I've been a bit lax with the blog updating. In Part 1 of this post I promised Part 2 "soon" and here it is, eight weeks later. Oops.
This two-post series, aimed at embedded device beginners, explains some differences between Arduino and Raspberry Pi. In this second part we're going …
I'm a very recent (3 days) user of scratchbox2 for cross-compiling. My initial response was "this is crazy magic" awe, followed shortly by "this is a crazy mountain of hacks" skepticism. However, after some use & success now, it seems to be a really neat tool.
The best introductions to scratchbox2 …
On an Arduino or other AVR, EEPROM access is a bit fiddly if you want to store different types of data. In this blog post, I'll show you a quick trick to use when you have lots of structured data to store in EEPROM.
First, the existing alternatives:
I first read about the Engineyard Programming Contest yesterday and I thought it was a silly contest, winnable only through the application of raw brute force.
For some reason, I woke up this morning obsessed with it. This is despite the fact that this "competition" is basically a lottery, in …