In recent years there has been great developments with cross platform libraries, many of which are a great fit for the C language.  Lets start off by running though a few libraries, first off the obvious one – OpenGL, there has been some upheavals with OpenGL over the years, but all in all, once you… Read More »

After managing to trash the EFI entry (in nvram) for my OS because of a user unfriendly BIOS, I thought it was about time I checked out what EFI Shell could do for me.  EFI Shell is a CLI (command line interface) – a kind of mini DOS if you like, that allows you to… Read More »

  I recently decided to use C for a few projects mainly just for the practice, using an array of open source libraries (GLFW, GLad, OpenDE) it occurred to me that in *theory* as C is probably one of the more portable “native” languages, then it should be possible to make code that will compile… Read More »

Hex grids are useful for any number of reasons but if you’ve ever used them yourself you no doubt know of they have some interesting properties too. Looking at the very simple 4 hex “map” you can see two routes A and B They are both equally valid taking the same number of steps and… Read More »

So I’m going to start this post with the only slight negative that I can with the service that I’ve received from allpcb.com if you look *really* closely and I mean really, really closely you can just about make out that there is a tiny misalignment of the pads and holes on the top connector,… Read More »

I’ve got a tonne of use out of the icestorm project, with it fitting into the way I work really well… I’ve ended up putting together a simple Makefile that I use when starting a new project, simple rules allow the project to be compiled and even allow you to directly program the fpga’s cram… Read More »

Inspired by a script I found on github (https://github.com/RC2014Z80/RC2014/blob/master/ROMs/hexload/bin2bas2.py) I decided to make my own script and make it more useful to my own use case.  (its nothing new and mainly here as my own aide-mémoire) Having a 64KB ram system there are a few differences to a system just running with 32KB (so you’ll… Read More »

You see highlighted here a CP2102 USB serial converter, now just to be clear it could well be if you own a cable or board based around the CP2102 it may well work just peachy for you… Just not this one. I’ve held on to it for longer than I should have despite the intermittent… Read More »

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A dissatisfaction with the Kotlin compiler (seemingly you can’t compile inter dependent sources on their own…) lead me to have a quick look at other JVM alternatives.  Scala is a project which by now is mature and stable, its also had significant financial backing from a number of sources, which at least gives you the… Read More »