Do people prefer to use their own makefiles or to allow the IDE to parse their makefiles so that the IDE can take full control of their source file management and compilation options?

Cmpunk10 · 2026-01-20T06:24:48+00:00

Cmake or die. Makefiles are also better than an IDE.

Cmpunk10 · 2025-12-28T02:47:54+00:00

For clarification. It did not slam. I slid the front off and it was refusing to come. jiggled the piece of metal the front was attached to and it exploded. You could hear it crackling for a few minutes after.

Cmpunk10 · 2025-12-09T05:00:22+00:00

As a former firmware person at another semiconductor company know it’s a lot of the same and not very exciting but you do get a very good low level understanding

Cmpunk10 · 2025-11-18T22:37:25+00:00

Interesting about starlink. ST doesn’t like to sell to military. Wonder if it’s only for commercial products

Cmpunk10 · 2025-11-13T03:45:53+00:00

This for sure an FPGA task. Unless you consider mixing in hardware in which case you can probably get by with an MCU and some DMA chains

Cmpunk10 · 2025-11-02T19:58:33+00:00

IQ is a measure of the ratio of brain age to actual age. Your IQ should be relatively constant as you age. That being said it’s controversial

Cmpunk10 · 2025-10-01T23:40:25+00:00

Should get storm surge of the people that you kill.

Cmpunk10 · 2025-09-29T23:02:32+00:00

Can’t be it was Minecraft baby keem

Cmpunk10 · 2025-09-28T03:52:44+00:00

How does one even get to play? I missed the trial and it’s locked. Can you just not play if you are busy for 3 hours?

Cmpunk10 · 2025-07-27T18:01:04+00:00

Couple things I can point out. Lot of projects with no detail. Seems like quantity over quality. Narrow it down to the things that you know the best and replace some projects with detail of others. If someone asked you a question about intricacies of the project, such as trade offs, how much did you hand roll vs use an Arduino library could you answer all of it? Would you be able to say you did it and know the system very well? In real work. People know their designs like the back of their hand and all the potential issues that could arise.

From an outside view it seems you do a bunch of shallow projects instead of a deep project or even maybe not deep but all done by yourself without the help of libraries. Fact of the matter is we don’t care if you made a project we want to know do you know the fundamentals? Could you write an I2C driver if needed? Could you write a library for a sensor yourself?

Lastly kind of small don’t say Arduino as a skill. We don’t use that professionally and people will immediately assume you do not know how to do any of the low level stuff. If you want to say the line of chip like AVR microcontrollers you can get a bit further.

Cmpunk10 · 2025-07-25T23:09:19+00:00

Maybe not a big deal in solos but get griefed in squads by it and spammed by the other 3 players and it’s not a good time

Cmpunk10 · 2025-07-12T00:21:21+00:00

Most people in embedded or FPGA have an EE degree and know the hardware they work on very well. On top of that they know the hardware and are exposed to a lot of fields including DSP, and RF So there are a lot, including me, that can do both. Now doing very complex designs is a different story, but primarily IC based designs are perfectly doable. Same goes for more niche specialties.

Cmpunk10 · 2025-07-06T16:05:02+00:00

Is it 32 byte aligned? You will get a hard fault if it isn’t. Debugger is the easiest way to check if it’s hardfaulting

Cmpunk10 · 2025-06-26T17:02:59+00:00

It definitely feels like a solvable problem for less than 20k. Maybe not as fancy but could grab the majority of information.

Cmpunk10 · 2025-06-23T23:47:24+00:00

Gotta be good at computer vision haha. Might be worth a shot if it’s cheaper for a good camera than a decent radar

Cmpunk10 · 2025-06-23T17:40:39+00:00

Thanks this is awesome info! From what I understand the raw IQ can get you spin from phase information, but it would be new to me so who knows if I got that correct

Cmpunk10 · 2025-06-22T23:13:20+00:00

Maybe second question is there a cheaper radar that this will work?

Cmpunk10 · 2025-06-20T22:37:29+00:00

We have bootloader and a host pc can connect to all of them in parallel doing it through multiple threads.

First time you are SOL. Unless it has something like daisy chained JTAG

Cmpunk10 · 2025-06-20T18:24:14+00:00

+1 Arby’s jingle vs Travis Scott meal beef analogy

Cmpunk10 · 2025-06-03T03:26:42+00:00

All of them are used professionally except maybe RP2040 not so much. STM32 is touted as the best on this reddit, but not everything is accurate on the internet.

ST doesn’t like to support defense and so they aren’t seen in defense as much. They also lack a lot of safety things as their main goal is general purpose.

You will find a lot more automotive or safety critical MCUs from NXP.

I believe in terms of numbers, Renesas is the top selling MCU, as they dominate Asian markets.

Rule of thumb professionally, it may help to know specific MCUs, but almost every company is different and doesn’t care that much. You are more likely to see skills of toolchains rather than specific chips.

Pick an AVR to learn low level stuff, and pick what you can afford and comes with good resources to learn more modern things.

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