Strike and Dip Changes with Bonus Git Migration!
Sorry it has taken a while for me to post anything. With work, school, and the holidays, the last few months have been busy. I’m in the middle of a two week break between terms, and trying to make the most of it! First off, there has been another platform change for the Strike and […]
WMM code ported to STM32! I think!
In my quest to get the Strike and Dipper up to snuff, I found a program to automatically determine the magnetic declination from any location on Earth, the World Magnetic Model from NOAA. It is really lightweight, if you’re working on a PC or SoC, but the geoid information alone is 4 MB. So I […]
Testing the Strike and Dip prototype and exploring the MSP430FR6989
This post was originally published on June 25, 2018 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc I forgot to mention this earlier, but I made a non-connected version the the lamp with a spare Arduino Uno that I had kicking around and sent it to my Dad for Father’s Day. He’s a Denver Broncos fan so it oscillates from blue […]
Silly little lamp, and starting port of Strike and Dip to the STM32F030R8
This post was originally published on May 30, 2018 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc I found a whole sheet of 100 WS2812s for $10 and a pack of two ESP8266s for $12 and couldn’t pass them up. Funky art time! Big shout out to StackExchange for the colorFade function, and showing me that my means of separating […]
Massive improvements to the MMA7455 library
This post was originally published on May 21, 2018 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc Holy cow! It compiles without warnings, the 10 bit reads work, and it is a whole lot cleaner now. The functions are actually returning stuff, so the code to print to the SSD1306 looks like this: sprintf(x_axis, “%d”, JSC_MMA7455_Read_8Bit_X()); ssd1306_WriteString(x_axis,Font_11x18,White); Now I can start adding […]
My first, terrible library for STM32
This post was originally published on May 20, 2018 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc I have officially written my first library/sensor driver! It’s for the MMA7455 3-Axis Accelerometer, and it is more than a wee bit ugly. It only provides for 8-bit functionality in its current incarnation, and only in monitor mode. The 10-bit read only reads the X axis […]
Strike and Dip Part X
This post was originally published on May 18, 2018 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc It’s alive! The only thing left to be done on the code for this incarnation is to move the code for the button that writes to the SD card to an interrupt. The button only works sporadically right now, but an ISR should fix […]
Strike and Dip Part IX
This post was originally published on April 14, 2018 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc Well, it’s been a while since I did any updates to the page. That said, I’ve made some changes to the unit and my workflow. The biggest news is that I’m finally learning git! I’m JakeSparkleChicken on GitHub, and have been moving all of my […]
Strike and Dip Part VIII
This post was originally published on December 29, 2017 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc Well, I bricked my Metro Express M0 board. I was trying to install the CircuitPython package on it, and it did not go according to plan. Yet another change of plans! I’ve had a Beaglebone Black kicking around for a while, patiently waiting for me to […]
Strike And Dip Part VII
This post was originally published on November 20, 2017 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc The Strike and Dipper is dead. Long live the Strike and Dipper! I have been beating my head against the Metro M0 Express for three weeks now, trying to bend it to my will. The SoftwareSerial library doesn’t work on it, but it […]
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Jake is a network and systems admin in the Chicago area, where he lives with his very understanding wife and very stinky cat.
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