It’s time for real-time
For some time, I’ve been doodling around with various open-source Real-time operating system (RTOS) options out there. There are quite a few out there to get lost in… But first, what is an RTOS, and...
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As promised yesterday, here’s an example sketch which uses the ChibiOS RTOS to create a separate task for keeping an LED blinking at 2 Hz, no matter what else the code is doing: #include...
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A real-time operating system is a fairly tricky piece of software, even with a small RTOS – because of the way it messes with several low-level details of the running code, such as stacks and...
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Idling in low-power mode
With a real-time operating system, going into low-power mode is easy. Continuing the recent ChibiOS example, here is a powerUse.ino sketch which illustrates the mechanism: #include...
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