Wouter van Ooijen (@wovo)

I am a programmer by education and a electronics tinkerer by passion. I have worked in embedded systems (process industry, space, military). Currently I run my webshop and teach embedded programming.

C++ on microcontrollers 4 – input pins, and decoding a rotary switch

Wouter van Ooijen ● November 12, 2011●2 comments

Wouter van Ooijen shows how to extend a small C++ I/O library for microcontrollers to support input pins and mixed I/O, and how to decode a rotary switch reliably. The post walks through a safe class hierarchy for input, output, and bidirectional pins, then builds a quadrature decoder with a saturating counter and an HC595 seven-segment demo you can run on LPCXpresso hardware.

C++ on microcontrollers 3 – a first shot at an hc595 class with 8 output pins

Wouter van Ooijen ● November 2, 2011

 previous parts: 1, 2

This blog series is about the use of C++ for modern microcontrollers. My plan is to show the gradual development of a basic I/O library. I will introduce the object-oriented C++ features that are used step by step, to provide a gentle yet practical introduction into C++ for C programmers.  Reader input is very much appreciated, you might even steer me in the direction you find most interesting.

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C++ on microcontrollers 2 - LPCXpresso, LPC-link, Code Sourcery, lpc21isp, linkerscript, LPC1114 startup

Wouter van Ooijen ● October 24, 2011●5 comments

Wouter van Ooijen walks you through getting C++ to run on a tiny LPC1114 board using LPCXpresso hardware and a command-line toolchain. He demonstrates a minimal linker script and startup code that initialize .data and .bss and call C++ global constructors, shows how to flash via the on-chip bootloader with lpc21isp when LPC-link is locked, and includes practical GPIO and SysTick LED examples.

C++ on microcontrollers 1 - introduction, and an output pin class

Wouter van Ooijen ● October 9, 2011●7 comments

Wouter van Ooijen shows how small C++ abstractions make GPIO code portable and reusable. Starting from a simple output_pin interface he implements concrete pins for an LPC2148 GPIO and a 74HC595 shift register, then composes behaviors with wrappers like tee and invert. The post demonstrates virtual methods, references, and constructor initialization lists to build drivers you can reuse across boards.

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