Low-power LiPo Light controller
A toy project to get some experience of low-power design: LiPo powered shed lights with a battery protector.
Martin Oldfield, 03 Feb 2016
Playing with PICs on MacOS X
The tools I use when playing with PIC microcontrollers
Martin Oldfield, 26 Nov 2015
An Intervalometer
A simple intervalometer driven by a PIC microcontroller.
Martin Oldfield, 18 Jan 2015
TCP-IP v4.16 and Olimex flash
An easy way to patch recent versions (e.g. 4.16) of the Microchip PIC TCP-IP stack to work with the Atmel flash EEPROMs on Olimex boards.
Martin Oldfield, 05 Jun 2013
ADSL modem rebooting
Controlling things over Ethernet, here a hung ADSL modem, with the PIC Mini Web from Olimex. This is more of a brief sketch, to test the blogging software, than anything too deep or insightful.
Martin Oldfield, 05 Jun 2013
Perl tools for MPFS2
Recent versions of Microchip's TCP/IP stack (after version 4.11) use a new filing system and web server: MPFS2 and HTTP2. Microchip supply a Windows program, MPFS2.exe to manage things, but this is quite inconvenient for people on Linux or OS X. These Perl programs try to help.
Martin Oldfield, 05 Jun 2013
A Coordinate Decoder
A simple PIC-based coordinate decoder for geocache puzzles.
Martin Oldfield, 05 Jun 2013