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This is part 10 in are tang nano series which is a sort of milestone, so we wanted to do something a bit different for this article. In this article we will be going full-circle back to the LED counter example where it all started, but this time we will be implementing the project using software. T

Up until now we have been dealing with all our procedural tasks by creating state machines that would advance step by step through a process. This is great for simpler tasks, but for more complex tasks it can grow out of hand quickly if proper care isn't made to craft the correct building blocks

Some projects require having multiple modules use a common resource. This could be for a number of reasons like the common device might be an external peripheral (e.g. sensor / storage device) or it may be an expensive module so it might be to save on internal resources. Whatever the reason for doin

In this article we will be taking a look at generating pseudo-random numbers using an LFSR (Linear Feedback Shift Register) and look at how one can be used as part of a larger application. 🗒️This is part 7 of our on-going series on the Tang Nano 9K. The full series can be viewed here. The LFSR

In this article we will be taking a look at the onboard external flash that comes on the Tang Nano9K. The onboard flash provides a whopping 4MB of storage which is both useful for applications where you need a lot of data, or even in applications where you simply want to store persistent data which

In this article we will go through different methods of converting data for display and we will be combining all the modules we created up until now in-order to wrap up our OLED mini project. The Goal We will be building a project that splits the screen into 4 rows like in the previous article, b

In the previous article (here) we developed a screen driver core which allows us to render pixels onto an OLED screen. In this article we will be building a text engine on top of our pixel driver to give us an easy abstraction for rendering text to pixels. Drawing Text In-order to draw text we ne

This is part 3 in our Tang Nano 9K series. In this article we will be starting a mini-project creating an OLED text engine core. This series will go through the entire process from concept to implementation to demonstrate not just the code but also the design process and considerations taken when c