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The Desolation of Smog: The Delhi Edition

Mumbai is the city of dreams, Delhi the city of dark, smog-filled realities. Today the dwellers of this entitled city witnessed a changeand with it Delhi was reintroduced to an old, dark friend: Smog.

The pollution uptick has rendered lungs useless and switched its citizen’s brains for Dhinchak Pooja’s, with Delhites roaming the streets sporting Bane-like masks, with Kejriwal in their hearts and migraines in their heads. Where once we used to look up at the sky and think dreamily about our place in the stars, now we quickly look down because fuck-my-eyes-hurt.

But still, we’re driving Volkswagens without the care of Delhi’s earnestly blinging hotline. “It’s over,” Drake crooned to her in the message. Did you know that global warming is an anagram of balls going warm?

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This pollution nonsense is all a conspiracy funded by Kejriwal and the anti-national media. Like do these people think Ram ever let “grey skies” stop him from fulfilling his duty? Bah Savarkarbug!

I love India and hate NDTV. I also close my eyes each time Mahira Khan appears on TV.

I can’t wait for Arnab’s super mega exclusive today. He is the only one who talks about real issues like #IndiaAgainstAntiNationals rather than air particles and *air quotes* smog.

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I think the biggest problem has been like my grandfather is struggling to you know, like breathe. He keeps coughing and shit. My dog Bruno was also acting weird last Diwali. I don’t even know why he doesn’t like crackers. Stupid dog! Oh but pollution is really bad. It’s harmed my skin a lot and I can’t find a facial which will, you know, end pollution. When I think about it, I think pollution has also spoilt my phone. My Snapchat has a weird grey filter now.

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I was given a lot of advice before I shifted to Delhi six months ago. Don’t go out in the night, they said. I’m a man, I responded. Don’t get into fights with people as they have guns, they said. I’m a man, I responded. Don’t go to Paharganj drunk at night, they said. I’m a man, I responded. Don’t breathe in the polluted air, they said. I’m a man, I responded. Now I have fucking allergic bronchitis.

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These days when I look up at the sun, I wonder if there are 10,000 saanp bombs lit on fire, energising the Earth, because that’s how living in Delhi feels like. I’m no elitist, but the colour of the sky really matters to me when deciding what place to bunker down in. Do Delhiites even remember what clouds look like? Do you remember what breathing without coughing feels like? Do you remember Altaf Raja? Fuck odd-even, now I can’t even see the car in front of me. This is not how God envisioned us to live and this is why I’m dumping Delhi for Canada. No, I am not Punjabi.

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I like running. I’m in fairly decent shape too. I’ve run marathons, I’ve run from home to work, I’ve run from my ex and I’ve run from my boss’s wife. Did I mention my great shape? Running was my life and Delhi’s pollution has wrecked it. I’ve decided to leave this slow-ass, grey town for Mumbai to finally figure out if the myth of Joggers’ Park is warranted.

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As a Chennaite as bad as the air quality can get in Chennai on occasions, it’s nothing like Delhi and Noida. I was actually trying to quit smoking around the time I moved here, but decided against it after sampling the air quality. At least, when I smoke, I feel a sense of autonomy in deciding how I actually get cancer.

During this intense research period, I have also met people who cannot read anymore and have just given up on their guitar lessons because “their throats feel all woozy”. Bravehearts all of them and all of them with dire warning: GTFO or be left in a hot box of angry people, sporting pocket air-purifiers, where everyone is scrambling home and searching the word “Green” on the internet.

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VGA output using a 36-pin STM32

Thinking about old video game consoles and arcade machines (very old, like those in the 70’s/80’s) it came to our minds what can be done today using very low-cost microprocessors. Generally, these microprocessors weren’t even created to do this task, so the challenge began, and we started to think the way to output video to a screen with few or no external components at all.

We have picked a 36-pin, 72 MHz STM32 (STM32F103T8U6), fast enough to generate monochrome video synchronism and dot signals. We use a couple of timers and the SPI (this way the refresh of the frame buffer is done automatically). And the final result is a pretty decent monochrome VGA output with 400 x 200 dots resolution.

Click here to download the complete source code.

The project is in KEIL uVision format. You can download the KEIL uVision evaluation version from

The list of materials:

  • A board with a STM32F103T8U6 or similar. We use the AK-STM32-LKIT.
  • A female VGA connector (DB15).

Even if the frame buffer is 400×200 pixels length, the output resolution is 800×600 at 56Hz. We will be painting every horizontal dot twice, and every line will be repeated 3 times. This way we fill the entire screen.

Another reason we have chosen 800×600 @ 56Hz is because of the pixel clock: this resolution uses a 36 MHz pixel clock, that is a multiple of 72Mhz, the frequency of the STM32. Since we will be generating the pixels signal with the SPI, we can divide the STM32 clock with the SPI preescaler to get a 18MHz pixel clock, and paint every pixel twice. The SPI MOSI line will stay high or low twice the time needed to output a single pixel for a 800 pixels horizontal resolution.

The frame buffer is composed of an array of 52×200 bytes. 50 x 8 = 400 pixels (every bit is a pixel). The two remaining bytes will simulate the blanking interval for every line.

#define VID_VSIZE 200
#define VID_HSIZE 50

__align(4) u8 fb[VID_VSIZE][VID_HSIZE+2];

Everything we write in this piece of RAM will be output directly to the screen without intervention of the application: the DMA is set to automatically read from the frame buffer and output the values to the SPI MOSI pin.

The horizontal synchronism

The horizontal synchronism signal and the back porch time are generated using the TIM1 timer, channels 1 and 2 (respectively). The TIM1 channel 1 is connected to the pin PA8.

HSYNC and HSYNC+BACKPORCH signals (click to enlarge)

The H-SYNC timer 1 channel 1 (pin PA8) will actually generate the horizontal synchronism that the monitor will receive.

The H-BACKPORCH timer 1 channel 2 signal is calculated from the sum of the horizontal synchronism time and the back porch time. This timer will generate an interrupt that will be used to fire the DMA request to start sending pixels through the SPI.

This is repeated for every line in the frame buffer.

