What the local company manager expects:1. Make all developers use gen-AI tools for coding2. Expect productivity increase 3. Profit!! What the AI-tooling company plans: 1. Make all developers use gen-AI tools for coding2. When most are dependent, decrease the quality… Continue Reading
Mywayback is a complete rewrite of my previous timeback archival tool. It is now available on the github: https://github.com/jsyk/mywayback Main features: Python 3.x in Windows (with NTFS-only) and Linux. Requires the package sortedcontainers. Automatic deduplication of source files using SHA256… Continue Reading
Engineers’ Tribute is an endless well of electronic technology sites, perfectly suited for studying during long winter evenings (or lockdowns.. 🙂 ) Checkout this handy wire-gauge chart made by PEI-Genesis. The download link is right at their front page:
The Vacuum Tube Watch project is now released in version V2.1 “EVERGLOW”. Go see it via the “Projects” menu above. Enjoy!
UPDI – Unified Program and Debug Interface – is the new programming and debugging interface on new ATtiny MCUs from Microchip. The UPDI requires just a single pin on the MCU, so it is very suitable for low-pin count chips.… Continue Reading
I created a smal 100x100mm PCB mini-panel of some of the SMT breakout boards from Adafruit. Each mini-panel contains: 3x SOIC-20 (A-side) and TSSOP-20 (B-side) 5x SOIC-16 (A-side) and TSSOP-16 (B-side) 5x SOIC-8 (A-side) and MSOP-8 (B-side) 4x SOIC-8 (A-side)… Continue Reading
Here you can find documentation about my DIY Analog Curve Tracer.
New AVR processors from Microchip/Atmel use a 1-wire UPDI interface for flash programming. You could use either AVR ICE or Pickit 4 as the “official” programmers (I did not test any of them). Both of these cost >50 EUR. A… Continue Reading
NXP’s PN7120 is NFC controller for contactless communication at 13.56MHz. It interfaces with the host CPU via the I2C bus. The I2C slave address of PN7120 is 0b010100Lx, where L is a configurable LSB of the address (by pin B2,… Continue Reading
Once upon a time, I decided it is a good time to upgrade the version of gcc compiler we use in our ARM926-based firmware project. Historically, this project uses gcc version 4.6, which is quite outdated nowadays (January 2018). In… Continue Reading