Monday 24 February 2014

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS-SHAPE THE WORLD [LAB 6 CODE]                            

Here is a short clip of the lab in operation. It's as easy as it seems. There's those of you who jumped in with so much optimism that this was going to be as easy, life is proofing difficult for you thou. Worry not, I have placed the code that I used with description of the major parts.

 

 As you can see from the above, the Blue LED (PF2) is on by default, but blinks at an interval of 100ms when SW1 (PF4) is pressed. Apparently, I had complaints from some of you guys that the code I had posted is in violation of  the EDX code of Honor, my bad. It's no longer available for download.

Therefore, I will only post other material apart from the solutions for the UTX course. 
Thank you



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Wednesday 19 February 2014

What is shown on the left is a simple interface of the TIVA C series, TM4c123GXL Launchpad from Texas Instruments.
Its a cheap microcontroller kit (Programmer plus chip) that can be bought from Texas Instruments Online Store at just about  10 USD.
What am here to talk about is what we all want:

  ..."HOW TO PROGRAM THE TIVA-C TM4C123GXL MICROCONTROLLER"...


I would advise you guys, especially the freshmen in microcontroller programming, visit:
this link at edx.org.
There's a lot of start-up info for you there, libraries etc by Valvano and Ramesh Yerraballi. But worry not, you could have my tutorials step by step and you'll be up and running. I will be posting tutorials  here on a weekly basis, as well as explain those offered at EDX.
I like video tutorials better than gazing at my PC scrolling, here is the link to my video_tutorials.

As you can see, the kit is quite small in size, Extra Light! It comes with a USB cable to help interface to your PC, Mac or any other USB device. This can be helpful especially for Wireless Projects - You only need to get a small USB power bank like the ones listed on this page at Ebay.
experience...
Within the first two days after receiving the kit, I was already coding things into it. 




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