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Qt

Fix Fault Tolerant Heap (Qt Creator)

For a while now when running application from within Qt Creator, i would get a message along the lines of: It looks like somewhere along the line Qt Creator was marked by Windows subsystem “Fault Tolerant Heap“. The system seems to detected repeated problems with a program and apply mitigations to prevent crashes in the…

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Electronics

Cheap 18 bit I2C ADC

I’m current using two MCP3424 in a design and thought it was worth a post as its quite a neat ADC. I’m going to split the post into five sections which I think surmises the chip nicely. Bus type The MCP3424 using I2C as its bus protocol and has two configurable address pins. This means you…

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Electronics

Cheap Isolated Supplies

Overview Isolating DC/DC supplies have always been quite costly in my designs. They seem to make up the bulk of the end BOM cost.  When I need isolated supplies I generally require upwards of 3 kV isolation because of the applications the equipment is used for. I generally always end up selecting the medical grade…

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