This document records the complete process of bringing up and debugging a custom UART-based LiDAR sensor on a ROS2 (Humble) robot platform. The LiDAR streams raw distance frames via /dev/ttyUSB0, ...

It uses an ESP32-S3 device combined with a PC program that runs on Windows. This tool captures UART signals in real-time and shows you detailed information about your data including packet drops, ...

The Bus Pirate is a very popular open-source hardware and protocol debugging tool among the electronics community. Dangerous Prototypes, the developer of the Bus Pirate, has announced the launch of ...

Beyond Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor company based in Slovenia which develops their own 32-bit BA2x IP cores, has sent me one of their development tool, namely Beyond Debug Key supporting ...

The microcontroller (MCU) is a brilliant invention, but it can be truly frustrating when it doesn’t function as expected. Most issues can be traced back to one of two things: a failure to understand a ...

Have you ever used the term UART only to be corrected by another engineer that it isn’t a UART but USART? In certain circumstances the interchangeability of these ...

Chu Tien Thinh, an electronics engineer and enthusiast, has created a highly portable debug and test tool named Felini, designed to provide numerous hardware control and debugging functionalities in a ...