Problems on a debian install that each time I plugged in a C270 the usb hung. A look at logs showed two symptoms. lots of usb 3-6: 3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x86 and multiple instances of udevd also … Continue reading
A day of misery with various micro-controllers. More to be explained over the coming days, tales of misery and imagination involving LPCExpresso and Kinetis Studio…. But for not the misery was a Kinetis K64F that seemed to not boot reliably. … Continue reading
For a schools demo project I wanted an easy way for students to design a sequence of control values for the LEDS on an mbed 1768 board. Download from here The mbed code is at https://developer.mbed.org/users/jont/code/nine_ledpatterns/
Handy reminders of where things are on Android and how to backup the whole thing Custom Sounds http://www.androidcentral.com/adding-your-own-custom-sounds-android Backup the whole thing http://droidviews.com/2012/how-to-backup-your-android-phone-without-rooting-or-unlocking-the-bootloader/
As mentioned previously I have been using a database of Peter Hammill and Van Der Graaf Generator songlines as test data for various projects. Whilst doing some Android related things I put together a “widget”. So as an extension to … Continue reading
The microprocessor simulator that was featured last year has now been implemented as an Android application. It is intended to be run on 7 Inch tablet devices and above. Here is a picture of it running on a 7 inch … Continue reading
(brief random notes, that may help someone else) A brief tale of getting a matplotlib and basemap to work with pyinstaller. There are two strands to this the Linux and Windows. This is mostly the linux story. Step by step, … Continue reading
These notes are for use when it is required that a device automatically starts, runs an x-session and then runs a particular task. For example an information display. In those situations it may also be required that the screen does … Continue reading