Advice for Working From Home
Advice for working from home: find a routine, make it a habit, be flexible when it doesn't work.
Read MoreGiving Feedback
I often think my way is the best because it is the most obvious (to me). When I review someone else’s code, I forget that the way it is implemented is the most obvious way to the developer. We can talk about why it is different from what is obvious to me, but I should expect to often be wrong because the programmer has put more thought and effort into solving the problems. My feedback should reflect that I may be wrong because my perspective is different. Put this way, it is much easier for me to be less blunt, less definitive in my correctness.
Read MoreESE101: C is for Cookie, and also C
C is for Cookie, and also C.
Read MoreSeventeen Machine Learning Tools
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like nails. It’s the law of the instrument.
Read MoreESE101: Switching from Assembly to C Part 4
CCS before C? Yeah you know me.
Read MoreRobot Arms and 2D Coordinate Frames
When I whined about trigonometry not being useful in the real world, someone should have told me about robots.
Read MoreA Book About Applied Robotics
I’m hoping to borrow a book but I don’t remember the title or author, can you help me find it?
Read MoreI Like the Word Ignominious
Sometimes, my career does not go according to plan. If I had a plan…
Read MoreHow Cephalopods Are Like Embedded Systems
I hope I’m not kidding myself.
Read MoreMaking Difficult Decisions
Choosing between A and B is easy as long as you want one of them. But what if you don't know what you want?
Read MorePortraits of Kalman Filters
I’ve been reading the book Probabilistic Robotics by Thrun, Burgard, and Fox. It is good but a bit of a mathematical slog. I realized I needed to make notes, real notes that I would return to. Then I got a little carried away.
Read MoreTyPEypt- A Robot That Types and Teaches
I entered a contest. Did I do the right thing?
Read MoreHand Waving and OpenCV
Computer vision and is neat but I like being able to explain what I’m doing. I like knowing something all the way down to first principles. I like how the depth can inform the explanation. I also like getting things done. Sometimes, you can't get everything you want. But if you try sometimes...
Read MorePressing Buttons
Is it disturbing that, when I told my robot arm to type “hello”, it typed “help”?
Read MoreWhat's up with Ty?
So what’s up with my typing robot? Has it fallen by the wayside like too many of my projects?
In a word: no. Ty has led me on a merry chase across different worlds. I’m still trying to catch up.
Read MoreI Heart My Notebook
I don’t do pair programming. Even when I worked for large and small companies, I worked mainly by myself. My notebook is my companion in design and implementation. While it lacks programming skills, it is a remarkably good listener.
Read MoreCompletely Lacking Sense
I want to see when my motors are jammed and consuming high current. But where, exactly, do I put this current monitoring resistor?
Read MoreThe Case for the Default Case
In a previous post, Andrei discussed the switch statement. In this post, he gives a more indepth review of switch and then deeply dives into the default case.
Rather than just leaving it out, default can be used to detect the impossible. Read on to handle whoopses, neutrino hits, and beer. And remember, be assertive, but be kind to your future self.
Read MoreInterviewing a Lead
Interviewing someone to be your boss is awkward. But we have some suggestions.
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