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Embedded World 2017: The Top Secret New Chip as a Servo Motor Driver

Summary In this article I will take you through the firmware that I will be using to control the Robot Arm Servo Motors.  The Business Unit Manager is being a total pain the neck about letting me tell too much about his new product before the announcement at Embedded World next week.  He is from Indiana, […]

ThingSoC: Four I2C OLED Displays with PSoC4L

Pattern Agents are running a crowd funding effort for ThingSoC TSoC4L … help them here Summary In the previous ThingSoC post I took you through building the firmware to make the PSoC4L drive the ThingSoC I2C hub.  Now what?  When originally looking around I saw a picture with 4x LCDs connected to the I2C hub, which I […]

Pinball: PCB Solder Reflow the OSH Park – Eagle 1.2 Board

Summary of my PCB Solder Reflow Process Getting the purple envelope from OSH Park is always exciting.  The big question is,  “After all those hours studying the Eagle PCB editor, did I make the same error three times in a row, or did I finally get it right?”  In this post, I will take you through […]

IOT Expert 2016 Year in Review and 2017 Goals

Summary This week as I looked back on 2016, I decided to evaluate where I have been with my project www.iotexpert.com and what the future should look like. I started this website in the fall of 2014 when I was on vacation from Cypress.  In that first 4 months I made 14 posts, which, at the […]

Eagle PCB Layout Guidelines + OSH Park

Summary of Eagle PCB Layout Guidelines I typically design my PCB’s in Eagle and have them manufactured at OSH Park.  Each new PCB layout feels like I am starting nearly from scratch because I only do about 1 or 2 boards per year.  Every time, as I go through the process, I promise myself that I […]