Software Real Time Clock (RTC) for the dsPIC33EP512MC502
Although the dsPIC33EP512MC502 does not have an integrated Real Time Clock (RTC) for time keeping, this can easily be overcome by configuring
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Software Development
Opening Office 2007 documents on Windows 98
On my old but trusted Windows 98 laptop, which is used mostly for DOS and early Windows games, there is an occasional
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Tweaking the AlphaSmart Neo, a great portable word processor with 700-hour battery life
Although I really love my AlphaSmart Dana, its limited battery life which requires recharging every couple of days as well as the
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Flueron, V380 Pro and Raspberry Pi Zero as wireless CCTV cameras
A while ago I wrote a few articles describing how to use the Flueron, V380 Pro as well as the Raspberry Pi
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HP Stream 14-bs153od 64GB eMMC 14″ laptop
I received the HP Stream 14-bs153od 14″ laptop with 64GB eMMC and 4GB RAM from a friend and spent a
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Using Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless as cheap CCTV camera replacement
I have a bunch of unused Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless and associated camera boards from previous projects and decide to use
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Reverse engineer the 360Eyes Pro (IPC365) wireless CCTV camera
Available on AliExpress, the 360Eyes Pro (also known as IPC365, from the default network host name of this camera) is
Read moreHandling NSInvalidArgumentException “Pushing the same view controller instance more than once is not supported” in an iOS application
When debugging my iOS app, I discovered that the following apparently innocent code sometimes caused the app to crash due
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Simulating key presses on Android devices
I need to develop an application that is capable of communicating with another Android application to perform a few specific
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Playing Alley Cat, a classic MS-DOS game, from your web browser
Last week I explored gabonator’s Visual C++ and Javascript port of Alley Cat, one of my favourite DOS games. The project, despite being apparently
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Developing vintage 68K Macintosh apps with CodeLite IDE, Retro68 and pce-macplus emulator
In my previous post I described how Retro68 can be used to compile 68K Macintosh apps from your modern Linux
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