Introduction

Hello guys,

How have you been doing?

This is my very first blog post. So allow me to introduce myself. I am a Brazilian Electrical Engineer working with embedded systems in the last three years. My job deals with firmware development for dental equipment and I really like it, not only because of how challenge it is, but the fact that I learn a new topic every day.

The aim of this blog is to show you my projects that I do as a hobby (It explains the name of this blog =D). At first, I will be using the Freescale Freedom Development Platform FRDM-K64F. This board mainly features a Kinetis Arm Cortex M4 MK64FN1M0VLL12 MCU (running up to 120 MHz, 1 MB flash memory and 256 KB SRAM), RGB LED, FXOS8700CQ accelerometer and magnetometer, two user push buttons, Ethernet, micro SD card and so on. One advantage of this development board is the compatibility of its I/O headers with Arduino  R3 connectors.

In order to edit, compile and debug my projects, I will be using the Kinetis Design Studio (KDS) IDE, which is a free Eclipse based tool chain. KDS is a new IDE launched in Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) in Dallas last April. It supports debugger for P&E, Segger J-Link and OpenOCD. This IDE has integrated the well-known Processor Expert software, that helps to save time when setting the MCU peripherals.

Next post, I will bring my first project to you. To summarize, I will apply a HC-06 bluetooth module to connect to and get information from my FRDM-K64F board. :D

Thank you guys and see you next time!!!