PCBWay Jan 12,2021

Building a Rust Driver for PineTime’s Touch Controller

Pretend you’re my IoT student. I give you a PineTime Smart Watch and challenge you to “Make it work… Especially the touch screen!” The Touch Screen appears to be lacking some documentation. What would...

Internet of Things Rust Gadgets programming Nrf52

PCBWay Nov 17,2020

Build Your IoT Sensor Network — STM32 Blue Pill + nRF24L01 + ESP8266 + Apache Mynewt + thethings.io

Law of Thermospatiality: Air-conditioning always feels too warm AND too cold by different individuals in a sizeable room.Law of Thermospatiality in actionIt’s impossible to get perfect air-conditionin...

IoT ESP8266 Internet of Things Nrf24l01 Stm32 thethings.io Apache Mynewt

PCBWay Nov 03,2020

Program Your First FPGA With GOWIN GW1N-4

If you’re a software developer like me, you might be thrilled to see so many exciting embedded hardware platforms that we can now program easily, from Arduinos to the PADI IoT Stamp and the STM32 Blue...

FPGA Gowin arduino IoT programming Internet of Things

PCBWay Oct 28,2020

Why use FPGA for IoT? Here’s what I think…

Everywhere people are buzzing about FPGA — Field-Programmable Gate Array. It’s a computing device that works like an Arduino Microcontroller — but in a different way. A microcontroller contains a CPU ...

Arduino IoT Sigfox FPGA Internet of Things Field-Programmable Gate Arra microcontroller

PCBWay Oct 20,2020

Build and Flash Rust+Mynewt Firmware for PineTime Smart Watch

All you need is a Raspberry Pi and a Windows or macOS computer!UPDATE: This code in this article has been archived in the pre-lvgl branch of pinetime-rust-mynewt. The pinetime-rust-mynewt firmware has...

raspberry pi Internet of Things Rust Nrf52 Pinetime

PCBWay Oct 13,2020

Porting [druid] Rust Widgets to PineTime Smart Watch

A button that responds to our tapping and increments a counter… That’s what we shall accomplish today on the PineTime Smart Watch…The Watch App we see in the video was created with the [druid] Crate i...

Rust Internet of Things Gadgets Programming Nrf52 PineTime

PCBWay Sep 15,2020

Bluetooth Mesh with nRF52 and Apache Mynewt

Suppose we have four light bulbs in our home, each with its own on/off switch…Let’s make them smart… With Wireless Remote Control!Flipping the on/off switch of the first bulb should switch the other b...

Internet of Things Bluetooth Mesh Nrf52 Mynewt Gadgets

PCBWay Aug 25,2020

Visual Embedded Rust Programming with Visual Studio Code

Create and edit Embedded Rust programs for STM32 Blue Pill and Apache Mynewt… By dragging and dropping blocks!Tomato Crop and Temperature Sensors on Moon Base OneThe year is 2029. Humans are populatin...

Programming Internet of Things Rust Stm32 Nb lot

PCBWay Aug 18,2020

Juggling STM32 Blue Pill For Arduino Jugglers

Have you outgrown the Arduino Uno? Do you feel like Arduino Uno is giving you a straw to sip a big slice of cake, one tiny crumb at a time?You are not alone! Many Arduino Jugglers have the same sentim...

Aiduino Stm32 IoT Bluepill Internet of Things

PCBWay Aug 11,2020

Rust Rocks NB-IoT! STM32 Blue Pill with Quectel BC95-G on Apache Mynewt

The year is 2029. Humans are populating the Moon, starting at Moon Base One. Two Moon Base Operators are about to commit another grave mistake in the crop garden of beautiful red tomatoes…Tomato Crop ...

Rust Internet of Things Stm32 Programming

PCBWay Jul 29,2020

OpenOCD on Raspberry Pi: Better with SWD on SPI

Sneaky tricks to align stray bits into proper bytesThe setup that we see above… Debugging nRF52 with a Raspberry Pi running VSCode and OpenOCD… Was impossible just a week ago!OpenOCD connects to nRF52...

OpenOCD Raspberry Pi SWD SWD Pi nRF52 IDCODE SPI Sandbox Internet of Things