Vladislav Nikonov

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Universal tabletop spool holder

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I made a simple tabletop filament spool holder, based on the QCUSH. Take a look at Thingiverse: thing:4709406

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FreePDK UART Software UART Generator

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This article contains new software UART generation utility for Padauk MCU's. UART code is written mostly in the Assembly, and this should give pretty significant UART baud's while providing quite stable behavior.

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Using default Windows driver for USB CDC devices

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Recently I have moved from Linux to Windows OS as my daily driver and I needed to connect to my PocketCHIP via its built-in USB CDC mode. But I am instantly stumbled upon the issue: even this USB-to-serial is a pretty normal USB CDC class device, Windows was not able to install drivers automatically.

Usually, device vendors provide their own signed device drivers, but it is usually a big pain in the backside to find the special driver for each CDC device. So I was almost ready for a whole lot of pain during the driver search, but then I thought - "Hey, it is 2020 already, maybe Windows could offer something simpler?"

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