Editing a firmware file in a hexadecimal, or hex, editor can allow you to modify a device's behavior. For example, you can change the speed of manufacturing equipment or enable hidden features on a ...

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 is useful because large numbers can be represented using fewer digits. For example, colour values and MAC addresses are often represented in hex. Additionally, hex is easier to understand than ...

In this article, I'm covering something that's a little abstruse: converting numeric bases within shell scripts. There are really four commonly used numeric bases to consider: binary, octal, decimal ...