The vertical synchronism

The vertical synchronism is generated using the TIM2 timer, but in slave mode. The TIM2 timer counts the H-SYNC pulses generated by its master, the TIM1 timer.

Timer 1 and Timer 2 (click to enlarge)

The TIM2 timer channel 2 outputs the V-SYNC pulse through pin PA1.

The TIM2 timer channel 3 will trigger an interrupt when the timer counter reaches the sum of the V-SYNC and vertical back porch time. This interrupt will set a variable indicating that the scanning is within a valid frame and the DMA can start sending pixels to the screen.

VSYNC and VSYNC+BACKPORCH signals (click to enlarge)

Pixel generation

Pixels are generated using the SPI MOSI pin (PA7). The timer TIM1 channel 2 generates an interrupt that will enable DMA TX requests to the SPI. The DMA will read a line from the frame buffer and will put the values in the SPI DR register.

The DMA is set to generate an interrupt after a single line is sent, where the line number is incremented. Since we are sending each line three times, we will increment a counter in this interrupt. When the three lines have been sent, we set the DMA pointer to the next line in the frame buffer.

When all the lines have been sent, the DMA cycle is disabled until the next valid frame interrupt (TIM2 channel 3).

To use this example you will only need some wires and a female VGA connector.

The VGA standard says that the output signals should be 0,7V to 1V, so you may want to put a voltage divider in the pixel line (serial 68 ohm resistor and a 33 ohm resistor to ground, better with a 47pF in parallel with the 68 ohm resistor). We have tested a couple of LCD monitors without the divider and it went just fine.

Note that the pin layout is referred to the AK-STM32-LKIT expansion connector, but the pin names are valid for any STM32. Check your chosen STM32 datasheet to see if the timers and SPI pins matches the design.

Note: we use the green color (pin 2 of the VGA connector) to emulate the old style green phosphor monitors, but you can use another color combination using the RED/GREEN/BLUE DB15 pins. It is possible to create up to 8 color combination.

Connections (click to enlarge)

AK-STM32-LKIT pin VGA connector pin Description
PA1 Pin 14 Vertical sync
PA7 Pin 2 Green
PA8 Pin 13 Horizontal sync
GND Pin 5 Ground

We have created a VGA controller using a very low cost microprocessor/development board. The method used it’s certainly not the only way to do it, but this one uses no external components besides a VGA connector.

If you are using this example with a bigger STM32, you can try to use double buffering and to write to the frame buffer while the DMA is disabled, to avoid tearing.

You may download the source code for this project. There you will also find a utility library to draw lines, points, circles, bitmaps, character generation, bit blit and more.

In the next blog entry we will be implementing a video game using this VGA example.

Have fun!

The Artekit Team.

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  1. Did you have any trouble getting a stable image? I tried to make composite output from an STM32L1xx, but the edges of the images wiggled around. I didn’t look too much into it, but I’d like to know what causes it.

    I notice that the Uzebox and the Arduino TV-Out has code to synchronize the program with a timer to avoid this problem, which for the AVR is caused by interrupts being called only after the current instruction runs. It doesn’t look like you needed code to do this. This chip was only a 32MHz chip, so maybe your faster CPU was enough to hide this problem.

    1. Just at the very beginning. But then we realized the interrupt handlers were slow performing the task and was enough to ditch the ST library function calls and go directly to work with the timers and DMA registers. There’s still some minor glitch sometimes, I think because we access the RAM when the DMA is fetching the current line.

      Changing the “speed” (2, 10, 50 MHz) of the GPIO also played a role because of the slew rate produced. You can check with uVision or any IDE that allows you to change those values at runtime to see the difference.

      One curious fact was that we had to move the interrupt handlers to a fixed position at the end of the flash because adding code before those functions (in terms of position in flash) made the SPI to start sooner or later, depending on the added code. I believe in some flash fetching delay depending on the function location.

      Take in consideration that this project is about VGA and may not apply to your composite video project.

  2. The suggested voltage divider (serial 68 ohm resistor and a 33 ohm resistor to ground) will pull 33mA from the STM32 pins. Seems possibly too heavy a load to me.

  3. hi
    I have a problem in Keil uVision4 when the controller firmware bug
    The console writes
    Load “C: \ \ Users \ \ mihail \ \ Desktop \ \ artekit_vga \ \ obj \ \ stm32_vga.axf”
    No Algorithm found for: 08000000H – 08001B23H
    No Algorithm found for: 08009000H – 08009337H
    Erase skipped!

    help please

    I use your project and your progoramm. but i have module a STM32vldiscovery. with microcontroller STM32f100RB

    1. You need a flashing algorithm for your MCU.
      Right-click the project and select “Options for target…”. Then in the utilities tab click on your debugger “settings” and select (using the “add” button) a flashing algorithm for your MCU.
      BTW, I see your MCU is a 24MHz Cortex M3. I don’t know if this project would run smooth on this speed.

  4. Good job, very nice project !

    Love it !

    Have you ever been thinking about using another SPI (or maybe 2 others) to add other colors red and/or blue ?
    Although I don’t think you can run 2 SPI at full speed with DMA, the data-bus might be the bottleneck.

    1. Thank you.

      This STM32 has only 1 SPI. I think the problem would not be bandwidth, but RAM. Since we are using 10K from the 20K the STM has, just to store the frame buffer (using 1 bit color depth).

  5. Impossible!
    How did you manage to get SPI to join the databytes in scan-lines without sending inter-byte gaps/stop bits ?
    Each SPI protocol diagram I found, shows that after a byte or a frame is sent, there is a pause. So either the diagrams I saw were incorrect or you did kind of a magic ? for example, I read:
    Is it possible to create longer scanlines (1680 bits for example) ?
    I plan to use STM32F4 with LQFP-100, because there are more SPI and UART modules.

