Links for June 2013

• PCB design for high pin count SMD components: ever wondered why they "stupidly" don't put via in BGA pads? Here's why, vividly explained: http://blog.screamingcircuits.com/via_in_pad.html (other blog posts are insightful too).

Links for May 2013

I didn't post "Links" topics for a while - that's of course not because there're no interesting projects around, but because there're too many and you can't keep up with them ;-). Anyway, not collecting links to them doesn't help either, so:

• openFrameworks - C++ framework to glue together ~20 well-known technologies and libraries, mostly for visualization, UI and multimedia (all collectively "creative arts coding")
• Cinder - Another C++ contender from the similar area
• Emscripten - "An LLVM-to-JavaScript Compiler" (C, C++ compilation to JavaScript)
• asm.js - "An extraordinarily optimizable, low-level subset of JavaScript", from Emscripten authors.
• "List of languages that compile to JS"- from CoffeeScript authors.

Links for December 2012

• Energy Micro EFM32 "Tiny Gecko" Developer Board - Impressions and open source tools usage thinking
• EFM32STK linux toolchain - Blogpost on using EFM32STK under Linux
• https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded - Cortex-M targeted toolchain from Ubuntu developers, binary tarball releases
• J-Link downloads -Tools/drivers for JTAG/SWD controller as included in EFM32STK boards, including for Linux
• EnergyMicro downloads - Official EnergyMicro downloads, including Linux tools

Links for September 2012

• Arduino-IRremote multi-protocol IR library
• MSP430G2xxx parametric search (also, parametric search for other TI MCU families)

Links for August 2012

• Using native Android USB Host API - kind of libusb within Android.
• USB Host for Nook Simple Touch Reader
• ELLCC - Project to bring decent cross-compiling support to LLVM (currently cross-compiling is rather neglected by LLVM mainline)
• Blueman - GTK+ Bluetooth Manager
• hidclient - Forward local input devices via Bluetooth HIDP
• Using the PlayStation 3 controller in Bluetooth mode with Linux - This is about "Sixaxis" game controller, not BD Remote, but confirms that PS3 likes adhoc pairing stuff instead of true Bluetooth one.

Links for November 2011

Kindle:

• Amazon Kindle official GPL source code
• Kindle keyboard shortcuts and other reference
• Latest jailbreak appears to be one from NiLuJe (forum). It's known to work with firmware 3.3. Hacks/updates should be copied to Kindle USB drive root.
• SirAlex's page
• Intro for writing kindlets
  

Linux kernel module tricks:

• How to bind Linux driver to device whose IDs it doesn't know (yet), without recompiling
• Building a kernel module separately
(build module from a kernel source tarball using currently installed kernel config)

Links for September 2011

Speech synthesis/TTS links, focusing on Russian:

OpenSource:

• FestLang, Festival voices for different languages, in particular, Russian.
• VoxForge, speech corpus collection site
• AOT, automated text processing (Russian)
• RHVoice, mailing list archive (Russian)

Links for June 2011

• http://sigrok.org/ - OpenSource logic analyzer software supporting lot of hardware analyzers (C++/Qt, protocol plugins in Python)
• http://dangerousprototypes.com/2010/07/23/logic-analyzer-client-roundup/ - Logic analyzer client roundup
• http://blog.visucore.com/categories/embedded - Blog posts about using and hacking USBee SX. In particular, how to find UART pins on a device using it; how to replace firmware with self-compiled using SDCC, etc.
• http://openenergymonitor.org/ - Open Energy Monito
• On accuracy of (commercially available) power meters:
• Lies, Damn Lies and Cheap Power Meters
• That one lying disassembled with blob chip, but with potentiometers to calibrate
• Comparing KaW and a clone with industrial piece
• http://www.pupman.com/listarchives/2005/Aug/msg00936.html 

Links for February 2011

• http://notioninkhacks.com/ - Portal and forum

Links for January 2011

• mbed.org - Kind of Arduino for NXP microcontrollers. There are interesting algos, like JTAG Search.
• nookdevs.com - Hacking B&N Nook eReaders. For example, NookColor Hardware specs.
• novaports.org - Another embedded/Android/Nook hacking portal, features destructive teardown.
• http://wiki.osdev.org/ - OS Development Encyc
• Open Source J2ME software

Some WinCE links

• Enlightment on WinCE
• Qt/KDE on WInCE - includes notes on CAB packaging using pocketpc-cab script and lcab
• Windows CE .NET Advanced Memory Management (CE 3.0/4.x) 
• Windows Mobile 6.1 Memory Management Changes (CE 5.x)
• Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Advanced Memory Management