Winter Isn’t Everyone’s Season I know that quite a few out there are probably enjoying the winter seasonal break as much as I am. My thoughts are with you and I empathise. There are days when it’s too wet and cold to do your leisure thing. It might be hiking, gardening, pottering around in the … More It’s Wet and Grey!
Just an update on where I am and why the blog posts slowed down. … More Wrapping Up Another Year of Blogging.
I have another RTFM (Read the Manual) story to share: Ever see a diagram and think “what the heck is going on here?” I’ve spent a lot of time developing code for SPI devices or devices that utilize some form of shift register input. This is the first time in a while that I’ve seen … More A Confusing Timing Diagram
At dinner on Sunday, an old friend and I were discussing recent issues and anomlies we’e encountered with the I2C bus.
I’ve made a note of them on my blog to help familiarize others with some of the more abstract and uncommon issues on I2C buses. … More Three, new to me, I2C issues!
Making time to learn while on the job is sometimes hard to justify. Not making time to learn is hard to defend.
There are two software tools I use frequently, but I know I am barely utilizing them to their full potential. I get good information from them to analyze problems and validate solutions. However, I know there is an additional level of capability that I haven’t had a chance to explore.
I’m making time to learn them better. Knowing my tools will help me speed up my debug efforts, and help me profile system performance. … More Slowing Down to Learn
A follow-up on my last post about semantic line breaks, or semantic linefeeds. … More More on Semantic Linebreaks/Linefeeds.
Last night GitBooks completely garbled my paragraphs because I’d added new lines in the middle of my paragraphs. Something that I always do, but last night it went very wrong. … More Semantic Line Breaks
Life is a continuous learning experience. I have been using RS485 for about 20 years, on and off. Despite all that experience, I found something new for my toolkit a few months ago. I suspect some of my audience has been using the same RS485 solution for decades. There will be a similar portion who … More RS485 Auto-direction
A short post to announce the soft launch of a book I’ve been writing. … More Am I now a published author?
A teaser of upcoming technical posts on my blog. … More Upcoming Technical Content
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