Testing the LEDs and Button 1 on the ChipKit I/O with KL25

As part of a research project I'm resurrecting some KL25Z boards and ChipKit basic I/O shield boards and seeing if they can be used together. The ChipKit has some pushbuttons and LEDs. The following code, with the help of single-stepping and the debugger can get the LED bank and BTN1 on the ChipKit I/O board […]

Sabbatical Report: Teaching a compressed class in Germany

While I was on sabbatical from York University I had the opportunity to teach twice at the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe, Germany (Hochschule Karlsruhe, a.k.a HsKa).  I had been invited to do so by Professor Klemens Gintner, a colleague and friend who I had hosted during his sabbatical in Toronto in 2015. It […]