Embedded systems and stuff
Project status: This is a work in progress. Please support me on Patreon if you’d like to see me continue to work on it: https://www.patreon.com/chrislaplante This project is something that I started in September 2020. My original intent was to use the High Quality camera, telephoto lens, and a handful of 3D printed parts to …
Today I have submitted a pull request to the excellent meta-raspberrypi Yocto layer to add recipes for a variety of CircuitPython packages. Assuming it is merged in, this will make it easy to use CircuitPython and Adafruit hardware on the Raspberry Pi 4, Zero, Zero W, and all other supported models. The pull request includes …
Long time no write! Recently I’ve received an outpouring of interest in this project which has reinvigorated my desire to work on it. To help myself be able to do so, I have started a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chrislaplante. For anyone who is interested in this project moving forward, I would appreciate your support! Please note, the …
This is the first in a (probably) three part series. Checkout the code on BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/MostThingsWeb/temper-bridge/src/master/main/ About a year ago, I decided to upgrade my old spring mattress to a TEMPUR-Contour Elite Breeze and I cannot say enough good things about it. I opted to also get an adjustable base (this one) for it, which …
[OUTDATED – It has been a while since I looked at this, so it’s probably very outdated.] Spoiler alert: I was unable to find a solution to this issue, and ended up deploying a new VCSA instance. I made the mistake of not assigning a static IP address to my vCenter Server Appliance instance. When …
In a recent bash script, I needed to obtain the value of the $VIM environment variable. Vim uses $VIM (as well as $HOME and $VIMRUNTIME) when computing various paths: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Open_vimrc_file#Location_of_vimrc. Default value of $VIM It is possible to find the default (fall-back) value for $VIM by inspecting the output of running vim –version. Here’s a …
Some motivation Django has a field called ChoiceField which lets you very easily create a <select> dropdown in your forms. A great feature is the ability to transform nested choices into appropriate <optgroup> groups. For instance, the following code: …creates a field that when rendered looks something like this: The HTML that Django produced looks …
About a year ago I published an article entitled Parsing HTML with C++. It is by far my most popular article (second most popular being this one), and is a top result on Google for queries such as “html c++ parsing”. Nevertheless there is always room for improvement. Today, I present a revisit of the …
I was planning on writing a beginner’s tutorial for using PWM on raw AVR chips, but I found that Arduino already has a nice guide here: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/SecretsOfArduinoPWM The only change you need to make to their code to use it without the Arduino software is to remove calls to “pinMode”. Do so by using the appropriate …
[OUTDATED – It has been a while since I looked at this, so it’s probably very outdated. Please check the comments.] I came across a nice example of a Twisted “man-in-the-middle” style proxy on Stack Overflow. This style of proxy is great for logging traffic between two endpoints, as well as modifying the requests and …