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Linkit Smart 7688 OpenWRT 18.06 and I2C

The I2C bus is a bus is used to interface with small sensor devices in a system. Recently I needed to collect data from an …

My last post was about how to get the LinkIt Smart 7688 embedded Linux module running and updating the firmware. This post in the series …

As an embedded systems engineer I am always interested in new systems. I’ve worked with the NixCore X1 boards and got pretty deep in to …

My friends here in Colorado started a new company called NixCore, a Linux enabled processor board that takes 1 Watt of power. They asked me …

While in China I picked up a USB microscope for $25 USD. It’s an “2MP HD microscope with 600x magnification” according to the box and …

Wow, it’s been a crazy few months. I am taking some courses for my masters, started a few contracting gigs and went to China with …

I’ve found myself in the situation a few times where I was trying to explain that PCBs can be routed using a low cost CNC, like the 3040 CNC …

As I mentioned before I haven’t worked with the Arduino family much since I tend to be working on different processors than 8-bit ATMega chips. …

I finally got tired of punching numbers into my calculator for debounce circuits so I came up with a small javscript app to determine capacitance, …

Recently I was asked to take a look at some code for the Arduino Yun that was developed as a proof of concept for a …