    1. Hi.
      It’s possible. SPI is used with DMA so there are no gaps (if you mean gap as the consequence of , for example, a busy loop or interrupts happening in the middle of a transmission). Also, the STM32 is quite precise with timings.
      Perhaps the pause you saw on diagrams is because the peripheral you are talking to needs a pause to process whatever command you have sent to it. Since we are emulating VGA, we produce the pauses we want for sync intervals (by disabling/enabling the SPI/DMA).
      You can send as many bytes as you want, as long as you have enough memory to hold an entire frame buffer.You will need to check if the frequency of the SPI matches the frequencies needed for the resolution you want to show.

      Try it yourself! There are people who made their own boards to try the example:
      This one on an LCD:

  6. Hi Artekit,

    THANK YOU for sharing you project with us.
    Your project was a starting point to our project. I used your logic, rewritten whole code, expanded to 2 output SPI, sinhronized them in slave mode using two more timers. One to be same as TIM1, to trigger 10Mhz timer for SPI CLK.

    I did additional logic with input part and viola an adapter on a MCU.

    Best regards from Slovenia

  7. hi, I see the method of solving the pixel clock is to make SPI MOSI line stays high or low twice the time needed to output a single pixel for a 800 pixels horizontal resolution, but I read the code and can not find the operation to make SPI MOSI line stays high or low twice the time needed , Could you tell me how to make SPI MOSI line stays high or low twice the time needed?with code or something else? thanks very much!

    1. Hi,
      There is no specific code for setting the pin high/low twice the time. The pixel clock for this 800×600 VGA is 36MHz, and we use the SPI at 18MHz, so the MOSI line stays high/low twice the time needed to draw a pixel.

      The monitor interprets every pixel twice, hence drawing two pixels.

  8. Thanks for your project. I have read the code many times and still don’t know how we determine x,y in these function like :gdiDrawTextEx(i16 x, i16 y, pu8 ptext, u16 rop) ….where code show me how to determine x,y on screen to create pixel?.thanks alot

  9. Hi, is the STM32F103T8U6 similar to the STM32F103T8C6 (C6) device ? as I have lots of them here to play with and would like to try your code out. Regards Bob

    1. That “C” may be about a different package (that I cannot find in the datasheet), but should be compatible because it’s the same STM32F103x8 family.

  10. Artekit Hello! first of all, let me congratulate you on your project, that is what I was looking for! previously did something similar with a pic 18F2550, but actually want to do with stm32f0 (discovery card), which works 48 mhz, I just want to make some of the text. and in the second step, an OSD, a 640×480 VGA source. I’m currently using cubemx, and Keil uVision 4. Could you help please? I tried to follow your project settings, adapting to stm32f0, jumping from 72 MHz to 48 MHz, using cubemx. but there are parts I do not understand how to adapt them. in advance I appreciate your time.

    1. Hi. Thank you.
      I don’t know if it will work @ 48MHz. Usually max. SPI speed is Fpclk/2, and I think there are not 640×480 VGA resolutions with that pixel clock or a multiple of it.

      1. Sorry bad writting:

        Thank you for your response Ivan, certainly I can tell you, do not worry, I did it before, and it worked! It was not necessary to be exact pixel clock, you can check here:, the 1:09 minute, ES 640×480, it was with a pic 18F2550, but not in C. the problem is that someone stole my laptop and my projects, so the jump to arm. What do you think?

        1. Well, I guess with lower resolutions you can be more “permissive” with timings. You’ll lose some quality though. Create a thread in the support forum and we’ll discuss over there. Tell us what parts you don’t understand.

  11. Hi, would it be possible to make a LoRes color display (say 320×320 or 320×160) and would it be possible with the cheap STM32F103C8T6 (<$4 on ebay)

    1. Hi.
      It’s possible to drive an LCD using similar timings but I can’t answer without doing some research first, which is what I suggest you to do.

  12. Hello.

    I’m doing a similar project to show a digital clock in a monitor using VGA connection. My ARM is STM32F103RB, and I adapted your code to configure the clocks in VGA in a 800×600 at 36 MHz. Now, I have to learn how to draw in the screen.

    However, I didn’t understand two things:
    1) Why are you using Systick functions?
    2) Where is located (in video.c) the command that enables to draw in the screen? I’m not seeing the connections between demoInit() and vidInit().

    Can you help me? Thanks.

    1. Hi Thiago,

      1) for delays like the sysDelayMs() function, for example
      2) there are not commands to enable drawing. Once vidInit() is called, you can draw in the screen by writing to the frame buffer (the fb variable). There are some helper functions to draw text, lines, circles, etc. You can find them in gdi.h.

      demoInit() is the main loop for the demo you can see in the video.

      1. Ivan,

        What locations of your project that I can change to configure a 800 x 600 resolution? Just changing:

        #define VID_HSIZE 50 // Horizontal resolution (in bytes)
        #define VID_VSIZE 200 // Vertical resolution (in lines)

        #define VID_HSIZE 100 // Horizontal resolution (in bytes)
        #define VID_VSIZE 600 // Vertical resolution (in lines)

        results in this error:

        …. ex1.elf section `.co_stack’ will not fit in region `ram’
        …. region ram overflowed with stack
        [cc] collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

        1. You can’t use those values. 600 x 100 turns into 60KB of RAM. The STM32F103RB has only 20KB. The effective resolution of this project is 400×200 – the 800×600 output resolution is just to satisfy the VGA timing.
          If you want a real 800×600 resolution you have to move to a bigger uC. Check the work of Karl Lunt using an STM32F4:

  13. Thanks a lot! I won’t realize with this important detail!

    I have to use STM32F103RB, so I decided to use the same resolution as your source code. However, using the same parameters that you used to configure the VGA, and testing just the red color in the screen:

    1) Drawing a full red screen by modifying vidClearScreen() setting fb[y][x] = 127, appears in my monitor this image: It has 52 black vertical lines, like VTOTAL value.

    2) Drawing a rectangle by modifying vidClearScreen(), appears this image:

    Do you have an idea of what’s happening? If you like to see my code, contact me at my e-mail.

    Excuse me for a lot of questions, and thanks a lot for always helping me!

