Thursday, March 24, 2016

Introduction to LCDs technology

Introduction to LCDs technology

This article gives an overview of the LCD technologies. It is a first step for who might want to design an embedded system with a color (touch) display. How does it work An LCD is an array of Liquid Crystal segments. These segments are polarized and organized randomly when

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Convert SQL Server Compact database (*.sdf) to SQLite3 (*.db)

Convert SQL Server Compact database (*.sdf) to SQLite3 (*.db)

To do this, you will need: Visual Studio 2012 or 2013 (2010 would probably work too. However, it won't work with 2015 as Microsoft dropped the support for SQL Server Compact databases) In Visual Studio: Open your project (or create one) with Visual Studio. On the left-side panel,

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Windows IoT Core on Raspberry Pi 2

Windows IoT Core on Raspberry Pi 2

Pre-requisite If you want to run Windows IoT Core on your RPI, you must have a desktop computer running Windows 10. The tools used to prepare the SD card cannot run otherwise. Download tools Go to : http://ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/Downloads.htm and download: IoT Dashboard Windows IoT for Raspberry Pi 2 (iso
Porting a VB.NET app to linux with Mono

Porting a VB.NET app to linux with Mono

I recently faced an interesting challenge : porting an existing VB.NET industrial application to linux. The code was running on Windows CE 5.0 until then with the compact framework 3.5. This work was motivated by the desire of the company to reduce the costs of our future equipments. Knowing
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