Brighton Rust: Embedded systems, day 2
Following on from last week, this time we did “blinky”: making the LED flash on the hardware. Once again, Tim kindly led us through this and supplied some additional LEDs and resistors so we could get multiple LEDs flashing.
Brighton Rust: Embedded systems, day 1
The Brighton Rust group has been learning how to run Rust programs “bare metal” on embedded hardware. That is, hardware without any operating system: an Arm chip, some memory, the odd button and a few LEDs.
Tim kindly lead us through “hello world”, and these are my notes on what we did, specifically on macOS. I’ve added in a few comments after ducking around after the event.
Handwashing
I like to avoid colds and other nasties, so inspired by Global Handwashing Day, I’ve gathered together links and notes on handwashing and related subjects.
Exploring CGP for playing Atari 2600 games
A paper from June this year showed how to use Cartesian Genetic Programming to play Atari 2600 games. In this post I explore the details of the code in the paper.
Themes at Coed:Ethics
My notes from Coed:Ethics, a conference about ethics for developers.
Modelling JavaScript in Scala with Scala.js
Surely there’s something in JavaScript that Scala.js can’t handle? If there is, I’ve not found it yet. Each time I’ve faced some JavaScript obstacle I’ve been overjoyed to find an answer in Scala.js.
In this post I’ll highlight 3 features from Scala.js 1.x that I’ve recently used to dig myself out of a hole.
Alexa Skills Basics
I’ve built and published a simple Amazon Alexa skill. It’s called Brighton Tide, and it tells you the time of the next low tide in Brighton, UK.
These are the notes and links I’ve collected.
Headless Raspberry Pi and the Mac: Basics
I only occasionally work with a Raspberry Pi, which means I keep forgetting and having to rediscovery some pretty basic tasks.
This post is my crib sheet for working with a headless Pi…
Getting Into Other People's Code
A formal code review involves taking a good look at other people’s code. For some, trying to grok strange code is agony. But I like it.
Two Months with the Findster Duo
I’ve been using the Findster Duo GPS pet tracker for a couple of months. I thought I’d share my experience with it so far…
Monetizing Open Source
The a16z Podcast for 10 April 2017 was on Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software). It was a conversation with James Watters, Martin Casado, and Sonal Chokshi, asking the question of: how do software companies build a viable business model on top of open source?
These are my notes, with my comments in italic.
