing bad capacitors in a monitor’s power supply

Good Bad Ugly Capacitors

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 problem is said…