I’ve bought the new album from Norah Jones today: “Not Too Late” Like always it’s a pleasure to listen to, again and again. Her voice is simply beautiful, there is no need to polish it using a computer (Like they do with most artist from the hit lists). Having that said, I am not a read more
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Boring Blog posts
January 26, 2007 – 4:03 pm
15:57 < whatah> Also, your blog is boring. 15:58 < @Qball> never said it wouldn’t be 16:00 < whatah> No, I am just pointing that out. 16:00 < whatah> I used to read your blog more often, because it was more interesting 16:00 < whatah> You should dedicate a post to me A post, just read more
Atmel coding, Getting some space to play with.
January 25, 2007 – 11:04 pm
I had an atmel mega 16 lying around that didn’t react to the programmer anymore. This was caused because some wrong fuse bits where set (It expected an external clock). I never took the time to find a way to fix it, but being in need of more space. I’ve looked around my to see read more
Atmel Coding, Optimalisation
January 20, 2007 – 11:16 pm
Hitting the 2k program space, I looked to improve the code size. Realizing that using a 16bit value for bit-masks is quiet inefficient on a 8bit avr. Because I don’t store a value larger then 8bit in there, I split the 16bit variable into 2x8bit variables. This saves allot of cycles moving stuff unneeded around. read more
Atmel Coding, unexpected errors
January 19, 2007 – 10:20 pm
An atmel uses one clock, in my case I use an external crystal (if you run a clock on it, you don’t want an RC oscilator). Something you should keep in mind is, that (unless specified otherwise) the atmel uses this clock for everything. You timers, interfaces, etc. This can lead to some unexpected problems, read more
Atmel coding, commen errors
January 17, 2007 – 11:43 pm
I’ve posted in a previous post that I implemented a clock in the atmel, and that there is an offset because of the time it takes between the calling of the signal, and me setting the counter back to 0. This wasn’t true, I run the counter with a prescaler of 1/256. So the value read more
Atmel coding
January 17, 2007 – 10:47 pm
Just a few small remarks: For the atmel, there are allot of open source tools available. A small list: avr-gcc: You can find info here binutils-avr: Allot of useful utilities, can’t find a website for this. avrdude: A programmer. This one works very well (it worked in cases that uisp failed). website here One of read more
Turning it a notch down, from 1024MByte to only 128byte of memory
January 16, 2007 – 10:10 pm
(This is a blog post I wanted to make a little while back, but never got around typing it, so here it is) In modern days when you are coding you can almost say that you have unlimited memory and speed available. Taking a look at my system monitor tells me that I currently used read more
ISP stress, and gnuplot fun
January 5, 2007 – 11:06 pm
I’ve spend almost 2 hours on the phone with planet.nl (a big isp here), being redirected more then 5 times (and put back in the waiting queue) hang up etc. To hear the same story over and over again, and finally at the end hear it will take a months to fix. (I just wanted read more