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Introduction and Help

  • Course Notes - Course notes being developed to support workshops, lectures and self learning
  • Short Course Notes - Course notes used in Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
  • IoT DeepDive Workshop Meetup - slides and written documentation for an mbed centric meetup series covering various IoT Technologies.
  • WikiSyntax - for developer.mbed.org (how to add links to posts, inline code in posts, add videos, general markup) very useful for creating good forum posts and code documentation on notebook pages

Components and Libraries

This section is for information about different reusable building blocks; primarily components and the libraries, code and information to make use of them. For more about Libraries, see Working with Libraries.

See also the main components database.

TCP/IP Networking

Internet of Things and Websockets

Networking examples using the officially supported library

USB

Official USB Libraries can be found in the handbook

Here some other examples:

Custom Peripheral Drivers

The mbed libraries allow for standardized, simplified usage of more peripherals. However there are also user libraries which allow for faster, more efficient and/or more flexible use of these peripherals. With the exception of the software emulators of peripherals, these libraries are generally limitted to a subset of the mbed supported boards, so you need to make sure yours is supported!

AnalogIn

GPIO

  • FastIO - Faster versions of DigitalIn/Out/InOut
  • PinDetect - Debounced InterruptIn

PwmOut

  • SoftPWM - Software PWM emulation
  • FastPWM - Allows PWM at full clock speed, or reduced speeds compared to regular mbed lib

PdmOut

Serial

SPI

  • SWSPI - Software SPI emulation
  • BurstSPI - High speed SPI writes when they are in large blocks (mainly intended for SPI TFTs)

I2C

  • I2C busreset - Recover from an I2C bus lockup (FRDM-KL25Z).

Interrupt

In-Application Programming

  • IAP - IAP for the NXP LPC1768 and LPC11u24
  • FreescaleIAP - IAP for Freescale boards

Power Management

  • Power Control - Power management functions for the original LPC1768 mbed
  • WakeUp - Wake up from deep sleep / power-down modes (various targets supported)
  • WakeInterruptIn - Allows LPC1114 to wake from deepsleep mode (other targets can use just regular InterruptIn)

USB

  • F401RE-USBHost - USBHost library for various targets (not just F401).

DMA

  • MODDMA - DMA library for the LPC1768
  • SimpleDMA - Simplified DMA library for multiple targets

LCDs and Displays

Audio

Wireless

  • XBee - Simple Zigbee modules
  • XBee-mbed - XBee API mode, Series 1 (802.15.4) and Series 2 (ZB Pro/ZNet)
  • cc3000 cookbook - TI’s SimpleLink Wi-Fi solution
  • HC-05 Bluetooth - Economic bluetooth module (Class 2) using AT Command set and C# test program.
  • BLE 4.0 - Bluetooth Low Energy chip demonstration with iOS application
  • Puck - A library for easier setup and prototyping of Bluetooth LE-enabled IoT devices

Motors and Actuators

  • SimpleSteppers - A software interface to TIMER2 to drive upto four stepper motors
  • SimpleRCservos - A software interface to PWM to control simple radio-control servo units

Sensors

Compass

NFC/RFID

Barcode

Temperature

Clocks and Oscillators

External ADC/DAC

  • Analog Devices AD7190 - Ultra-low noise 24-bit Sigma-Delta ADC
  • Analog Devices AD7490 - 16 channels, 1MSPS, 12 bit ADC with SPI interface
  • MCP4822 - SPI dual channel 12-bit DAC
  • MCP320x - Simplified access to the Microchip 1/4/8-Channels 12-Bit A/D Converters with SPI Serial Interface

Interfaces and Drivers

Storage, Smart Cards

Magnetic, Proximity Card Readers

Digital Signal Processing

Interfacing with other languages

Utilities for an application

  • ConfigFile - Variable configuration file helper class
  • FirmwareUpdater - Update your application binary via WEB.
  • SerialBuffered - An extension to the Serial library that provides customisable buffering
  • DebounceIn - Extends DigitalIn to add mechanical switch deboucing of inputs.
  • PinDetect - Similar to DebounceIn above but adds "interrupt" style callbacks on pin state change.
  • MODGPS - A library that supports easily adding a GPS module to your project.
  • MODMAX7456 - A library that supports the MAX7456 on-screen display chip.
  • MODSERIAL - An extended version of Serial that provides full IO buffering.
  • MODDMA - A library that manages the GPDMA peripheral as an easy to use library.
  • MAX3100 Additional external serial ports.
  • FunctionPointer - Mbed's callback mechanism explained
  • FPointer - An advanced library callback mechanism
  • MatrixClass - A class to handle Matrices.
  • Text LCD Menus - Set up a menu system controlled by an RPG input device

Baseboards

Breadboards & Breakout Boards

Reference, Tutorials and Examples, Events

This section is for the sort of reusable information that can help you get your job done.

Events & Classes

Books

Tutorials and Examples

Internet of Things

Software Development

Hardware Tutorials

Robotics

Reference

PCBs

This section is about PCB design resources, for complete official PCB Layout and schematic files please see the mbed HDK

  • mbed Eagle Library - contains 10 libraries containing components, symbols and footprints for some default modules
  • Mbed Eagle Library -Easy and effective Eagle library that will accelerate your design ideas.

Projects

Cookbook pages or links to notebook pages documenting any projects you are working on.

  • Ideas List - Ideas list for university projects, internships and Google Summer of Code

Community and Support

Debugging

Other Things

  • Backup - Backup your published programs and libraries
  • End of life - End of life information about mbed microcontrollers

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