Entries for 'Alex Krejcie'
With IoT solutions becoming more and more important in product design, DMC has been very interested in the viability of wireless devices as tools to solve new problems.
LoRa, is one of the new solutions that provide viable results for use cases th...
Recently, some of us at DMC have been interested in the capabilities of the LoRa protocol. We were curious about how far it could actually transmit. The theoretical range of a device is very long—upwards of 500 miles, but without knowing f...
Today, I want to detail a couple of cool tricks to use Segger Real Time Transfer with an EFM32 to create an easy-to-view trace log. Segger Real Time Transfer, or RTT for short, is a debugging interface designed specifically around the J-Lin...
In January of 2016, Google released an Android app called Cardboard Camera, which can turn a single smartphone camera into an impressive 3D panoramic image-making machine.
Using this tutorial, we learned how to convert those images into a 360 view...
With the wide adoption of smartphones and the attractive market for the Internet of Things (IOT) and other accessories, Bluetooth connectivity has made its way into many products and most people’s daily life. In the last five years there has li...
In this video, I'll give you an overview of the USB charging specification, how it came to be and the limitations and hardware design of each charging port.
In this video, I'll give you a brief overview of implementing the Android Open Accessory Protocol (AOA) using an FTDI 311/312.
AOA is a protocol designed by google to allow android devices to connect with a wide variety of external peripherals...
In order to support development, deployment, and management of a customer’s embedded device, DMC developed a simple windows GUI using C# and WPF to assist in programming and configuring the device. The program uses a single USB connection for b...
If you have been following DMC I’m sure you’ve seen or heard of our awesome tilt table demo. The latest big news is that our demo has made a leap into the future. That’s right, were talking about Virtual Reality! Not those silly adv...
In Part 1, I talked about how battery capacity is rated and how certain conditions can affect relative battery capacity. This case study will specifically focus on a solution DMC provided for a low power embedded application designed around user inte...