Archive for category: Development Boards

Quick tinkering of an NTP clock with the ESP32

January 21, 2018 | Development Boards, ESP32 | By: Mark VandeWettering

I spent a little time today trying to make the bare minimum code necessary for the ESP32 to connect to my WiFi network and synchronizing the time using NTP. It’s not really that amazing, but required a tiny bit of snooping around to figure out how to make it work. Archived here, just for fun. […]

On calculators, Space Invaders and Binary Coded Decimal Arithmetic…

September 21, 2015 | Computer Science, Development Boards, Emulation, Math, Microcontrollers, My Projects | By: Mark VandeWettering

A couple days ago, one of my Twitter or Facebook friends (sadly, I forgot who, comment if it was you, and I’ll give you credit) pointed out this awesome page: Reversing Sinclair’s amazing 1974 calculator hack – half the ROM of the HP-35 It documented an interesting calculator made by Sinclair in the 1970s. It […]

New (more accurate) clock module…

May 22, 2015 | Arduino, Development Boards, My Projects | By: Mark VandeWettering

As I mentioned in a previous post, I was not enormously satisfied with the accuracy of the DS1307 clock module that I got from China. It was hard to argue with the less than three dollar price tag, but I was hoping that the accuracy might achieve 20ppm (less than two seconds of drift per […]

The “official” ESP8266 Wiki…

April 4, 2015 | Development Boards, Embedded, My Projects | By: Mark VandeWettering

This morning I’m still drinking coffee and waking up, but I was pointed at “the ESP8266 wiki”, which appears to be this Wiki page. Bookmarked mostly so I can quickly find it again. But it has some good information. If I haven’t teased you enough with this experimentation, consider these features of the ESP8266: It’s […]

Not all is easy-peasy with the ESP8266, with a short addendum

April 3, 2015 | Arduino, Development Boards, Embedded | By: Mark VandeWettering

Okay, after I did my quick video record yesterday re: the ESP8266, I continued to play with it a bit more. And, it must be said, I had a little bit of difficulty which I thought I would write up so that other people who are experiencing the same issues might be able to comment, […]

First electrons for the ESP8266…

April 2, 2015 | Arduino, Development Boards, Embedded, Internet of Things, My Projects | By: Mark VandeWettering

In the telescope making world, we call the first time that a telescope is used to look at the sky “first light”. I’ve decided to call the first time I load some code onto a new development board “first electrons”. A few weeks ago, when I did a video that illustrated some of the bucket […]

My first try at an inexpensive 0.96″ OLED display…

March 17, 2015 | Amateur Science, Arduino, Development Boards | By: Mark VandeWettering

As my recent video showed, I have a lot of development boards. I also have a fair number of little boards that are useful to plugin to these development boards to accomplish various tasks. Yesterday, I received a little OLED board that I thought I’d try hooking up and let you know about my experience. […]

A New Development Board: the ODROID-C1

March 14, 2015 | Development Boards, Raspberry Pi, Small Linux Computers | By: Mark VandeWettering

One of my recent posts highlighted the big pile of development boards that I have lying around. This week, I actually added to that pile in a couple of ways: I found a pair of Beagle Bone Blacks that I had misplaced, a couple of Propeller boards, and most significantly, I ordered an ODROID-C1 from […]