Freudian slip?
I had to laugh at myself. Instead of “git stash pop” I typed in “git stash poop” ๐
Author Archive for: Pieter
Entries by Pieter
Piconomix FW Library (px-fwlib) 0.10.0 released
Summary: Upgrade to Doxygen 1.9.2 Update and ordering of Doxygen documentation (inspect px-fwlib/doc directory) Massive clean up effort to make coding style and naming convention consistent First class citizen support for Arduino Uno, ATmega328P-XMINI, ATmega328PB-XMINI and ST Nucleo64-L053R8 Rename “px_defines.h” to “px_defs.h” Major upgrade from px_dbg to px_log module (with optional VT100 color text support) […]
PX-HER0 board on Crowd Supply
It has been a long journey, but the day has finally arrived. My PX-HER0 board campaign is live on Crowd Supply. Click HERE
Greek word of the year: meraki
I found this gem yesterday in a school cafeteria: meraki [may-rah-kee] (adjective) This is a word that modern Greeks often use to describe doing something with soul, creativity, or love — when you put “something of yourself” into what you’re doing, whatever it may be. Meraki is often used to describe cooking or preparing a […]
Piconomix FW Library featured on hackaday.com
I finally enjoyed my 15 minutes of fame when an article called “Arduino Gets a Command Line Interface” by Bryan Cockfield was published on Hackaday on 10 Nov 2018. I am extremely grateful for all of the kind words, comments, stars and GitHub repository forks that it generated. This open source project has been a […]
Uncreatively named AB111-4 Atmel ATmega128L Development Board design files (circa 2006)
The design files are archived here for posterity. Enjoy!
Design Logic 2001 contest runner-up
Yep, that’s me, proud runner up in the Atmel Design Logic 2001 contest! It was a long, long time ago and the world was much, much smaller. Here is the link to the PALM III PDA winning entry. Circuit Cellar issue 137 December 2001, page 36: To put it in context, here are all three […]
Logging temperature with Maxim DS18B20 1-Wire sensor
My 12 year old son needed to manually log temperature for 12 hours as part of a school science assignment. I saw this as a great opportunity to demonstrate my incredible engineering skills assist him as a responsible and caring parent. Yes I know, with an Arduino the job would probably be finished in 5 […]
Test&debug your embedded C module with Excel and Visual Studio
For a while now I’ve had a mental itch that needed to be scratched and finally found some time to do something about it. I had a function called rtc_date_time_to_sec_since_y2k() to convert date&time to seconds since Y2K, but I did not have one in the reverse direction… until now ๐ Here is the best solution […]