I’ve tried a lot of the “newer” languages and, somehow, I’m always happiest when I go back to C++ or even C. However, there is one thing that gets a little on my nerves when I go back: the need to ...

Displaying custom fonts or images on an LCD screen using a microcontroller usually requires quite a bit of work. We’ve used some readily available tools to make this a bit easier for your next project ...

Certain kinds of business computer files, such as Microsoft Word documents, multimedia files and ZIP archives, carry important information in the data bytes nearest the file's beginning; software ...

As I'm spending some time back in the land of low-level C, I'm trying to fully get my head around best-practices for header files and code organization, so I thought I'd toss out some questions. (NOTE ...

In C programming, a source code file that contains common definitions and data structures that all programmers may use as required. Also called "include files," because the #include statement is used ...

A question came up in another forum that made me realize I must have landed to many headers on my head... Someone is trying to set a breakpoint in a header (something.h) file (gcc/gdb/Dev-C++). I had ...

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