VSCode for everything

Atmel Microchip Studio 1 1/2 years ago now I have finally abandoned Microchip (Atmel) Studio for programming AVR microcontrollers. I have been using Atmel Studio from the very first day I have been programming AVR microcontrollers and I have been following it through the version 4 to 7. But already a couple of years ago… Continue reading VSCode for everything

The TIAN MA A2C00096100 LCD

The electronics distributor https://www.pollin.de/ is often selling surplus displays, but normally these are not very well documented. The TIAN MA A2C00096100  LCD module is a 90 mm x 20 mm character display with on-board chip-on-glass controller. It has 20 alphanumeric character positions, actually 18+2 since there is a vertical 1-pixel wide bar separating the last… Continue reading The TIAN MA A2C00096100 LCD

Temperature measurements with an NTC thermistor

Following a discussion on Facebook I put here an online tool to calculate the output of a voltage divider consisting of a fixed resistor and an NTC thermistor following a first order Steinhart–Hart equation. The calculations are based on a voltage divider where either the voltage over the NTC or over the pass resistor is… Continue reading Temperature measurements with an NTC thermistor

Some Toner-Transfer PCB Highlights

0.5 mm pitch FPC breakout board - soldered

Some recent highlights from my home-made circuit boards using the toner-transfer method. 0.5 mm FPC breakout board Yes, I have been told that I am crazy before… Designed in KiCAD   TQFP32 controller board (student project) This one is actually not my design and it was drawn in Altium.   433 MHz wireless sensor node… Continue reading Some Toner-Transfer PCB Highlights

Canvas: Using Python to create Calculated Questions

Background I just recently started with Canvas because Uppsala University has decided to use it as its upcoming LMS platform after a failed attempt with another product. Therefore I had already spent some time with Blackboard and was quite fond of the calculated questions type in quizzes. I quickly found out that Canvas offers essentially… Continue reading Canvas: Using Python to create Calculated Questions