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Webstore is back online

Webstore is back online

Posted on 7th Oct 2020

If it's not one thing it's another. About 10 days ago PayPal decided to change something and our orders were getting rejected. Some persistent customers tried every browser they could, different credit cards, and nothing got through. Calls into PayPal did not help much, and A2hosting was out of their depth as well. Luckily Kym from ozEworks got us back up.

Raspberry Pi Interface

Raspberry Pi Interface

Posted on 15th Sep 2020

Sometimes you want to monitor a running ARM BASIC board. Now a PC can do it for a while, but sometimes it goes to sleep, sometimes Microsoft tries to update it, sometimes who knows. So an alternative would be to use a more predictable device, such as a Raspberry Pi. They are cheap, very low power and predictable.

New Extended BASIC debug tool

New Extended BASIC debug tool

Posted on 21st Aug 2020

Tod W is one of Coridium's long time users, going back to the days of the Parallax BASIC stamp replacement called the ARMexpress. Over the years he has made invaluable contributions to the BASIC tools, both pushing for floating point addition, then writing the library for the same. Even in the early days, he was not content with our BASIC tools, using Notepad++ and AutoHotKey to add features. His use of Notepad++ predated its integration into our tools, as I was stubornly holding onto earlier editors, even as they blue-screened newer versions of Windows. Not content with some limitations of BASICtools, Tod began taking our Tcl sources and expanding them to his liking. Some of those features we liked and were inspired (i.e. plagiarized) to add them back into the stock BASICtools (bubble help, command scrolling, others I can't recall). Tod has taken the time to document his Extended BASIC tools (EBT) and with the testing of Olzeke has decided it is time to release it.

Lots of serial ports on the LPC54016

Lots of serial ports on the LPC54016

Posted on 1st Aug 2020

The custom design of an LPC54016 we just completed, has been built, debugged, and delivered to the customer. A new trend is for serial peripherals to be combined and then configured in software. This is true of the LPC54016 which has Flexcomms that can be used as UARTs, I2Cs, SPIs and some for I2S.

History scrolling added

Posted on 17th Jul 2020

Scrolling history for commands and searches have been added to the MakeItC and BASICtools.

uChip speaks to you

uChip speaks to you

Posted on 8th Jul 2020

Tod has been busy, he wanted to hear our boards driven from BASIC, so starting with an Epson S1V30120 speech synthesis IC on a TextToSpeech Click module, he translated the library from C to BASIC (no small task) and then brought that code up on our SuperPRO, the Itaca uChip and other SAMD21 boards.