Blog Archive: November 2024
Oh those crazy young people in Europe...
On July 28th, 2005 In Software
Apparently every four years young hackers in Europe get together and make
a sort of tent city. It's called "whathehack"
It looks like fun, at least if you like laptops and beer
Digikey and FreeScale contest with HC12 chip
On July 28th, 2005 In Technology
Digikey and Freescale have created an interesting contest around a new HC12
chip. The chip is interesting as it's an SOC with ethernet, an HC12 16 bit
cpu, ram and flash. It also has SPI and I2C ports.
The contest is interesting in that you submit a proposal. The best 10
proposals are picked and given an eval board. They have 2 months to
HDLC drivers for MPC 8xx
On July 28th, 2005 In Technology
This is not very exiting, but people have been asking me about it. I have a small collection of MPC 8xx (850, 823e, 860) HDLC drivers. Most present a network interface but one I hacked allows userland access to the HDLC frames and modloadable 'filters' in the kernel which can do basic protocol work.
Here's the tar