Despite what a lot of people say about the Arduino crowd and using C++ on a microcontroller, I like it.  Sometimes it incurs a performance or code-size overhead, but I’m not often approaching the RAM or Flash limits of an Atmega 328, or especially an Atmega 2560.  When appropriate features are used, C++ results in [...]

I’ve been excited about the LPC1114FN28 for a while now (at least, as excited as one could be about a microcontroller).  The LPC1114FN28 is a microcontroller from NXP with an ARM Cortex-M0 core in a 28 pin DIP package. With 32k of flash and 4k of RAM, this chip isn’t the biggest or baddest on [...]

By now, almost everyone’s managed to acquire a bajillion cheap ARM dev boards, and there are always more coming.  As these chips get cheaper, and available in more hacker-friendly packages, they’re going to overtake chips and boards like the AVR and the Arduino, it’s just a matter of time.  Unfortunately, the ARM ecosystem isn’t as [...]

Get the code here: https://github.com/Zuph/AVRQueue Introducing the Arduino Simple Task Scheduler.  This is part of the balloon flight computer code I wrote for White Star, with some more polish. This library allows you to create a schedule queue of functions to be executed at specified times, on specified intervals.  For example, say you’re trying to log [...]