    NOTE: The code for the second (2) situation:

    void vidClearScreen(void) {
    uint16_t x, y;
    for (y = 0; y < VID_VSIZE; y++)
    for (x = 0; x 69 && y 20 && x < 40) {
    fb[y][x] = 127;
    } else {
    fb[y][x] = 0;

    1. Hi. Every bit on the frame buffer is a pixel. Please re-read the blog post. It states that “…The frame buffer is composed of an array of 52×200 bytes. 50 x 8 = 400 pixels (**every bit is a pixel**)…”.

      A value of 127 = 01111111b will draw one blank column followed by 7 colored columns.
      Use the gdiPoint() function to place pixels in the screen. It will do all the calculations for you.

  14. Hi,
    First of all , Great Project.

    I wasn’t able to display any lower case characters.
    The lower case characters where missing and only the Upper case characters were displayed.
    How do i display lower case characters?

    1. Hi,
      Yes. I see the font is not complete (file font5x7.c).
      You can complete it to show lower case characters, but you may be dealing with font descent and other issues that are beyond the scope of this project.

  15. Thank you for your great work but depending on the code size compile I see jitter on the third or second raster line. I am confused. I have diabled all interups in my code and still does happen. Do you have any idea. By the way I have ported your code to gcc tool chain.

  16. I think I have resolved my issue by doing a sligth modification to your code:

    I have moved the vdraw++ instruction at the beginning of the IRQHandler and now the timing seems to be spot on no matter what code I add… this is weird. I have not looked at the assembly insturctions though…

    __irq void DMA1_Channel3_IRQHandler(void)
    DMA1->IFCR = DMA1_IT_TC3;
    DMA1_Channel3->CCR = 0x92;
    DMA1_Channel3->CNDTR = VTOTAL;

    if (vdraw == 3)
    vdraw = 0;

    if (vline == VID_VSIZE)
    vdraw = vline = vflag = 0;
    DMA1_Channel3->CMAR = (u32) &fb[0][0];
    } else {
    DMA1_Channel3->CMAR += VTOTAL;

    1. Hi,
      It may depend on the optimization done by the different compiler options. I don’t recall having glitches due to the differences in the generated code, but a look into the assembly instructions for every case may worth the effort

      1. I just saw in one of your post:

        “One curious fact was that we had to move the interrupt handlers to a fixed position at the end of the flash because adding code before those functions (in terms of position in flash) made the SPI to start sooner or later, depending on the added code. I believe in some flash fetching delay depending on the function location.”

        Could that be my issue?

        1. It may be. But if I recall correctly, the behavior didn’t change by changing optimization flags, that is your case. I have to say that we only tested the code compiling with KEIL only and not with GCC.

  17. Hello Ivan,

    I really enjoyed your project a lot!
    Thanks for sharing and for answering all the questions sent to you!

    I’ve few questions:
    1) There is some concurrency of CPU and DMA acessing RAM. Does it affect some way CPU performance?
    2) How diferent would be using DMA to memory GPIO instead of SPI? Would both works the same way and perform the same?
    3) Please evaluate feseablility of this modification on your original code:
    – Reduce resolution to 200×150 making it 1/4 of 800×600 – pixel aspect 4:4 instead of 2:3
    – 200×150 is 3,750 bytes only. Now let’s create 3 buffers of 3,750 bytes, for Red, Green and Blue colors. It’s a total of 11,250 bytes, but now we have 8 colors in 3 bpp model (bits per pixel).
    – It’s still full screen in VGA 800×600@56Hz mode
    – But now we must run DMA for 3 blocks from RAM to GPIO synchroniously.

    Best Regards,
    Rodrigo Corbera

    1. Hi,

      1) The bus is shared, so yes, there is concurrency. The bus matrix should prioritize CPU accesses.

      2) It’ll be very different as implementation. Never tried it. I’m not sure, but since the GPIO registers are accessed word-wide you’ll need to dedicate an entire 16 pin port just to move N<=16 pins of the port with DMA.

      3) I didn’t did the math, but I think it’s the wrong MCU for bit-banged RGB VGA. This is because:

      a). the points mentioned in 2).

      b). The GPIO peripheral has the ODR register, that would have to be written with a word containing the 3 pixels (you should use a timer interrupt to write 3 bits on a GPIO ODR. This will slow things a bit) so no DMA for this. And there are the BSRR and BRR registers, but you should know whether a pixel is a one or a zero before writing to it, so no DMA in this case either.

      And, the functions that draw on screen would have to be modified to place bits in 3 different buffers.

  18. Thanks again Ivan for your clear and quick response.

    As you said there is no DMA to GPIO pin port as a way of emulating a SPI or even sending just 8 bits to a GPIO port, thus this idea is dead.

    I just looked at some STM32F103 datasheets and thought…. what about SDIO paralel 8 bits with DMA…

    I don’t have the specific knowledge about tthis MCU, but maybe you have and can tell me if that would be possible for achieving RGB ouput of RAM somehow…. at any divisor of 36MHz.

    If SDIO with 8 bits out could render 256 colors in a resistor lader, such as RRRGGBB for VGA. If Bluepill could send byte as a parallel 8 bits stream of 400 bytes, I could try to think about a tile system instead of Video RAM.

    Please let me know,
    Thanks again,

    1. I don’t think you can send whatever you want using SDIO as with SPI. It has an internal state machine and is command based, so, I hardly believe it can be done with SDIO.

      As said before I don’t think you can easily do RGB VGA with this particular MCU. Perhaps there is some trick to do it, but as the contrary of the current project, I doubt it would leave free computing power for whatever application it’ll run. I would look into an STM32 with LCD controller and check if the timings can be adapted to those of a VGA. Perhaps you can select the color for every line (full R, G or B), by moving an external switch between line blanking times.

  19. Hi，Ivan. When I apply your code for my board , it works successfully. But I can see double images on the screen. The whole screen seems to move a little distance towards right. My board’s MCU is F103RBT6. Can you help me solve this problem? Looking forward your reply ！Thanks a lot !

    1. Hi,
      If you have not done any modification to the code, you can measure h-sync and v-sync signals with an oscilloscope and check if they respect the timings. Also check your quartz/resonator frequency, and if you are using something different to 8MHz, you’ll need to adjust the initialization code.

