Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Strobit M8 by Jan Gentsch

All the design files and software are now available online for Jan Gentschs M8 Triggr Implementation.

Files can be found here.

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Monday, June 23rd, 2008

RFM12B Bit Rates and Throughput

During the prototyping of the StrobIt Triggr, I found that I could only hit the maximum bit rate of approx 12000bps, this is a far cry from the reported 256Kbps, so what was I doing wrong?

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Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Intronix LogiPort Logic Analyser

Well my new tool, a LogicPort Logic analyser from http://www.pctestinstruments.com/index.htm, arrived last week whilst in the middle of our house move and I’ve been itching to try it out, well last night I made time to play with it.  The result is, man I wish I had one of these beasts earlier.

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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

RFM12 Tutorial - Part2

Part 2 - RFM12 Hardware Interface
In this next part of the RFM12 tutorials I’ll be covering the hardware interface, signal descriptions and how you go about hooking it up to the MCU of your choice.
 

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