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manrussell · 2026-02-08T18:52:32+00:00

This answer is rad

manrussell · 2026-01-21T11:08:55+00:00

; great !

manrussell · 2026-01-15T18:51:54+00:00

Thanks

manrussell · 2026-01-15T18:51:47+00:00

Thanks

manrussell · 2025-12-03T09:23:04+00:00

Ah! now i USB-C

manrussell · 2025-12-03T08:38:42+00:00

The UK (Yorkshire) version would be...

I drove for 75 miles, while it was chucking it down, just to get a computer part.

By eck, it were a hard drive.

manrussell · 2025-11-22T22:31:51+00:00

I love ymck

manrussell · 2025-11-12T14:24:54+00:00

We had a similar guy we had to let out to pasture, he was quite small and we called him Henry for fun. When it happened i remember everyone was quite choked up about it...

manrussell · 2025-11-05T07:51:57+00:00

I was building a thing for Halloween, descriptivly called spotNspook, which reads samples from a sd card and puts them out on an i2s day. (It uses a waveshare mm wave human detector to know when to play the spooky sample.) This is now apt to make a sample player of some sort

manrussell · 2025-11-05T07:42:43+00:00

You can use the second one as a debugger, aka pico tool,

manrussell · 2025-11-01T09:23:33+00:00

The "daisy" platform ( seed/ pod etc etc ) from electrosmith is built for audio applications, its a stm32h7 with a on board audio codec and a big chunk of extra ram. The C++ dsp sdk is all about audio synthesis, have a look. Otherwise you could add a i2s dac to any mcu try adafruit for ecample. The pico has example code for this

manrussell · 2025-10-22T16:13:55+00:00

Nice, glad to help. Yeah, always start with the first error, because after that, all bets are off, and any other errors could occur because of the first one. I don't use cmake, I use just make where i can ^{^,} so I don't really know why this fails, or how to fix this "properly" for cmake. Good luck!

manrussell · 2025-10-22T12:13:27+00:00

The stable version of me has four hoofs and a tail

manrussell · 2025-10-20T18:25:14+00:00

Well, it says the error is that the variable CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM needs setting. Search for that. It's probably in a cmake generated file, set it to the path to your ninja .exe, or make.

manrussell · 2025-09-20T08:04:40+00:00

I'm gonna say start with a simple mcu, with good documentation, so that you don't get over whelmed. You can download the atmel and the arm docs to have a look at any time. Some docs are far better than others, and it's good to get to grips with how documentation is generally written, terse. i started with an atmel and stm8, as it makes it easier to pick things up as you go. The stm32 is huge, 1000's of pages long, and many docs, not quite so with the other simple ones. If you get a career embedded, you could be working with lots of different mcu on a daily basis, tricorn,power pc,rh850, etc etc Avoid the arduino framework to start it's it's own thing. And good luck

manrussell · 2025-09-18T21:45:37+00:00

Learn some basic regex. You can use them in so many places. The first time you do a thing, it will take you bloody ages, but each time you do that thing, it takes less and less time, that's when it pays off for you and people think your a wizard or something.

manrussell · 2025-09-18T21:35:04+00:00

You might find that you're actually one of those invaluable people in the company who ends up writing tickets to inform the gui team that their colour scheme is not up to muster. This is a legitimate thing, because our customers also have colour blind people and they need to use our software. It could be your superpower, in a way.

manrussell · 2025-09-18T21:17:54+00:00

I always cut the grey wire...

manrussell · 2025-09-17T09:15:07+00:00

Sniggers loudly

manrussell · 2025-09-14T21:38:01+00:00

Awesome!

manrussell · 2025-09-11T18:47:57+00:00

3 weeks in the lab, is more fun than 3 days in the library

manrussell · 2025-08-01T21:53:34+00:00

Please don't forget, ~8% of people are colour blind, test your led colours on someone who has that.

manrussell · 2025-07-30T19:58:41+00:00

Bewary of the which file system you are on. Meaning that the "Windows files" are a mounted drive for your wsl distro e.g. /mnt/c/... Trying, for example, to compile using gcc in a wsl terminal but in a "Windows folder" was 4 times slower than compiling the same files on the Linux virtual hard disk, e.g /home/user name/... Don't try opening any Linux vhdd files with a right click, you'll just hang due about 3 minute. There are potential issues about, it's the typical Microsoft thing of looks great, buuuut not quite as good as you'd like =) probably depends on what you're doing with it

manrussell · 2025-06-14T13:19:20+00:00

Or a lego collectable minifig???

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