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This Internet of Things example uses mbed"s networking features to display live RSS news feeds on the LCD. It is based on earlier networking examples from the cookbook that read a web page and the Text LCD library to display characters on a text LCD. CNN Technology news is used for the live RSS feed.
If you still get the net error message, make sure that DHCP service is enabled for your mbed. On some networks, you need to add the module"s MAC address to enable the DHCP server to give it an IP address. It times out with an error, if no IP address is returned in about fifteen seconds. If the news does not display on the LCD after seeing "net OK", you may have DNS problems or a very slow network.
Where N/C is not connected and the top left pin of the TextLCD’s header is GND and the right most pin is D7 in the LCD orientation shown in the images above. The resistor sets the contrast and some LCDs may need a different value or a contrast adjust potentiometer. See Text LCD for additional help, if needed.
(*) Note: some older LCDs may use 5V, but 3.3V is more common on current LCDs. If you cannot find a data sheet to confirm this, try 3.3V first and if the display is still blank (after double checking all other connections and code) it might need 5V. To save jumper wires, this setup uses the four bit interface to transfer ASCII characters to the LCD.
A small portion of the RSS news feed web page containing XML is seen below. The data displayed on the LCD is the title. The format is "
In the video above, mbed is powered up and obtains an IP address from the DHCP server. Net OK appears on the LCD. It then opens and reads a portion of the web page, searches for news items displaying them as they are found on the LCD and reads through the rest of the web page. When it reaches the end of the web page, "Read Complete" is displayed.
7. Use a Google RSS news feed. Google also has several RSS news feeds and news can be searched to generate a new RSS feed. Here is an example https://news.google.com/news/feeds?q=mbed&output=rss.
ARM"s mbed rapid prototyping solution pairs an NXP LPC1768 microcontroller, support components and smart USB interface with cloud-based tools to enable efficient evaluation of microcontroller capabilities and application prototyping. mbed looks for the technologies and tradeoffs that can optimize the time to get to a working prototype, enabling designers to quickly test, evaluate and demonstrate ideas early in the design cycle.
The industry has built excellent tools for embedded engineers to produce microcontroller designs once the desired specification is known. But when the task is to prove a concept or define a specification, even for experienced engineers, the risks and timescales often don"t add up. The result is that ideas don"t get tried; there is little iteration or design space exploration; the final design is also the prototype, or the specification is overly cautious. Given that in many cases the ideas, observations, and insights that could define these applications will be coming from people in other problem domains, these limitations are amplified. This has the potential to be a real barrier to adoption.
The underlying goal of mbed is to enable efficient evaluation of microcontroller capabilities and prototyping of the applications they can be applied to. In particular, it aims to match the design cycle times of other aspects of product design. The strategy (Figure 1) that helps realize this is to look for the technologies and trade-offs that can optimize the time to get to a working prototype, rather than optimizing the design itself.
For example, the trend in microcontrollers is an increasing performance and memory capacity for a fixed price. While most tools focus on enabling users to exploit this in the end capability of the applications that can be created, mbed, instead, focuses on using this performance and capacity to reduce the design challenge. A good example is providing high-level abstractions that make the functionality accessible at the cost of implementation efficiency and increased code size.
Ease of use is actually very dependent on context; most good tools are easy to use for the task they were intended. But for a different task, the results are unlikely to be the same. By clearly defining the context of rapid prototyping, it becomes much more meaningful to make design trade-offs focused on ease of use. For an embedded developer in the industry familiar with an existing proprietary architecture and toolchain, a change can be daunting with the additional negative feeling of going from expert to learner. These factors alone can be enough to put off exploring the benefits of moving to a modern solution. For a new user, the fear, uncertainty, and doubt can be equally prohibitive. This makes the initial experience critical; the tools must give results quickly with little investment, building trust and earning any further ongoing investment.
A goal for mbed is to get a new user running his first program as soon as possible, building confidence and trust in the hardware and software toolchain. The mbed tools have applied some novel technology to achieve this, and the results speak for themselves; you can get started in 60 seconds. This achievement means there is little excuse not to experiment.
Combined with the single hardware and library model, every other mbed user is developing in an identical environment. That makes community support much easier, as people can share problems and questions with a common context.
The mbed microcontroller hardware packages an NXP LPC1768 microcontroller, support components, and smart USB interface in a practical 40-pin 0.1" pitch DIP form-factor, ideal for experimenting on solderless breadboards, stripboards, and through-hole PCBs. To support the exposed interfaces, an mbed C/C++ library provides high-level interfaces to microcontroller peripherals, enabling a clean, compact, API-driven approach to coding. The combination gives immediate connectivity to peripherals and modules for prototyping and iteration of microcontroller-based system designs, providing developers with the freedom to be more innovative and more productive.
Figure 4 shows the basic mbed microcontroller pinout, indicating the availability and location of the interface resources. The interfaces indicated match those found in the mbed library. This highlights some of the key benefits of them being developed together. The API provides an abstract peripheral interface rather than being implementation specific. The libraries use object-orientation, which maps well to tangible physical hardware resources. The hardware, libraries, and documentation share the same naming and concepts for interfaces.
For example, mbed avoids requiring the multiple levels of indirection that are usually needed for pinout and resource allocation. These tend to loose meaning and introduce bugs.
