STM32 to Blinky with Rust – Part 3 – HAL and Blinky
Now we’ll blink the LEDs on the STM32F407G-DISC1 Discovery board, starting with a single LED and finishing with all four in a pattern.
2024-07-04
STM32 to Blinky with Rust – Part 2 – Development and Debug Toolchain
This time we’re creating a basic embedded project in Rust that prints “Hello, world!” over the debug interface.
2024-06-30
#NewMusicMonday – Cheap Dirty Horse, The Masochists and a (dis)honourable mention
This week’s #NewMusicMonday is all about punk, politics and protest in the UK. We’re gearing up for a General Election, where the incumbent blue coloured right-wing party will be ousted by a red coloured right-leaning party; plus ça change…
2024-06-24
STM32 to Blinky with Rust – Part 1 – Hardware – STM32F407G-DISC1
For around £20 you can buy a development board with an Arm Cortex M4 and some peripherals including an accelerometer, microphone, DAC, and USB OTG port. This documents my attempt to get a rust toolchain installed, connect the debugger and confirm it can see the ARM chip, ready for programming.
2024-06-20
#NewMusicMonday – Alkanes, Broadsea & PaperSailor
In an effort to “be the change [I] want to see”, I’m going to do my best to share my own #NewMusicMonday choices with the fediverse every week, and see if I can’t find some likeminded folks. This week it’s albums and EPs from Alkanes, Broadsea and PaperSailor.
2024-06-17
Data loss: A blind-spot in my backup strategy
Last week I suffered a catastrophic disk failure, leaving my 1TB NVMe drive completely unreadable. Luckily I have backups, I thought.
2024-04-01
Stacking Loyalty Schemes for Extra Discounts
This post is very “Guardian Reader” of me, and for that I apologise in advance. One morning I found myself absent mindedly reading the back of my yogurt pot whilst eating my breakfast. This yogurt was made by Yeo Valley Organic and was advertising some kind of loyalty scheme called “Yeokens”. I’d never really thought…
2024-03-10