A few weeks ago, I mentioned I would be started this blog up again, and I mean it. However, in the past few weeks I hit a few snags with my personal hardware, and realized how out-of-date it all is.
I initially wrote out a thousand words on my current …continue
There's been a pretty long gap here, a little over 5 years, which matches almost exactly with my time at my previous company. I was the second employee, fifth in the room, and spent those 5 years building simulation software and tooling for the autonomous vehicle industry. As a result …continue
Jumping to the bootloader from application code is highly desirable for many reasons, such as wanting to be able to reprogram devices in the field without any extra hardware (such as a button) to increase complexity, BOM cost, etc.
The code in this post will be tested on the STM32F070xB …continue
As anybody who's looked at Cara's capnp->Python conversion code, they may have noticed that I've taken a liking to C++ metaprogramming via templates. I started my initial foray into C++ back in '06 when modifying an existing codebase for a robotics competition. It didn't use templates, and for the …continue
After months of internal use without problems, we're ready to release cara for others to use. We would be very happy if others picked up cara and made it work for them. If you've been looking at the Cap'n Proto project but were hesitant to shoehorn it into your Python …continue
This past Saturday, two friends and I played AoE II HD (Age of Empires II HD) online. We played a semi-custom scenario one of them had made with the three of us as a team in the middle of the map against 5 Hardest computers, high initial resources and starting …continue
Recently, I was looking at the Wordpress Admin page for this blog and everything was responding slowly. I realized that Wordpress is overkill for this blog. I have under 100 posts spread over 7 years, averaging under a post per month, I don't need a full-blown blog engine.
Also, the …continue
Firstly, let me acknowledge this is a rare problem. So the lack of documentation I ran into is totally acceptable. The problem: I have a Python package that has a C++ component that isn't an extension, it's a binary. I wanted that binary to be on the PATH of users …continue
Because I have 3 tests covering 67% of the code base and my only docs are blog posts. If you're way more adventurous than I am, the code is available at https://github.com/chainreactionmfg/cara for your daring consumption.
Edit: I didn't mean it won't be available for others …continue