A similar example of capturing intent is shown in Figure 6. In this case, a function is setup to be called every time a rising edge interrupt occurs on a digital input pin. Interrupts are a simple concept, but notoriously complex to setup and get to function correctly. With mbed, the code is conceptually very simple. Create a pin that can generate interrupts, and attach a function to the rising edge of that pin.
The mbed library is built on top of the low-level ARM® Cortex™ Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS), which is a vendor-independent hardware abstraction layer for the Cortex-M processor series.
In contrast to CMSIS, the mbed library provides a very high-level API, which is focused on providing abstract interfaces for basic control of peripherals. This structure provides a natural way for users to benefit from the mbed library wherever they can, yet add bespoke code built on CMSIS where they need to support functionality not provided. In particular, this enables concentration of effort only on critical or differentiating aspects when prototyping. In addition to the mbed Library, the mbed Community peripheral libraries are an expanding base of contributed code for controlling peripherals that are connected to the microcontroller, such as sensors, actuators, LCDs, and other modules. These are usually built on top of the mbed library and enable systems to be connected quickly, focusing on the logic and functionality rather than drivers. These libraries can be contributed by anyone within the mbed community and will be supplemented by middleware from third-party vendors over time.
To demonstrate how a simple application experiment can be realized with mbed, the following example demonstrates a hardware device controlled by an internet database.
The example program in Figure 9 implements a system which displays a message on a screen and moves a servo motor based on the result of an HTTP request. The solution is unlikely to be optimal, robust or complete but is enough to get the concept working.
The prototype may enable iteration of hardware, early development of the internet application, exploration of new markets or provide the case for committing to a project. By enabling an accessible way to test ideas, mbed helps reduce the risk associated with product development and gets advanced microcontrollers designed into applications more often.
The focus on rapid prototyping gives mbed a broad appeal. For engineers new to embedded applications, mbed will enable them to experiment and test product ideas for the first time. For experienced engineers, mbed provides a way to be more productive in the proof-of-concept stages of development. For marketing, distributors and application engineers, mbed provides a consistent platform for demonstration, evaluation and support of microcontrollers. As a result, the mbed tools will help a diverse audience exploit the opportunities presented by advanced microcontrollers like the NXP LPC1768.
Description:The mbed Microcontroller is an ARM processor, a comprehensive set of peripherals and a USB programming and communication interface provided in a small and practical DIP package. The mbed is a super-easy-to-use rapid prototyping tool built on industry standard technology. The mbed Microcontroller is made for prototyping, and comes in a 40-pin 0.1" pitch DIP form-factor so it"s ideal for experimenting on breadboards, stripboards and PCBs. It supports lots of interfaces including USB, SPI, I2C CAN, ethernet, and serial. And downloading programs is as simple as using a USB Flash Drive. Plug it in, drop on your program binary, and you"re up and running!
The compiler is web-based, so it works on Mac, Windows, and Linux, and it allows you to write programs in C++. You"ll also have access to the mbed libraries, which give you an API-driven approach to using the many functions of the microcontroller.
OK, this is the sketch that I used to try out user-defined characters on a four-row, 20 character LCD. If you have a two-row LCD, you"ll have to change the calls to "drawbar" in the main loop. You"ll need a potentiometer with the track connected to 0V and 5V, and the wiper connected to analog in 0. Turn (or slide) the pot to see the bar extend across the LCD. The crucial command to the LCD is 0x40, which is used to position the "cursor" in the CGRAM, which is where the user-defined characters are stored. A call to "home" is required after defining the characters, to put the cursor back into the main display memory. All this is documented in the HD44780 data sheet.
hello, trying to get the onboard button on an mbed application board to allow me to clear the screen and put new info, the button currently does nothing, i am getting the first 4 parts of info on the screen however this does not change when the button is pressed, i need help to try to make this work
As you may have noticed, I’ve been working with an STM32 ARM CPU using Mbed. There was a time when Mbed was pretty simple, but a lot has changed since it has morphed into Mbed OS. Unfortunately, that means that a lot of libraries and examples you can find don’t work with the newer system.
I needed a rotary encoder — I pulled a cheap one out of one of those “49 boards for Arduino” kits you see around. Not the finest encoder in the land, I’m sure, but it should do the job. Unfortunately, Mbed OS doesn’t have a driver for an encoder and the first few third-party libraries I found either worked via polling or wouldn’t compile with the latest Mbed. Of course, reading an encoder isn’t a mysterious process. How hard can it be to write the code yourself? How hard, indeed. I thought I’d share my code and the process of how I got there.
I also didn’t want to use any more interrupts than absolutely necessary. The Mbed system makes it easy to handle interrupts, but there is a bit of latency. Actually, after it was all over, I measured the latency and it isn’t that bad — I’ll talk about that a little later. Regardless, I had decided to try to use only a pair of interrupts.
I used the Kernel::Clock::now feature from Mbed. It isn’t clear if you are supposed to call that from an interrupt service routine (ISR), but I am and it seems to work without problems.
If you want a refresher on gray code and some of where it is useful, we’ve talked about it before. If all this sounds oddly familiar, I used an encoder on an old version of Mbed in 2017. In that case, I used a canned library that periodically polled the inputs on a timer interrupt. But like I say, there’s always more than one way to make stuff like this happen.
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