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carlb last won the day on October 16 2017

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  1. There's a decoupling cap after the input jack (to block DC), then the common type of precision rectifier (made using opamps and diodes), which then uses the capacitor to store the peak voltage, which the LM3915 displays. That was a classic circuit in the electronics hobbyist mags 30 to 40 years ago (along with the classic 741 opamps of the time). You'll find plenty of other precision rectifier and peak detector circuits (with varying hold times which you can easily tweak) on the web, old books, and even in the LM3915 datasheet itself. For the bar/dot mode switching, it's just a matter of
  2. Yes, it's certainly hard to make time for it sometimes (work, kids and all) but I managed to get half-way into lab 6 so far. I should be done this weekend. I already paid for the verified certificate too. As for the parameters, well, yeah. There's a lot of "magic numbers" used to chat with the CC2650 app (all listed in the datasheet). It's pretty usable once you abstract it away though. Edit: ALL DONE! Finally! 100% on all... Glad to see that certificate!
  3. I just bought a couple licenses and barely had any time to play with them too. It would be kinda poor business to hand out free licenses with launchpads and then the month after come out with a new version that costs hundreds in upgrade.
  4. Cheaper, but not nearly cheap enough IMO. All displays are around $30. The monochrome ones (all 2.x inch) are similar, and cost a little a bit less if they have a lower resolution mainly. Color versions are the same price but are much smaller (1.x inch instead of the 2.x inch). Meanwhile, you can get great LCD modules for dirt cheap. For example, a 3.5" 320x480 color LCD (ILI93xx chipset, with HC595's to use it via SPI) and a resistive touch panel (with generic XPT2046 touch controller, which also uses SPI), for which you can find plenty of example code all-around the web... $10 on ebay (d
  5. I just started it yesterday too. I'm kinda late to the party so I figured I'd try to catch-up as much as possible. I've done all of chapter 1 and lab 1 yesterday and watched all of chapter 2 today. I'll do lab 2 tomorrow. There was a LOT of material in chapter 2! None of it is super complicated but there's still a lot of it. It's great to see and understand how an RTOS works though! I'll certainly go for the verified certificate like for the previous course!
  6. I replaced all of mine (about 5 minutes of work each). I've confirmed that blinky works.
  7. It's orderable for sure http://imgur.com/a/M7i0e Sorry for the poor phone photo...
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