Discovery: Documentation

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Do you suffer from the devastating effects of DSA? There is hope, my friends: you can overcome your Data Sheet Anxiety with these great tips. 

This week, Andrei introduces the documentation set for the STM32F4 DISC1 board, and discusses how to overcome the horrors of DSA.

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Protection

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Last week was complete crap. The storms of July showed up and I ended up with water in my basement twice in one week. My article took a back seat to the mundane tasks of home ownership. Grumble.

This week's post is a contentious little piece on protecting your boards from getting copied. It goes into some of the legal aspects, clever hardware ideas that don't work, and finally how to protect your code.

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Resilience Is a Skill

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The thing you are doing in college is figuring out how to learn. The easy, fun, and interesting classes are essentially a waste of your tuition dollars and time. Sorry, but you can/would learn those things on your own. These annoying, boring classes are key to your success. Because if you figure out how to become interested in the classes you don't like, you will do better in industry (or higher academics).

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Scope II

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C uses the static keyword for two completely separate purposes simultaneously. In this week's post, Andrei will continue his discussion of variable visibility (scope), look at function scope, and how to limit scope to a single file, using the static keyword.

It's not as shocking as you might imagine, unless you let go.

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