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ARM Server Project

Over the past few weeks I've been posting screenshots from CircuitMaker to Twitter for my latest project. In response I've had a bit more interest than I was expecting in the project, so

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Flash

Writing a flash memory layer: don't

A current project that I am working on at the moment that runs on an STM32F0 needs to be able to store some settings and a few other things. The device is something

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QuadF7

Quad F7 Flight Controller

While it is highly unlikely that QuadF7 will meet its crowdfunding target on Indiegogo despite being my most successful campaign to date. It will however live on as a creative commons (CC-BY-NC-SA) project

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PCB Prototyping on a Budget - PCBWay Review

For the month of May, I won the CircuitMaker Circuit of the Month competition for my Gizmite Interface i.MX6 board. To celebrate I created a new ZigBee equipped board with a Cortex-M4

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Operating Systems

The Big Apple Switch

Over the past few weeks I have seen numerous blog posts and tweets about users getting fed up with Apple and moving away. At first I was agreeing with them, I myself made

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Updates on the home automation project

As it has been a while since my last update I thought I would explain where I am with the project. I have just finished the prototype design for the accessory control boards

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The Internet of Things House

Over the the last few months I have done two posts about the devices I have been working on. The first post was an introduction to the project, and the second post (my

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HomeKit and me

As some of you are aware I have been working on an Internet of Things device. What most of you are not aware of is what my devices do. Last post I briefly

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IoT

The Internet of Secret Projects

Some of you who follow me on twitter may have noticed that from time to time I have mentioned various things relating to an IoT (for those not up with the lingo Internet

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Electrolysis

Fun with Copper and Water

First a small disclaimer: While this post is about the Australian NBN project, at the same time it is not. I will not post about the NBN as this has been, and is

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New life for an old device

A little while ago over on xda developers a user posted some information about where UART could be found on the Transformer Primes mainboard.This encouraged me to set up UART on my

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Another year another blog

Every now and again I end up creating a new blog, and year after year like those faulty new years resolutions I fail to maintain it. Usually something happens like an accidental rm

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