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Hey all. Hope you enjoyed the last post. This post deals with LUFA , the lightweight USB framework for AVRs, which is a...framework...for building USB devices using USB-capable AVR chips. I first came across LUFA a year or two ago when researching doing just that. Back then, I used AVR Studio 4.x, and getting LUFA to compile was no mean task. I have no idea how I managed. Anyone who's had to use LUFA in the past will testify. Its a great project in itself..compiling and using it seems to have a bit of a learning curve though. However, Atmel have since updated their IDE and its bigger and meaner than ever before..enter Atmel Studio! The most current version is Atmel Studio 6.1, which is built on a VS2010 shell. Essentially this means it looks alot like VS2010, and has quite a number of similiarities to it. One of them is the use of extensions. Dean Camera, the creator of LUFA, recently released an extension for AS6.1 which greatly simplifies using LUFA. You still need to know a...

Hey all. Tons of apologies for the silence. I've been extremely busy with the said Industrial Attachment. Apparently real-life work takes it out of you. I hope you've all been doing well, and things have been going great on your various ends of the world. Today I'm going to talk about getting Qt 5.1.0 (latest and greatest at the time of this writing) working with Signal11's HIDAPI , a cross-platform wrapper library for communicating with HID devices. This is particularly useful to me, on account of the fact that I happen to own a Teensy 2.0 which lets me run LUFA , a USB framework for AVR Microcontrollers which simplifies (greatly, let me tell you) the process of building custom USB devices. A year or so ago I happened to do just that: a custom HID device I could control from a PC with custom software written in C# using this library. However, its immediately apparent that such a program could only ever run on Windows. What if I needed to make it cross-platform? A...

Hey all...some...anybody. Once again, sorry for the silence. But I have some..good news. I've now finished my 400L First (and only, thankfully) semester exams, and so for the next six months I'm free as a bird  going to be on Industrial Attachment. Hopefully that'll give me enough time to work on my personal projects and naturally learn a thing or two, while keeping you abreast of what will be cooking. Perhaps I'll return in a week or two. Till then, don't hold your breath :-P M.

Heyy. Its been a while..six months, perhaps? Sorry I've been gone. There's been a crapload of work to do, both in school and out, and I guess I just got caught up. I'll be back soon though, maybe in a month, maybe sooner. And then I'll explain everything. Hang in there!

Hey all. So, another hectic week of tests but its been pretty okay..not too much sweat :-) So, preparations for Engineering Week are underway...magazine launch, customized tee-shirts and Auditions for the exhibition projects. And I hear I'm to be a judge! But only if I behave.. Like before, categories include software, embedded systems, game design and pretty much anything that sounds remotely techy. I'm actually looking forward to this. I'm pretty sure we're going to see some really wild projects. Will you keep you posted as events unfold. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for comments regarding the Intro to AVRs series. Just drop a line (and leave your email address) in the comments and I'll email it to you. And as promised, here's what we need to begin speech recognition in C#.NET 4.0 (should work from dotNet Framework 3.5 I think): A computer running Visual C# Express 2010 or Visual Studio 2010 A working microphone (the integrated mic array on most ...

Hi all. Excuse the long delay between posts. Its been a rather hectic week here at the DEE (tests all over the place :-x). Its still a busy set of weeks, but I missed my computer so much we're having a fun afternoon together ;-) If I recall correctly, I said something about talking about Microcontrollers and things related to them. Starting out roughly three years ago was a very sucky experience-at first. There never seemed to be one guide to understanding everything you needed to know. Hence three years later, I began to pen a small piece on AVRs, hoping to ease the process for anyone interested. There are two of them, but I'm going to upload only one. It needs lots of work but with your help and comments I'm sure we can get it off the ground. If you like it enough, I'll post the other and hopefully subsequent pieces. Although due to limitations on Blogspot, you'll need to drop a line in the comments so I can get it across to you. I'll see if I can get hosti...

Hey all. This is my first Blogger post ever so don't mind me if its a bit unexciting. I'm currently a 300L student of the DEE-ABU (if you know what that means, great :-D ) with numerous interests..microcontrollers primarily, then everything else..programming, electronics, computers, anime, the works. I'm a die-hard Naruto fan and I like a bit of One Piece too :-) That also means I dabble alot in a thousand and one things sometimes simultaneously, basically moving from one thing to the next so please try not to mind me..but I'll try to keep it light and interesting. I don't have much of a skillset due to my dabbling nature, but my fortes (if I have any) would be C#.NET and AVR Microcontrollers. Because I'm such a C# buff, I'm also interested in the .NET Micro Framework as well ( Wikipedia: .NET Micro Framework ) and subsequently own a FEZ Panda II board which I seldom toy with (although with this blog, I intend to use it more and more ;-) ) Also know a thin...