  20. Hi Ivan！
    Thanks a lot for your sharing and help. I still confuse about your code. You described that the resolution was 800*600@60Hz，but I find that only 400 pixels every line and 200 lines on the screen practically. Why isn’t 800 pixels per line and 600 lines? Could you tell me why not. Looking forward your reply。

    1. Hi,
      A framebuffer for 800×600 pixels (1 bit per pixel) is 60KB. The STM32 has only 20KB of RAM. So it’s used a 400×200 framebuffer, and every pixel in a line is sent twice and every line is sent three times. Other reasons are described from the third paragraph.

  21. Hi, should be the TIM1 stopped during V-SYNC pulse ? Is H-sync occurs during H-sych?
    Sorry for my english i am still lerning. 😀

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I am often asked to give my view on how the courts approach cases where couples are divorcing and one of their assets is a business. Businesses on divorce is a highly specialised area, and the approach to a business divorce case requires careful consideration and handling in order to avoid as much disruption to the business as possible.

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Will the court force a sale of the business?

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Richard Haass - president of the Council on Foreign Relations that publishes "Foreign Affairs," a leading magazine on foreign policy - offered his insights into Japan's future international role.

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Abe's security policy

Q. I've heard you've been to Japan 15 to 20 times. Do you feel some change of political atmosphere, especially under the Abe administration?

A. I feel a sense of Japan being more confident, slightly more forceful, both domestically in terms of the economy, but also in terms of the region. Just a somewhat more assertive Japan. It is Japan with a stronger personality.

Q. Do you think it is a positive change?

A. In principle, yes. When I was in government, I have long encouraged Japan to become a more normal country. I thought it was time for Japan to become a post, post-World War II country.

Q. How do you evaluate the Abe administration's security policy?

A. In principle, I applaud the idea of Japan playing a larger role. Now, the question of what it does legally and politically to enable that is for the Japanese to decide.

But, to me, the most significant thing is that Japan is willing and able to play a larger role in the region and the world. Japan has the world's third-largest economy. It has one of the top five or so militaries in the world.

Japan has, however, been unwilling to do so - not unable, but unwilling - given its politics. And on one hand, I totally am respectful of it because of the post-World War II legacy and inheritance.

On the other hand, there needs to be a gradual process of Japanese entry and involvement in addressing the world's problems. The problems are many and large.

And we don't have the luxury of doing without Japan's participation. We - the United States - need partners, and we need capable partners.

What makes the US-Japanese relationship so important and so special to me is that we are both democracies, and there is a willingness on both sides to back up commitments.

Our commitments to each other are more than rhetorical, but they are real. One of the things I applaud about Mr. Abe is a willingness to see Japan play a larger role in the region and the world.

Q. Are things moving in the right direction for Japan?

A. Yes, absolutely. What is holding it back is that there's still a lot of domestic resistance to the idea of Japan playing a larger role. But what I think is good about what Prime Minister Abe has done is to place this issue firmly on the agenda.

It will take time and there will be steps back as well as steps forward. It'll be controversial. But, however long Prime Minister Abe is prime minister, when he leaves, his successor will inherit a different situation.

And things that people couldn't say five or 10 years ago, now they can say openly. That's interesting to me as an observer. That's a welcome development. It's healthy.

What Japan has to work on, particularly regionally, is, given the historical issues, it has got to be sensitive to how a more assertive Japan will be received.

That means with China and the Republic of Korea in particular. So that's a challenge for Japan: to make people comfortable with its taking on a slightly more active role.

It's not in Japan's interest that the countries in the region resent or resist these changes. It's simply a reality that Japan needs to think about not just what it does but how it does it.

Challenges over history

Q. What do you think is the right approach on this historical issue?

A. Questions of the past and historical narratives are very complicated. I was the chairman of the peace talks in Northern Ireland. And it was interesting how much of my time I spent dealing with the past, between the different communities and their different narratives. The past intrudes on the present.

It's unlikely that if Japan just does this itself it will satisfy anybody. My hunch is you have to have a lot of conversations with others.

And then, Japanese have to have very honest conversations among themselves. And this will be the sort of thing that will influence your textbooks and influence what you put in your museums.

It will be very painful. It will be difficult. It will be awkward. But it's probably necessary, because these problems simply don't go away because of the passage of time.

If anything, they get worse - because the worst forms of the narrative get widely accepted. I actually think time, in some ways, can be a problem. And that's why I always feel that it's necessary to confront these narratives and to discuss them.

Relationship with China

Q. What do you think about Abe's meeting with Xi Jinping?

A. It's a good opportunity, but it's simply one event. You can't be too ambitious for one meeting. What you can hope is this meeting launches a process of sustained conversations between Japanese and Chinese officials. I'm struck by how limited the Japanese-Chinese relationship is.

One day, if the consultations go well, then the consultations can become negotiations. That's the goal; where you set up new commitments or arrangements, and maybe you can deal with territorial issues and the rest.

What I'm struck [with] about this part of the world is how far behind it has lagged Europe.

The Japanese relationship with China, the Japanese relationship with the Republic of Korea, are very underdeveloped. Your regional institutions are pretty limited.

They're mainly economic and you don't have a serious regional security mechanism.

Q. So what is your idea? You emphasise the importance of institutions or structures.

A. What is important would be confidence-building measures; both communication agreements as well as behavioural agreements - not to have your ships and planes coming into close proximity.

Ultimately, I can imagine territorial conversations with Russia about the northern islands and with China, whether it's about the Senkakus or other issues.

I could see building a new Asian security institution; some Asian version of what exists in Europe - the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.

You would build an Asian version that made sense for the geography and politics of Asia. All these things should be on the agenda.

US rebalancing to Asia

Q. Do you think the United States can play a role in this process?

A. Absolutely. There's the Pacific Ocean, which separates the US from the countries of the region, but we are an integral part of the security and stability in this part of the world.

We have special relationships and obligations to Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia. We had better be a part of it. I'm not sure Asia succeeds without the United States.

I actually think the United States needs to be a part of this process. We need to be part of this dialogue. Without the United States, you'd have much more rearming.

