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FatFs with Kinetis
An SD (Secure Digital) Card interface is kind of standard for many applications today: it provides a lot of memory at a reasonable cost. Still, I need a software stack for it, up to the level of a file...
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Sports Timing System in a Lunch Box
The 2012 London Olympics are over. And I had my own special sports event last weekend. Although not part of the Olympics, it is part of the Switzerland Central Mountain Race Championship. This is a...
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Arduino Data-Logger Shield with the FRDM-KL25Z Board
One success factor of the Arduino platform is the broad availability so-called ‘shields’: hardware plugin-modules which extend the capability of platform. Shieldlist.org currently lists 288 different...
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Processor Expert Maxim I2C RTC for the Arduino Data Logger Shield
There was one part missing to complete the software support for my Arduino DataLogger Shield on top of my FRDM-KL25Z Freedom board: support for the Maxim DS1307 RTC (Real Time Clock). Things got...
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USB MSD Host for the Freedom Board
Sometimes things take longer than anticipated. And this is definitely the case for my USB MSD Host project where I wanted to use a USB memory stick with the Freedom FRDM-KL25Z board. But finally, I...
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Serial Bootloader for the Freedom Board with Processor Expert
Bootloaders are a very useful thing: it allows programming an application file without a debugger. This makes it ideal for upgrading a system in the field. Usually, there are application notes and...
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Added Write Protection Pin to FatFsMemSDHC
What was missing in the FatFsMemSDHC component presented here is support for a ‘write protection’ pin. Well, that write protection is not present on micro-SD cards, and on normal SD cards it is a...
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How to use MCUonEclipse GitHub without Git
Not everyone is familiar with Git, and not everyone wants to use it. Although I think using Git or SVN is something every software engineer today needs to master To make it easier for the ‘non-Gitter’...
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Hacking the Heating System for Cooling – Geothermal Drilling with extra Benefits
Summer finally has arrived in Switzerland. Yes, I live in a moderate climate zone, but if the outside temperature goes above 28-30° Celsius as these days, then sleeping at night is not that comfortable...
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FRDM with Arduino Ethernet Shield R3, Part 1: SD Card
Sometimes it takes a very long time to realize a project. Adding the Arduino Ethernet Shield R3 to one of my Freescale FRDM boards is one of it: it took me a year until I have found a few days …...
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FRDM with Arduino Ethernet Shield R3, Part 3: Embedded Web Server
This is Part 3 of an ongoing tutorial to use the Arduino Ethernet Shield R3 with a Freescale FRDM-KL25Z board (or any other board you like). In Part 1 I worked on the SD card, in Part 2 I have …...
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First Steps with the Freescale TWR-K64F120M
Naturally, I have several project ideas lingering around. No time to make them all (for now). One of it is interfacing the Raspberry Pi camera with a microcontroller. To store the images, I need plenty...
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FRDM with Arduino Ethernet Shield R3, Part 4: MinIni
I admit: my Ethernet Shield project got stuck because of too many urgent other priorities. I was not happy with the way the project was using configuration data from FLASH memory: I have now multiple...
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Tutorial: Data Logger with the FRDM-K64F Board
The Freescale FRDM-K64F is a great board for data logger applications: it has a powerful ARM Cortex M4F with 120 MHz, 1 MB Flash and 256 KByte RAM. Best of all: it already has a micro SD card socket on...
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Multi-Drive Support with FatFS
I admit: I’m sometimes a lazy person. In my projects, I only needed one ‘disk drive’ with the FatFS Processor Expert component: either a SD card or a USB MSD drive. But a reader of this blog wanted to...
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Updated McuOnEclipse Components: USB for KL24Z, FatFs v0.10c, Shell Backspace...
I have received several requests to post a quick note when there is a new release (16-Nov-2014) of the McuOnEclipse components on SourceForge (see “McuOnEclipse Releases on SourceForge“). I have...
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Tutorial: Playing MP3 Files with VS1053B and FRDM Board
I want to make some noise with this post!!! This tutorial is about adding music and sound capabilities to the Freescale Freedom board, and to have a lot of fun with it :-). I need this ability for a...
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McuOnEclipse Components: 27-Dec-2014 Release
This post is overdue, as it is about the McuOnEclipse components which have been released already a few days ago. The highlights are (beside smaller updates and bug fixes): Nordic Semiconductor...
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McuOnEclipse Components: 22-Mar-2015 Release
There is a new release of the McuOnEclipse components available on SourceForge, with the following main changes: Shell: Fixed and improved history handling. MinIni: Option to select local/stack or...
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FatFs with Kinetis
An SD (Secure Digital) Card interface is kind of standard for many applications today: it provides a lot of memory at a reasonable cost. Still, I need a software stack for it, up to the level of a file...
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