Day 30+: a postlude

(Copyright Vectorbelly Webcomics) While the rest of the world is preparing for super sportsing, I’m taking the opportunity to tinker. This post is a continuation of the GaSiProMo challenge I took part in a while ago. Today’s update brings in the next stage of that project with my OsRAM LED display: better packaging. The goal here is to …

Day 6: early firmware testing

This post is part of the GaSiProMo challenge.   You can read more about this here. Things are progressing nicely.  I have the display fully wired now to the Mega.  It’s a spaghetti mess, but it’ll work. I have the serial port on the Arduino working nicely for debug.  I also did a fair amount …

The state of the Arduino ecosystem

*** The following is a “bitter old engineer” rant.  You’ve been warned. At this ripe old age, I have come to value most the quality of a toolchain. I’ll go a step further and say that the coherency and consistency of the umbrella that toolchain inhabits is a most prized quality.  And what spurred this revelation? …