You could have proliferation. You could have more conflict. I don't want to test this theory. And I would hope that we would be welcome not just by our allies but by others.

I would think that even China would understand that the United States has an important role to play.

Q. We don't see lots of US commitment in Asia.

A. I believe that our actions have not kept pace with our language. So we need to do more. We do need to increase our military presence; particularly air and naval forces.

The most important thing, though, is we need to increase the frequency and the depth of our consultations with various countries. And then, it's essential that we pass TPP [Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership].

We need a diplomatic dimension, a military dimension and an economic dimension. It's like a stool, with three legs. For stability, we need all three legs.

Q. What is the US general public's reaction to the rebalance policy?

A. This is not a big public debate. Americans don't get up in the morning, eat their cereal and drink their coffee, and debate the rebalance. Sorry.

What Americans, like Japanese, care about are basic economic issues; what we would call pocketbook issues. People also care about physical safety.

The debate about rebalancing is much more a debate among the foreign policy professionals.

But the general idea that Asia is going to be critical to the coming decades, and that the United States needs to do more, is a fairly popular concept.

Interviewee's profile

Haass was special assistant to President George H.W. Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. From 2001 to 2003, he was director of policy planning for the Department of State.

Haass was born in New York in 1951.


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Matt Siegfried, a world-ranked gamer with this his own video game trading card, knows something about commitment. For starters, he’s played a marathon session of Borderlands 2 that lasted 43 consecutive hours. It’s no wonder that when he turned his attention to transforming his body, that he would reach advanced-level skills.

Under Reddit username mattBLitz, Siegfried explained how he went from "skinnyfat" game binger to hitting the gym, gaining 70 pounds and now being able to bench press more than 300 pounds. He said his body transformation only increased his dedication to gaming. According to his post, mattBlitz is the third-ranked achievement hunter in the world on PC with over 117,000 achievements earned and 840 games completed. Now the former XBox and Playstation champ is a lifting and nutrition coach, according to his Instagram account.

“So many people told me I had to quit playing video games all the time and start going to the gym and I gave a big ‘hell no’ to that. It wasn’t until my third year of college that my formerly-overweight best friend tried lifting weights and convinced me to give it a shot.”

But for Matt, the gym might as well been a different world. His first day he snapped a photo of a foreign contraption hoping a friend could identify it. It was a squat rack. He need to start simple. He started with barbell work. One day he would go with squats, overhead presses and deadlifts and another day when he would squat, bench press and throw in some assisted pull-ups.

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But like many of us that embark on a fitness journey, his progress stalled. He played with different rep schemes and made a spreadsheet with a list of his max reps and weights for each exercise and experimented with different powerlifting programs. But then he simply lost motivation.

A year later he started again. This replicated the same program at first and then tried a PHAT training template, a bodybuilding program created by Dr. Layne Norton that focuses hypertrophy and power in an effort to gain size. Matt said that’s when he started focusing more on how he looked than concentrating on how much weight he could lift. He admitted that his motivation still wavered at times, but keeping a long term goal focused on how he ultimately wanted to look, help keep him on track. His training evolved into a simple push/pull protocol without forgetting leg days.

He shared an example of what a week of training looks like:

Barbell incline up to a heavy set of 10, then lighter 4x10

Dumbbell OHP 5x10

Rope pushdowns 3x12

Overhead rope extensions 3x12

Side raises 3x15

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I was never a cat person. I grew up with dogs and pocket pets. After being a Pharmacy Technician for a few years I decided that I wanted to finally fulfill my lifelong dream of working with animals and I started working for an animal shelter in Atlantic City, New Jersey. My heart was immediately stolen by two tiny stray kittens and I had my first foster babies. I named them Scout and Lenny. Sadly, Lenny passed away within a few days. He was smaller than Scout and not as healthy. My heart was broken. Scout stopped being a foster and became my first cat. He lived to be 16 years of age.

My life has been ruled by animals for the past 17 years. I lived in Rhode Island for five years and became the caregiver to an estate that was “owned” by 13 cats. I lived in that old house with them until they all passed away. During my time there I started taking in stray cats from the veterinary hospital that I worked at. The local county shelter would also call me to take their “last chance” cats... I had officially become a crazy cat lady! I also did wildlife rehabilitation during this time and my house would have litters of squirrels and opossums in the spare bedroom. I became addicted to being a caregiver.

I moved to Oregon to work at DoveLewis as an ER/ICU CVT. I’ve see so much trauma working in an emergency setting. I hadn’t even worked in the ER for two months before I took in my first stray cat. He’d been hit by a car and had multiple fractures in his face. I named him Jeremy. He was the first of many animals that came home with me from DoveLewis. I’ve taken home everything from parvo puppies to elderly cats in hospice situations.

Erin Sochocky's cat Jeremy on presentation to DoveLewis after being hit by a car.

Currently, my clowder (read the definition here) is up to 13, and I also have a dog and a tortoise. For someone who was never a cat person, that’s pretty significant. I imagine you wincing at that number, and immediately imagining an episode of Hoarders. I can assure you that this is not the case! Living with such a large number of cats I feel like I’m always defending myself... I find it so strange how often veterinary people find my lifestyle so odd.

If I wasn’t a CVT I couldn’t do what I do, especially with the number of animals that I take in and the amount of nursing care that some of them require. Within the past four weeks I’ve spent well over $1,000 in cash on medical care and supplies. Rescuing animals is costly and very time consuming. I can’t imagine my life any other way though.

I recently had to purchase a new dryer because mine finally croaked. Spending $400 on an inanimate object that I would be using several times a week for years almost sent me over the edge with stress and worry. But spending $700 on my cat Luna’s dental procedure at a local veterinary hospital (we don’t have dental services at DoveLewis) was no big deal to me. I didn’t even blink when the receptionist told me how much I owed. I was really excited that it was way less than the high end of the estimate that I had been given!

I’ve always been a sensitive, introverted person who felt more comfortable with animals than with people. Being a CVT has increased my sensitivity and made my empathetic nature come to the forefront of who I am as a person!

Pablo Picasso once said, “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose to life is to give it away.”

