A 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…
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Elecia White writes about whatever she feels like. Her Taking Apart Toys series looked at how disassembling toys can shine a light on embedded systems topics. She draws mathy comics like the Narwhal’s Guide to Bayes’ Rule, gives engineering advice as in Resilience is a Skill, and is exploring machine learning through ongoing adventures of her typing robot.
Read MoreTy the Typing Robot
This is the landing page for Ty the Typing Robot.
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 MoreShort interview with ListenNotes about Embedded podcast
Asked and answered.
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 MoreTell Me About Your Toolchain
This is not a simple post that will tell you exactly how to set up a tool chain that works for your development environment, target processor, and available tools.
Read MoreRanges in Array Initializers
This time, Andrei looks at initializing variables and the use of range specifiers when initializing arrays.
Read MoreElecia on Hackaday HackChat on Friday Noon PDT
Come type-chat with me.
Read MoreMultiplying Math Libraries
Why does every compiler have their own math library?
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?
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Elecia gave a talk at the Embedded Online Conference 2021 about how to use memory map files. The talk is not yet available to the public but you can see the slides and files here.