Finally an update! Gotta slip one in before the end of June, so it’s not been a year between posts.
Lots has happened since I last posted including a burglary at our rented town house which triggered us to look for another place to live. We ended up buying a house (!) and moving. Finally finally this month I have had a chance to organise my workspace and unpack some of my microchips.
Continue reading ‘StarTAC SED1530 LCD and Keypad hardware, Telit GC864 cellular’
Keeping tabs on the ‘maker’ community, Arduino as a development platform is certainly very popular.
I initially dismissed it when I first started learning about microcontrollers as I was learning on the Atmel ATmega8, which the Arduinos of the time were based around, and figured that I wanted to learn at a ‘pure’ level and not be confused by an additional abstraction layer.
Continue reading ‘Joining the Arduino collective’
A long time ago, when I discovered the 4D Systems line of OLED serial-controlled displays I was very impressed – an awesome screen with an easy to understand interface was just what I wanted to play with.
Now that I’ve had one for a while – the uOLED-160-GMD1 – I find that I’m stuck in a swamp of indecision about how to try and display things on the screen. Options and choices turned out to be a real problem for me. I will still use it for something and the fact that I’ve switched to Arduino vs. just plain C code on an ATmega may make things more straightforward.
Continue reading ‘Motorola StarTAC SED1530 LCD driver IC’
With renewed enthusiasm I have progressed on the coding of my RetroTAC project.
Today’s result: my little Atmel ATmega8 is telling the 4D Systems uOLED-160-GMD1 where to go! Or rather, what to say.
Continue reading ‘ATmega8 talking to uOLED-160-GMD1′