I’ve found my gift and accepted it gratefully. When you’re a rescuer and caregiver, you must give away all of your spare time and finances to these amazing animals who’ve often been through more than you can imagine. The feeling that I get when I am able to rescue an animal in need is priceless.

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Amazing story! I absolutely feel the same way and think your a wonderful person for all that you do :)

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Your story made me so happy and thrilled that there are people like you out there. Keep doing what you do!

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Thank you so much for your positive comments! They mean the world to me.

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You rock man! This profession is truly blessed to have you in it! :)

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As I'm reading your blog post, I'm thinking wow this sounds like my place!!! My arms are scratched to pieces by my latest squirrel babies, I have a previously 34 lb foster cat from a local shelter on a long term weight loss stint at my place along with my own 4. I'm sitting in the tx room of our ER on my Canadian thanksgiving weekend at this moment, with my 7 month old foster kitten who I hand raised... Who is now a juvenile diabetic. Crazy lives we live. Thanks for summing up what I feel on a regular basis!!! It's crazy for a lot of people, but we are in this profession to help, are we not? My boyfriend is patient, as he knows I always say... I am who I am, and I do this because it's who I am :) thanks again for a great post.

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You are doing what you have been put on this earth to do !
You are a healer of the animals !!
I bid you God Speed in healing these precious little souls !!
Kudos to you!!

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Thank you so much for sharing your story, it blessed my heart to hear this. Best wishes with all of your fur babies.


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Lovingly maintained 4 bedroom seasonal cottage located just a short walk away to Patricia Beach.

This 816 sq ft cottage has 3 interior bedrooms, a spacious kitchen and an adjacent living room with a vaulted ceiling.

In 2018 the cottage exterior was painted and several other upgrades were done: a new hot water tank, plex plumbing, new shower, sink and vanity. (Although there is no toilet they have a porta potty and a pumpable outhouse.)

Off of the large front deck that features a nice pine tongue and groove overhang is a private entrance to a 13'6" x 9 bedroom with a sink a small fridge and a vaulted ceiling. 40' well, 50 amp, shingles 2008, deck 2010.

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The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

No one knows exactly how it happened or how it could have been helped, but one thing we all know for sure is that the way Nikola Tesla’s life ended was tragic.

This brilliant innovator, outstanding intellectual, and visionary fondly known now as the “man who invented the twentieth century,” died alone and destitute, never to enjoy the fruits of his labor or wide recognition for his genius. Tesla, Father of (insert countless groundbreaking inventions here), ended his life alone and broke at the New Yorker Hotel, in Suite 3327.

These days, Suite 3327 has a plaque bearing Tesla’s name, and a second plaque honoring him graces the exterior of the hotel. Engineers, scientists, geeks, UFO enthusiasts, and other admirers all make the pilgrimage here to pay homage to the “mad” scientist who changed the world before the world was ready. Tesla spent ten years in this room, slowly losing his mind, falling in love with pigeons, and occasionally meeting with dignitaries.

Besides being the place Nikola laid his head to rest for the last time on this earthly plane, the dour room on the 33rd floor is also the site of a conspiracy. Tesla kept a safe in this suite, and it’s where he stored his most controversial and important scientific papers. One of the more intriguing inventions was “Tesla’s Death Ray,” the culmination of his work on particle beams. While he had shopped the weapon unsuccessfully to several governments both as the “Death Ray” and the “Peace Ray,” he swore it could not be stolen as the blueprints were only in his head. In his words: “[The nozzle would] send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles from a defending nation’s border and will cause armies to drop dead in their tracks.”

On the day after Tesla died, his nephew hurried to the New Yorker and upon arrival found that his uncle’s notebooks and several papers had been removed from Suite 3327, along with the inventor’s body. A short time later, all of his work was impounded and passed through a handful of government agencies until the War Department deemed them worthy of “Top Secret” status.

Some believe he was murdered by the FBI, despite his age and health being consistent with a natural death; some think he was an alien, and he simply returned to the mothership. The rest who mourn the loss of the quirky Serbian genius feel a palpable sadness knowing that the “man who invented the 20th century” left this life mad and misunderstood, sharing his bread and honey with the pigeons, fading in a lonely New York hotel room.

Taking the escalator down one floor there is a bust of Nikola, as well as a display case and several photographs pertaining to him. The glass case contains several items that relate to the man.

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Let’s start with the basics. Many first timers think Walt Disney World (or the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, to give it its full title) is just one park or, even worse, that each park is within walking distance from the others. The expanse of this entertainment Mecca is impossible to imagine if you have never been before, but the fact the entire resort complex is approximately the same size as Greater Manchester should give you an idea of how huge it is and how serious Walt Disney World is about ensuring every visitor finds plenty of entertainment for the duration of their holiday. In fact, you would need a month or more to experience everything the House of Mouse has to offer.

Parks and Amenities

Walt Disney World Resort

This immense resort consists of four separate theme parks, 21 speciality hotel resorts, a campground, two water parks, a sports complex, three 18-hole golf courses, one nine-hole course, four mini-golf courses and a huge shopping and entertainment district, Downtown Disney/Disney Springs. There are more than 300 places to eat, almost twice as many shops and some 24,000 hotel rooms. It has its own road system (which can amaze and bewilder in equal measure), fire department and security, and its car parks are large enough to swallow small counties. You cannot walk from park to park (unless you enjoy one-hour unpaved hikes in the hot Florida sun) and you are bombarded with choice at almost every turn. Stay two weeks and you might see most of it; one week gives you the basics.

Walt Disney World Highlights

Walt Disney World puts on some of the most spectacular firework displays in the world. The Magic Kingdom comes to life after dark with ‘Wishes’ as fireworks illuminate the night sky and iconic Disney movie scenes are projected onto the castle front. Epcot has the stunning ‘IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth’, which celebrates the spirit of humanity and ‘Fantasmic!’ tells a mesmerising story of good vs evil as the characters battle it out in Mickey’s dream. A visit to Walt Disney World isn’t complete without witnessing at least one, but ideally all of the incredible firework displays.

