When it comes to discussing subjects that are grossly misunderstood in the technical community, RTOS (Real Time Operating Systems) would surely be a strong contender. This is an attempt to throw some light on the capabilities of an RTOS and refrain engineers from having undue expectations from it.
The other day, while [...]

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Post the SNAKE game on uNiBoard v1.1, we present one more game (Arkanoid) based on uNiBoard v1.1 running on  uC/OS-II. Here goes the video.

Author: Mr. Nitin Gadmale (Student: ERTOS)
For all uNiBoard v1.1 related downloads: http://code.google.com/p/uniboard/downloads/list

Heard about Internet enabled refrigerators lately ? The “Chip” inside monitors the milk level inside and notifies you on your cell-phone, and as soon as you give your nod, it orders the milk from one of the “online” shopping-malls. ‘Not practical…’ you may say, but the technology behind it is definitely worth checking out. Web [...]

It started off with CDAC Hyderabad, the traveling streak for uNiBoard continued with CDAC Pune and lately with the Indian Air Force, HQ – Eastern Air Command, Shillong.
 
Since last month, with all these orders in the pipeline (now accomplished) we decided to change the uNiBoard v1.1 packaging to a more robust and secure plastic [...]

I always believed that innovation exists at all levels, be it anything from product development to its marketing, documentation (yes, its true…), distribution and more. This belief was further reaffirmed by our management by quoting,
“Innovation creates success and being innovative in your business is one of the keys to being successful. Innovation [...]

I always believed that innovation exists at all levels, be it anything from product development to its marketing, documentation (yes, its true…), distribution and more. This belief was further reaffirmed by our management by quoting,
“Innovation creates success and being innovative in your business is one of the keys to being successful. Innovation [...]

Lets begin straightaway with an argument….The world is moving towards RS-232, USB, Fire-wire and other serial bus standards, so why do I still bother using the parallel port?
For starters we are talking about controlling motors here. When it comes to controlling such devices, it’s always the legendary parallel port that hobbyists have been resorting to, [...]

USB to serial converters are available in different brands, the most prominent among them being the one from BAFO Technologies.
Known Issues with the converter:

1.Gets detected only sometimes.
The connecting cable between the USB on the PC and the Device is slightly loose. So hold it together and see if it gets detected.
2.Device gets detected and installed [...]

If you are looking to use a File System in your embedded application, you will find that the EFSL (open source Embedded File System library) is very easy to use with any target controller. It also provides ported interfaces for latest ARM controllers such as SAM7 microprocessor from Atmel and LPC microprocessor [...]