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Humans are walking high voltage generators, due to all the friction with our surroundings, wide variety of synthetic clothes, and the overall everpresent static charges. Our electronics are sensitive to …read more Continue reading Hacker Tactic: Internal ESD Diode Probing
There are some fairly powerful debugging facilities available on today’s microcontrollers — if your code crashes mysteriously, chances are, there’s a debugging interface that could let you track down the …read more Continue reading ORBTrace Effort: Open Tool For Professional Debugging
If you’ve ever debugged a misbehaving I2C circuit, you probably know how frustrating it can be. Thankfully [Jim] over at Hackaday.io, has a proto-boardable circuit that can help! Inter-integrated circuit …read more Continue reading I2C Tap Helps Assign Blame For SDA Conflicts
After browsing Thingiverse for some printable PCB probe designs, [Henry York] looked around and found a wooden clothespin on his desk. After some collaboration between his 3D printer and his …read more Continue reading Need To Probe Circuits? Remember About Clothespins!
As a debugger, GDB is a veritable Swiss Army knife. And just like exploring all of the non-obvious uses of a those knives, your initial response to the scope of GDB’s feature set is likely to be one of bewilderment, subsequent confusion, and occasional laughter. This is an understandable reaction …read more
We all know what bugs in code are. We don’t like them when they are in programs we use, and they’re even worse when they are in code which we have written. Clearly, the best code is bug-free, but how do we get there?
This isn’t a new question, of …read more
Continue reading Using Valgrind To Track Down Known And Unknown Bugs In Your Code
Congratulations, you have just finished assembling your electronics project. After checking for obvious problems you apply power and… it didn’t do what you wanted. They almost never work on the first try, and thus we step into the world of electronics debugging with Daniel Samarin as our guide at Hackaday …read more
Rookout, a startup that provides debugging across a variety of environments including serverless and containers, announced an $8 million Series A investment today. It plans to use the money to expand beyond its debugging roots. The round was led by Cisco Investments along with existing investors TLV Partners and Emerge. Nat Friedman, CEO of GitHub; […] Continue reading Rookout lands $8M Series A to expand debugging platform
The problem is well-known: programming and debug headers consume valuable board space and the connectors cost money. Especially troublesome are the ubiquitous 100-mil pin headers, not because they’re expensive, but because they’re huge, especially along the z-axis. If you’re building miniature devices, these things can take up a ridiculous amount …read more
Continue reading SOICbite: A Program/Debug Connector for an SOIC Test Clip
The problem is well-known: programming and debug headers consume valuable board space and the connectors cost money. Especially troublesome are the ubiquitous 100-mil pin headers, not because they’re expensive, but because they’re huge, especially along the z-axis. If you’re building miniature devices, these things can take up a ridiculous amount …read more
Continue reading SOICbite: A Program/Debug Connector for an SOIC Test Clip