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Hello {FIRST_NAME}, welcome
to our first e bulletin, we hope you find it interesting and
informative. In this edition:
- Special offers
- Your views
count - find out how you can earn up to £50 in E-Blocks
- New - learn about The Knowledge Exchange
- Why
Flowcode Student/Home users should turn Professional
- Communicating with your PC using E-Blocks
- Multiple servo control with Flowcode
- Flowcode translations – can you help?
Your views count
We'd be pleased to receive
your news, top tips for using our products and suggestions for future content.
If we publish your articles, we will send you a voucher for £50 towards future
purchases of E-Blocks. Email your suggestions to e.bulletin@matrixmultimedia.co.uk.
NEWS on the website: The Knowledge
Exchange
We help hundreds of customers with
their Flowcode problems via our forum. To stop any programs or advice we
provide becoming hidden, we have opened a new section entitled The Knowledge Exchange. This section is reserved for application notes, hints and tips, and other articles concerning Flowcode.
We want you to get involved in The Knowledge Exchange. After reading each
article, you can score it on how useful it is, add follow-up posts which offer
further help or request additional information. We’ll even be giving away
prizes for the best user-contributed content we receive every month. Good luck
and start posting.
Why Flowcode Student/Home users should turn Professional
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The
student/home licence version of
Flowcode is a great tool for starting out with
microcontroller programming, but
it does have limitations. The code size is
capped and components such as RS232 and Graphical LCD do not produce
code. These
limitations are removed by upgrading to a
Professional License.
The price
of the upgrade is simply the difference in price between the student/home and
the professional version. There has
never been a better time to convert. Upgrade before the 30 September 2008 and receive an ECIO 28 pin USB reprogrammable microcontroller on us.To take advantage, contact your dealer. You will need your licence details.
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Communicating with E-Blocks and a PC
Learn how to
perform simple communications between a microcontroller and a PC using a
standard RS232 link or a USB cable (EB-039 USB board) on The Knowledge Exchange.
“When
working with an embedded system it is often useful to connect the system up to
a computer to allow for external monitoring of the system or to integrate an
aspect of the embedded functionality into the PC itself. One of the simplest
methods for achieving this is to use the hardware serial bus or UART that is
built into most common microcontroller devices…” read more
Multiple servo control with Flowcode
Have you
ever wanted to control servo motors using Flowcode? In this Knowledge Exchange article, we explain the theory behind
servo motor control and offer a fully-working program that can control up to 8
independent servo motors.
“The
servo motors used in radio controlled models represent a simple solution for
applications requiring accurate position control. The servos are self-contained
control devices that require only a power supply (usually 0v and 4.5v - 6v) and
a position control signal…” read more
Crossgrade offer - (click here to view all our special offers)
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If you have a version of Flowcode for one microcrontroller, why not
crossgrade and save 50% on the price of Flowcode for each subsequent
microcrontroller family. Simply import your existing programs across
from your current version. Find out more about the microcrontrollers we support:
Flowcode V3 for PICmicro
Fowcode V3 for ARM
Flowcode V3 for AVR
To take advantage, contact your dealer. You will need your licence details.
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Flowcode translations –
can you help?
You may
have noticed that Flowcode has been translated into 20 different
languages.We are currently looking for translations in Arabic, Polish and Russian. If you have a little spare
time to translate it yourself then please contact us at e.bulletin@matrixmultimedia.co.uk. Let us know how you can help and
we will tell you what rewards are available for your work.
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