Sometimes I should listen to my own advice
Posted on 19th Feb 2020
I've been working on the software for the Web connected thermostat. But I ran into a gotcha, that stumped me for a couple days. I had the button debounce working fine until...
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BASIC for Nucleo STM32F411
Posted on 12th Feb 2020
We've put together an evaluation release of our ARM BASIC compiler for the Nucleo PCB with the STM32F411. This is a free download for personal, educational, and commercial evaluation.
Assembling the web connected thermostat
Posted on 9th Feb 2020
Putting the pieces together, and squeezing into the matching enclosure (matching the rest of the house that is).
ESP testing for Web connected Thermostat
Posted on 4th Feb 2020
Getting ready to build up the final Web enabled thermostat. For this version in order to fit inside the housing the ESP8266 has to be soldered into the PCB. That means I wanted to update the firmware and check its operation before soldering it in.
Ladder Logic to BASIC update
Posted on 16th Jan 2020
Leonardo from Universidade Regional de Blumenau in Brazil sent me some updates to his Ladder logic to BASIC translator. It now will launch a program on any of our boards running BASIC. And he has added a manual.
User input adds features
Posted on 10th Jan 2020
Over the years feedback from our users has suggested improvements and new features. Recently to enable the auto-include feature for both Arduino and existing boards running BASIC, we generate an _includeALL.bas file that contains the user BASIC program as well as the needed register definition file. But this made error reporting a bit misleading for errors like missing ENDIF. One of our users pointed this out, so we took a look at improvements.