This Design Idea is for low-end, eight-pin, flash-memory, 8-bit microcontrollers, such as the MC68HC908QT4A from Freescale, but it would apply to any 8-bit microcontrollers that use the ADC feature.

Hex codes are a simple, unambiguous way to designate colors in digital media. However, going from a color in your head to a hex code can be difficult for the unpracticed. [Guy Dupont] built a little ...

I'm working with XSLT for the first time, and while most of the (simple) things I've needed to do have been easy to learn, I'm having some trouble with this one part. I need to print a string as a ...

Last time I talked about how to use AWK (or, more probably the GNU AWK known as GAWK) to process text files. You might be thinking: why did I care? Hardware hackers don’t need text files, right? Maybe ...

Want to convert an RGB color value to a hex code in a hurry? Don’t bother firing up Photoshop. You can do it directly from Google by simply searching “RGB to Hex.” This little feature, uncovered by ...

If you have liked the color and would like to know its HTML, HEX, RGB, CMYK and HSV values, then portable freeware Pixie may be able to help you. Quite often, we need to identify a color on a web page ...