The iPhone and iPod touch are able to ’stream’, open MP4, MP3, AAC, M4V, and M4B files over an http connection. So when visiting a website you are able to click on a url, and QuickTime will start playing your file. This works fine when using a HTTP connection, strange things begin to happen when [...]

Controlling USB connections to an embedded system can be a real pain. Fortunately many suppliers also ship their product with an BSP. I’ve made some adjustments to one of the examples to enable communication between the device and an C++ program.
Using Microchip’s framework by using IDE: Visual C++, MPlab (the worst IDE ever), you can [...]

Java Native Interface allows to access native C/ C++ files. When an error occurs Java throws an UnstatisfiedLinkError. Java is an OO programming language who needs help to access Native C/ C++ files, a java class file implements all functions from the C/C++ file. Via this Java class native functions can be addressed, it’s kind [...]

Remember I was busy working with interrupts, next step is to use them in a sensible way. To simplify the software I’m using interrupts for switching to the next frame.
Led cubes display multiple patterns in a sequence. Just like a movie a Cube is made up out of frames, every frame representing an image. Luckily [...]

I’m working on a new project at school. This time it’s all about an Embedded system. Programmable in C18 ( Microchip’s ripoff of regular C99? ) on the PIC 18f4550 the same device I’ve used for my PONG on glcd.
For this project I’m going to build a LED cube. Here suppose to be a boring text about LED [...]