Harlock – A small language to handle hex and elf files

This is a simple program that blinks a led on an ATMega644 AVR microcontroller, a classic first application used a lot as a sort of hello world in embedded C:

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Embedded Logs – From scratch pt.2: Designing a simple ATMega-based board

ATMega microcontrollers are part of the 8-bit megaAVR family, based on the AVR architecture; they are among the most used microcontrollers, especially by hobbyists, since they are quite simple to use, also thanks to the widespread support of open-source tools.

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Embedded Logs – From scratch pt.1: Setting up the environment with AVR-GCC, Make & CMake

Have you ever wanted to make your own development board, with full control over the hardware and software design process?

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Tutorial – Using MQTT with Python (Part 1): The Client class

MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) is an application level protocol that works on a TCP stack and is based on the publish/subscribe paradigm; we already talked a bit about MQTT in this article.

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