Collaborate Disseminate
You’ve built a robot crammed full of servos and now you settle down for the fun part, programming your new dancing animatronic bear! The pain in your life is just …read more Continue reading Animate Your Robot In Blender
Last time, I told you how to get started with the “Black Pill” STM32F411 board using the Mbed OS. The example program, admittedly, didn’t use many of the features of …read more Continue reading Arm Pumps Up the Volume with Mbed and a Potentiometer
We see tons of projects with the infamous “Blue Pill” STM32 boards. They are cheap and plentiful and have a lot of great features, or at least they were before …read more Continue reading Arming with an OS
RS485 is a communication standard that should be part of the advanced hardware hacker’s arsenal; it’s not commonly encountered, but powerful exactly when you need it. It’s a physical layer …read more Continue reading Hacker Dictionary: RS-485 Will Go the Distance
As a standard feature of the Linux kernel, device tree overlays (DTOs) allow for easy enabling and configuration of features and drivers, such as those contained within the standard firmware …read more Continue reading A Power Button for Raspberry Pi, Courtesy of Device Tree Overlays
For big-ticket purchases, I tend to do a lot of research before I open my wallet. I like to at least have the illusion that when I send my money …read more Continue reading First Days With a New Microscope
Do you ever have to ensure that an exact amount of time passes between two tasks in your microcontroller code? Do you know what’s the difference between precision and accuracy? …read more Continue reading Time And Accuracy in Las ATMegas
One could be excused for thinking sometimes that the concept of connecting devices with other devices for automation purposes is a fairly recent invention. Yet for all the (relatively) recent …read more Continue reading SCPI: On Teaching Your Devices The Lingua Franca Of Laboratories
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 …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Automatic Header File Generation
When talking about remote machines, sometimes we mean really remote, beyond the realms of wired networks that can deliver the Internet. In these cases, remote cellular access is often the way …read more Continue reading Basics Of Remote Cellular Access: Watchdogs