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Magic Kingdom’s major expansion added two rides—Under The Sea-Journey of the Little Mermaid, and the family-friendly Seven Dwarfs Mine Train roller coaster—a lovely re-telling of the Beauty and the Beast story at Enchanted Tales with Belle, counter service restaurant Gaston’s Tavern and the magnificently themed Be Our Guest restaurant (quick serve at lunch, full service at dinner).

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Disney’s high-tech FastPass+ system allows guests to book dining reservations, character experiences and reserve access to popular FastPass+ attractions in advance. Guests can also add PhotoPass, and link their holiday experiences with friends and family, all prior to their visit to Walt Disney World. Booking park tickets in advance allows access to the FastPass+ website and the perks of planning all of your activities from home, freeing up time to enjoy the parks once you arrive.

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Walt Disney World Size

Walt Disney World covers a massive 47 square miles and there are likely to be around 200,000 visitors within those confines at any one time (in fact, it sometimes feels like there is at least that number of people in the same queue as you!).

Recommended Visit Time

It would be nice if we could all stay for months, but let’s take a realistic look at how long you’ll need in each of the four theme parks to cover the majority of attractions without running yourselves ragged.

  • Magic Kingdom: We recommend two days, especially with young children.
  • Epcot: Two days is practically essential here. The park is split into two sections, Future World and World Showcase, each of which can absorb most of a day to fully appreciate.
  • Animal Kingdom: One full day.
  • Disney’s Hollywood Studios: One full day.

But wait. There’s more. The shopping, dining and entertainment complex of Disney Springs (home to the spectacular Cirque du Soleil show and the massive indoor games arcade, DisneyQuest) deserves several hours of your time, as do Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach water parks, easily a full day each or a good choice in combination with an evening at Disney Springs.

Our recommendation for a visit to Walt Disney World is a minimum of 6 days, but 8 days would be ideal, especially in the peak season of Easter, Summer, and Christmas/New Year.

Park Hopping

Park hopping is allowed for guests holding Disney’s 7, 14, and 21-Day Ultimate tickets, so you can visit Magic Kingdom in the morning and spend the evening at Epcot. Or start at Animal Kingdom and hop to Hollywood Studios for the evening Fantasmic! show. Any combination of parks is allowed, giving you total flexibility, but bear in mind you can only book your FastPass+ times in advance for one park, then use the in-park kiosks to book further FastPass+ times once you have park hopped.

Along with the 7, 14, and 21-Day Ultimate tickets, Attraction Tickets Direct also offers maximum flexibility for your Orlando holiday with the Orlando Freedom Ticket (4 Walt Disney World theme parks and 2 water parks, 2 Universal Orlando Parks, Universal CityWalk, SeaWorld, Aquatica and Busch Gardens Tampa Bay) and the Freedom Ticket Ulimtate (which adds admission to LEGOLAND Florida for up to 14 consecutive days, as well as coach transportation from Orlando to Busch Gardens included). Both tickets are valid for 14 days after first use.

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  • Compact spare tire
  • Dual sliding doors
  • Halogen headlights w/auto-off
  • Heat-rejecting glass
  • Intermittent rear window wiper w/washer
  • P235/65R17 all-season tires
  • Pwr mirrors
  • Rear privacy glass
  • Rear roofline spoiler w/integrated brakelight

  • 3-point seat belts in all seating positions -inc: front automatic tensioning system, front & 2nd row outboard adjustable seatbelt anchors
  • 4-wheel anti-lock braking system (ABS) w/electronic brake distribution (EBD)
  • Advanced Compatibility Engineering (ACE) body structure
  • Brake assist
  • Child-proof rear door locks
  • Daytime running lights
  • Dual front side-impact airbags w/passenger-side occupant position detection system
  • Dual-stage, dual-threshold front airbags
  • Front/2nd/3rd row side curtain airbags w/rollover sensor
  • Lower anchors & tethers for children (LATCH) -inc: 2nd row tethers anchors & lower anchors in all seating positions, 3rd row tether anchors in all seating positions & lower anchors in outboard positions
  • Side-impact door beams
  • Tire pressure monitoring system
  • Vehicle Stability Assist (VSA) w/traction control

  • 3.5L SOHC MPFI 24-valve i-VTEC V6 engine
  • 5-speed automatic transmission
  • Active control engine mount system (ACM)
  • Active Noise Cancellation (ANC)
  • Direct ignition system
  • Drive-by-Wire throttle system
  • Front stabilizer bar
  • Front wheel drive
  • MacPherson strut front suspension
  • Multi-link double wishbone rear suspension
  • Pwr ventilated front disc brakes, solid rear disc brakes
  • Variable Cylinder Management (VCM)
  • Variable pwr rack & pinion steering
It is the customer's sole responsibility to verify the existence and condition of any equipment listed. Neither the dealership nor AutoRevo is responsible for misprints on prices or equipment. It is the customer's sole responsibility to verify the accuracy of the prices with the dealer. Pricing subject to change without notice.


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Casting First Time Home Buyers in NY / Tri-State Area

Casting First-Time Home Buying Couples and Their Moms

Location: TriState Area – NY, NJ, CT

Type: Reality TV

Now Casting fun and outgoing couples in the TriState area (NY, NJ. & CT) who are buying their first home with the financial help of both of their opinionated mothers.

Couples: first-time home buyers who are purchasing their first home with financial assistance from their mother and their mother-in-law. Looking for couples who are fun and outgoing and not afraid to take their opinionated mothers on this house hunting journey with them. Seeking real people with real stories. This is not a scripted role.

Mother & Mother-in-Law: an opinionated mother who is financially assisting their child and their child’s partner with buying their first home. Mother must be outspoken and not afraid to speak her mind. She must be willing to join her children on their house hunt and offer her opinions. Seeking real people with real stories. This is not a scripted role.

When submitting, send a note with the following: Everyone’s names, locations, occupations, contact information, budget, recent photo, a few sentences about your mothers, and a fews sentences about your dream home.

Payment: Paid

City or Location of call: TriState Area – NY, NJ, CT
Please submit to: by 2020-03-31

This casting notice was posted by: Magilla Entertainment

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