How to disable Microsoft Windows Telemetry service – compattelrunner

If you are a Windows 10 user, you might have noticed that time to time and without doing anything from your side, your computer’s CPU and hard disk usage will rocket to the skies! This high CPU usage and hard disk activity are mostly caused by the telemetry service of…

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Setting up InfluxDB and Grafana for storing and viewing Arduino measured sensor values

Arduino InfluxDB Grafana

Arduino and its related products are undoubtedly very popular among hobbyists and even professionals. One of the areas of interest with hobbyists and professionals is interfacing with many different sensors such as temperature, humidity, light, etc. The simplest method would be storing measured values on an SD card or transmitting…

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STM8 Tutorial 2 – Implementing a simple delay function

stm8s003f3 LED blinking board

STM8 Series of microcontrollers, the 8-bit series of STMicroelectronics, are cheap but powerful micros which provide a good value and performance to your simple projects. The problem is, these series are not geared toward hobby market. While there are fantastic tools like STM32CubeMX software pack and the HAL library which…

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STM8 Tutorial 1 – How to read the datasheet

STM8S003F3 Evaluation Board

STM8 Series of microcontrollers, the 8-bit series of STMicroelectronics, are cheap but powerful micros which provide a good value and performance to your simple projects. The problem is, these series are not geared toward hobby market. While there are fantastic tools like STM32CubeMX software pack and the HAL library which…

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