A Narwhal's Guide to Bayes' Rule
Bayes' Rule is used in machine learning, risk assessment, and forecasting. It is neat. Like narwhals.
Read MoreDiscovery: Documentation
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.
Read MoreDiscovery: Let's Get Board!
This week, Andrei introduces the STM32F407G-DISC1 board.
Read MoreESE101: This Time We Really Turn on the LED with a Button, I Promise
I've kept you waiting long enough: this week we'll finally turn on the LED with a button.
Read MoreProtection
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.
Read MoreESE101: Chip Errata (Hardware Bugs)
I found a chip bug! Sort of.
Read MoreResilience Is a Skill
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).
Read MoreScope II
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.
Read MoreESE101: GPIO Inputs Part 1
We've seen how GPIOs can be used as outputs. This week we'll learn how to use GPIOs as inputs.
Read MoreESE101: New Version of Code Composer Studio
TI just released a new Code Composer Studio version with full Mac OS X support, GCC support, and a bunch of bug fixes. Get it today!
Read MoreESE101: Delay Delay
A funny thing happened on the way to the blog post...
Read MoreWorking Remotely
A friend asked if I have any tips on staying productive and happy working from home. He’s staying with his company but moving his home across the country.
It turns out I do, in fact, have tips!
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Shortcutting Conditionals
Look, if I give you a bunch of stuff that all have to be true, and the first one is false, I'm not going to waste my time checking them all. It's just the way I roll.
This week Andrei looks at shortcutting in conditionals.
Read MoreESE101: Wait for it... Delays!
Let’s hurry up and get started learning how to waste time, assembly language style.
Read MoreHow Big Is An Enum?
This weekend, Andrei went to a huge kite festival in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, and really didn't have a lot of time to come up with a huge post.
Instead, this week, he writes about how the C language handles allocating space for enums.
Read MoreESE101: Assembly Language Playground Followup
Here’s the answer to the small challenge we ended with last time.
Read MoreEmbedded Wednesdays: Logic in C Part II
Wait, what? Andrei finally wrote the long awaited bit-manipulation post? Yes, it's true.
Click through to learn about &, |, ~, and even ^. When would you use these things? And find out what is due for homework this week.
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