Month: November 2013

Updating Firmware

Many Iowa Scaled Engineering products contain firmware loaded into the onboard microcontroller.  While every effort is made to provide the latest and greatest firmware when the product is shipped, bugs are discovered (and fixed) and new enhancements are added periodically.  Fortunately, updating the firmware yourself is an easy process.  The instructions below assume a Windows […]

An Introduction to MRBus

Many of Iowa Scaled Engineering’s products interface with something called MRBus. I’ve been meaning to write this post for some time, but turns out it’s a rather complex narrative to tell. So let’s get right down to it:  What the heck is an MRBus, and why would somebody want to use it?  In this rather […]