Arduino on Nico Maas

Getting LoRaWAN working with STM32WL55 and Radiolib

Sun, 28 Jan 2024 17:24:03 +0000

Elektor was looking for some ideas regarding their STM32 Design Contest - and so I thought, why not putting the excellent work of the guys behind the RadioLib to good use and getting this board working in LoRaWAN (and it was easier than I thought :)):
https://www.elektormagazine.com/labs/getting-lorawan-working-with-stm32wl55-and-radiolib

RAK11300 - Getting it to work with Arduino-Pico and RadioLib!

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:08:49 +0000

Intro

About a year ago I got some RAK11300 modules - which are a nice combination of an RP2040 alongside a SX1262 radio on one module - designed a breakout board - tested it - and quickly shelved it. Reason was that this module was somewhat Arduino compliant - as stated - however only with RAKwireless Arduino mbedOS Repo. Alongside of it being a bit… hacked together, it had the issue of not supporting any low power modes for the RP2040 - making it run on both cores at full tilt and consuming batteries in no time. Not the best thing for a portable/battery powered sensor system, I guess?

Getting started with Infineon XMC for Arduino

Tue, 07 Mar 2017 16:45:09 +0000

Infineon created the ARM Cortex M Series “XMC” in 2012 to give their users access to a rich portfolio of different AMR Cortex M0+ and M4 MCUs. These Microcontrollers, being supported by powerful peripherals had support for two different IDEs: Keils MDK and Infineons DAVE. While Keil is the definitive choice for most professionals (and expensive…), DAVE was an self-developed plug-and-play kind of programming tool, using Eclipse as framework. However, both tools were directed towards professional endusers and developers, while hobbyists and makers with less experience in ARM Cortex programming would have a sturdy learning curve. Seeing that, and the first tests of the fanproject XMC-to-Arduino - Infineon decided to create an own boards package for the Arduino IDE. And thats what finally arrived some days ago :)!

[Win7+] Arduino 1.6.4+ Portable Installation

Sat, 20 Jun 2015 11:25:17 +0000

In the last months, a lot of new updates arrived from the Arduino front. The latest installment of the Arduino IDE is now 1.6.4 and got some really nice additions, i.e. an Board Manager to install board definitions from the net via one click, the Library Manager, line numbers and much more. However, given the nature of the Board Manager, it always installed the files somewhere on the Computer, i.e. the AppData folder - which not really made the Arduino IDE portable. However, with 1.6.3, this was fixed.

[Talk] Wearables & IoT Presentation

Sat, 24 May 2014 09:00:14 +0000

My introduction to Wearables & IoT at the Saarcamp 2014:

Download: IOT_Saarcamp.pdf (3 MB)

[Arduino] Intel Galileo Board Unboxing Video

Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:13:57 +0000

Hello there,

tonight I got my Intel Galileo Dev Board and I decided to do an Unboxing Video.

The first one for me - so.. be kind ;): Youtube

Regards,

Nico

elektor Live 2013

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:15:18 +0000

You can find my slides from the elektor Live 2013, Raspberry Pi 101 Workshop here: elektor_RPi_2013_Maas.pdf [ 6,1 MB ]

The handout or “cheat-sheet” can be downloaded here: elektor_RPi_2013_Maas_Cheat_Sheet.pdf [ 0,4 MB ]

… and finally, you find the Sourcecode of the Sample Projects here: elektor_RPi_2013_Maas_Sourcecode.zip [ 0,03 MB ]

Videorecording of the talk can be found here

elektor Expert Meeting 2013

Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:05:55 +0000

You can find my slides of the elektor Expert Meeting 2013 here: elektor_ER2013_Maas.pdf [1,2 MB]

Also, you can find my presentation to the sun//well (RPi, MSP430 and ATTiny85) project here as well as the video (PiAndMore 3 - sun//well Project) to that presentation.