Microsoft announced the Azure Sphere product at Build in April but the hardware wasn’t publicly available until just a few days ago. For some background, check the following two links Azure Sphere website Background blog post explaining the concept Strictly … Continue reading
So, what happened to the Raspberry Pi project? Well, I did publish a BSP. However, I never did get the USB driver working properly. It was on GitHub for a while but without activity, it’s been purged. If you want … Continue reading
I’m not a Linux guy, so the first thing I thought when I saw news articles on the device was if I could get Windows Compact 7 (Windows CE) running on the device. It seemed to be a challenge right … Continue reading
The Raspberry Pi is a revolutionary computer. Not because it’s fast, although it does okay. It’s because the Raspberry Pi costs only $35. For that you get an ARM based Broadcomm CPU, 256 Meg of RAM, 2 USB ports, an … Continue reading
The Embedded world has both seen significant change and not so much change since Microsoft introduced Windows CE 1.0 back in 1996. Back then, when Microsoft introduced a fully featured GUI based operating system, one of the touted features was … Continue reading
You may notice a bit of a change. I’ve updated my site and blog. I hope to bring new and interesting content to the blog. Let me know what you think.
Microsoft has (finally) announced Windows Embedded Compact 7. The release would more appropriately be called Windows CE 7 but the marketing people decided they knew better. This is a significant update to Windows CE (oops, Compact, or Embedded Compact, or … Continue reading
There is a huge amount of interest in the new Windows Phone platform. This new platform is new and cool and provides a great platform for applications. The new Windows Phone programming model uses a custom built Silverlight runtime to … Continue reading
Okay, I’m not the best blogger in the world. Actually, I’ve been a horrible blogger. Aside from the trip blog I did last year, my last post was 2 years ago… Still, I’m going to try, try again. Windows Phone … Continue reading
I have a Thinkpad T60p and I wanted to upgrade to one of these new 7200 RPM 320G disks. I purchased a Seagate Momentus drive and, as I’ve done with other disk upgrades, just plugged the drive into the laptop … Continue reading
Microsoft announced the Azure Sphere product at Build in April but the hardware wasn’t publicly available until just a few days ago. For some background, check the following two links Azure Sphere website Background blog post explaining the concept Strictly … Continue reading
