(This is a wrap up of my thoughts from day 2 of Embedded World 2017. For day 1 highlights, check out EW17 day 1 blog: IoT security and Lego cities)
As embedded devices become more prevalent and assume more responsibility in our daily lives, there is a…
During CES 2016, Microchip unveiled a complete, ultra-low-power connected platform for cost-optimized IoT and wearable applications. This new platform features the world’s lowest power ARM Cortex-M0+, the Atmel | SMART SAM L21, and award-winning…
More times than not, developers are faced with two bad options: either deliver a substandard product quickly, or reinvent the wheel and miss the market altogether. Luckily, one Santa Barbara-based startup has come up with a solution, not just a band-aid…
Do you recall what you were doing back in the summer of fourth grade? Chances are you weren’t creating a programmable, Arduino-based smartwatch like eight-year-old Maker Omkar Govil-Nair, let alone starting your own business.
The O Watch is built…
Microchip has expanded its popular lineup of secure, ARM Cortex M0+-based MCUs with the new SAM L22 series. The Atmel | SMART SAM L family is the highest scoring product family in the EEMBC ULPBench and offers an ultra-low power capacitive touch with…
In recent months, the Femtoduino crew has been hard at work developing a range of new boards, including their highly-popular IMUduino BTLE, and even more recently, the uber-mini FemtoUSB. Now, after much anticipation, the crew has returned with a dime…
There was so much I wanted to share about my one day at Maker Faire that I needed to write two blogs. My first thoughts are in My First Maker Faire: Engineers and Kids at Play.
While my son played on an iPad, I joined…
At Maker Faire in San Mateo Arduino and Atmel announced the Arduino Zero, powered by an Atmel ARM Cortex-M0+ based microcontroller.
The Arduino Zero is a great tool for prototyping, hobbyists and makers that need more power than what is offered by the…
Wearable technology is the most talked about next-generation trend, predicted to hugely disrupt the consumer electronics landscape - and ARM is right at the centre of its emergence and growth.
Today, the wearable market includes a variety of products…
Yesterday in Shanghai, Freescale Semiconductor made a significant announcement to bring their Kinetis EA series of MCUs into the automotive market.
Thus far, ARM’s success in automotive has mainly been with the ARM® Cortex®-A and Cortex…
The batteryless energy harvesting remote control was a project undertaken to demonstrate the low power of the ARM Cortex-M0+ processor. We wanted to create an extremely low power remote control that was compatible with the vast majority of…
This blog post is concerned with how we got the MCU in the Batteryless Energy Harvesting Remote Control to go into a Low Leakage Mode. It is also concerned with the Low Leakage Wake Up Unit (LLWU) and how this can be used to wake up the remote control…
The Batteryless Energy Harvesting Remote Control can be taught Infra-red codes and then repeat them. This post explains the way in which this was achieved.
The circuit uses an Infra-red demodulator. The commands from an existing…
This post is concerned with the techniques used to harvest and regulate energy for the Energy Harvesting Remote Control.
The main source of energy harvested in the remote control is solar power. The idea here was that you could…
In the spirit of some of the more well-known ARM-based development boards and their popular communities, I was curious what other innovative ideas are out there being crowdsourced. Just a bit of research quickly revealed eight ARM-based embedded projects…
