By So we had the hard drive in an iMac replaced for free out of warrantee thanks to a recall from Apple due to a fault with that model of hard drive. Well done Apple! But just before we took it in for service we noticed that the backup drive had
Raspberry Pi Audio Delay
So it’s cricket season here and that means lots of sitting in front of the TV watching cricket and listening to the commentary by the clowns on Channel 9 when I would much rather be watching cricket and listening to the commentary by the clowns on ABC Grandstand. The only
LPCXpresso Using VirtualBox with Ubuntu Guest on OS X Host
I finally got around to playing with the free LPCXpresso boards I was sent by NXP. A nifty little ARM Cortex M0 board with an USB programming and console link, gcc based compiler and Eclipse based IDE. The CPU is a LPC1114 and features: 32-bit ARM Cortex M0 core 32kB
Strange avrdude problem & how to fix it
I was doing some development using an ATtiny26l micro and an Atmel AVRISP mk2 serial programmer tonight. I’ve been using the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers with avg-gcc (via CrossPack for Macs), the AVR Eclipse Plugin, avrdude and a USB to serial dongle without a problem for the last few
Mac OS X Serial Terminal Programs
I do some embedded software development at home on my Mac, and as others in this situation know, it’s a Windows world out there. It’s fair to say that while there are some tools for embedded developers, there’s not a lot going around by way of free or open source