NFC Kit has Arrived + Evalbot from TI

After seeing it in action at ESC Boston. I just had to get my hands on the latest NFC offerings from ST.

Playing with the LpcXpresso from NXP

LPC Xpresso from NXP is an extremely cheap ARM development board

In the image above I am using the lpc1114.302 version of the Xpresso development board. I have a few of these Cortex-M0 based boards, a lpc1343 and lpc1768 Cortex-M3 based boards. The lpc1114 boards I got for free from NXP through various promotions they have had recently, the others cost about $30, much cheaper than similar ARM boards from other vendors.

Failing with the Stellaris based RDK-IDM-L35 from TI

FAIL

First problem was I changed the working directory for Code Composer Studio, which did not let me compile anything anymore... I re-installed on another machine and finally got it to compile (1 week later).

Next I playing with the grlib demo which is a nice demo showing you the different items shown in the built in library. I tried to change the order of the pages in the demo and made a mistake with a pointer, now it would crash after pressing the next button. It crashed and just sit there beeping.

Playing with the Stellaris based RDK-IDM-L35 from TI

Thanks to the TI Tech Days coupon, I got one of these dev boards for 10$, now time to actually use it

RDK-IDM-L35 specs:
Display: 3.5inch TFT LCD 320x240 resolution (CFAF320240F-T)
Touch: 4 wire resistive touch panel (looking for link to spec sheet, please let me know)
Brain: Stellaris LM3S1958 ARM Cortex M3 @ 50Mhz

OObs .Net is back up

Website is back up after a corrupted database required fresh install of drupal.  

To do:

  • learn how to do my own regular back up of database. 
  • just get site online and forget theming for the time being.
  • enable multi user blog features.
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