Get the STM32F429 Discovery board running on Mac OSX
Quite a while ago I bought myself a stm32f4 discovery board, with the intention of putting my hands on 32-bit microcontroller programming. The chip on the board, the stm32f429, is a Cortex-M4 powerhouse with 2 Megabytes of flash and 256 kilobytes of RAM, as well as many peripherals and built-in dedicated logic to compute CRC…
Turning an old “brick” cellphone into a data transmitting device
I’ve never liked throwing away working electronics. The same counts for old cellphones. As I got my first smartphone a long time back, I kept my “brick” phone, thinking about doing something with it one day. This day came in May 2014, when I decided to revolve my next project around putting this old phone…