ArduPico

ArduPico – An Arduino-style Carrier for the Raspberry Pi Pico board To start exploring the (new) Raspberry Pi Pico, I did make a small carrier board with Arduino R3 compatible form factor. Due to the 3.3V nature of the Raspberry Pi Pico, all I/O is 3.3V only. Schematics Meep Meep – He’s fast! As a …

gawk Networking: UDP Examples (working version)

Gawk provides built-in networking support. The gawk manual has some examples, for basic UDP-communication at [1]. The classical sender/receiver code snippets are as follows: # Server BEGIN { print strftime() |& “/inet/udp/8888/0/0” close(“/inet/udp/8888/0/0”) } # Client BEGIN { “/inet/udp/0/localhost/8888” |& getline print $0 close(“/inet/udp/0/localhost/8888”) } Unfortunately these examples did not work on my test system …

HOWTO: VirtualBox Guest Additions

From the official documentation it is not very clear, how to install the guest additions necessary to use shared folders. Here’s how it works: VirtualBox Guest Additions is a .iso file, that can be downloaded from here (for version 4.6.3): http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.6/ The file in question is  “VBoxGuestAdditions_4.6.3.iso”. Download it and burn it onto a CD. …

Notes for setting up the CC2530 Mini Kit

The PDF-file for the “CC2530ZNP Mini Kit quick start guide rev. A”  is located at http://www.ti.com/litv/pdf/swru268a It mentions some software examples and drivers, which are not easily to find … The CC2530ZNP start page is at http://www.ti.com/tool/cc2530zdk-znp-mini which points to the CC2530ZDK-ZNP-MINI at http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/CC2530ZDK-ZNP-MINI which in turn (link just above “More Informations”) points to the …