On Friday I was receiving my Raspberry PI Pico and I had the opportunity to play around with it. Actually most of the time I spent reading the Manuals… The conclusion: interesting – but a little bit too complicated to use – So I was quite happy to read that Arduino plans to add an official support for this Microcontroller. I am also missing a built in DAC and I2S support though. From my point Read more
The first thing I wanted to try out after I have received my Piezo Buzzer was to generate some simple beeps. In Standard Arduino there exists the tone() function which – unfortunately – is not available in the ESP32 Arduino implementation. There are libraries to bridge this gap, but I was wondering how this could be implemented using the functionality which is available. I came up with the following alternatives: Use I2S together with the Read more
In one of my last year’s posts I was describing how to build an Internet Radio using an ESP32. I was using this together with an external DAC to feed an Amplifier. Lately I got some really cheap Piezo Electric Elements and I was wondering if I could use the solution w/o any additional Audio Electronics Hardware by just using the built in DAC of the ESP32 and connecting the 2 output pins to the Read more
I really wanted to have an interactive Jupyter environemnt in which I could play around with Arduino commands and when I discovered that Arduino provides a good starting point with their ArduinoCore-API I started to draft this prototype. I am using xeus-cling as a runtime environment to simulate an Arduino Development board and I have added the related implementation using C or the C++ std library. The goal is finally to be able to provide Read more
Hardware I was receiving my ordered SD module but I was struggling a bit to connect it to my ESP32 via the SPI interface. I double checked the connections to make sure that I was using the right SPI pins, no change! I reformatted the SD drive again using FAT32. This did not help either! Finally I got it to work when I connected VCC to 5V instead of 3.3V – I should have read Read more
For one of my current projects I had a closer look into the HTTP Protocol. Usually you might use a separate library for doing http calls from Arduino (e.g. with an ESP32) but if you are low on memory, you might get away without this by just using the WiFiClient: Setting up a WiFi connection On an ESP32 you would e.g. do the following: First you need to connect to WiFI and then you can Read more
WordPress plugins such as the Simply Static and others have the ability to automatically convert each of the WordPress pages and posts into static HTML files. I tried it in my environment but without any convincing result: When I double checked, the exported pages did still contain URLs which were pointing to the server, so on first sight everything seemed to work, but if you switch off WordPress the exported files stopped to work as Read more
When I was in University 40 years ago, I was a big fan of C++. However I never had the need to do any projects in this language so far. I did plenty of work in ABAP, Java and later on enjoyed the relaxed approach on the usage of semicolons in Javascript and I also did some work in Python. That changed when I discovered the world of Microprocessors and Arduino and I used C++ Read more
I had the need to pass some callback functions to some of my generic C++ Arduino classes. So I was asking myself if we can use Lambdas in Arduino. Here is a small test sketch, to verify this. #include “TestLambda.h” void setup() { auto f1 = [](int number) { Serial.println(number); }; LambdaTest t(f1); t.callLambda(123); } void loop() { } And here is the related TestLambda.h content: #include <functional> class LambdaTest { public: LambdaTest(std::function<void (int n)> Read more
I was looking for a Arduino library which would allow me to access remote files on a Linux server. Unfortunately I did not find anything that I liked. So I came up with my own solution which is based on FTP. The FTP protocol is one of oldest communication protocols: It is easy to implement and therefore rather efficient and you can find plenty of free server implementations on all platforms. The library provides a Read more