I was interested to follow this guide to doing an Arduino FreeRTOS install. It’s a good tutorial and my post here just adds a few more notes around areas that didn’t immediately make sense to me. Also check out the Arduino FreeRTOS source code on GitHub Arduino FreeRTOS This section has a few notes about… Read More »
Build Custom Linux Kernel I was interested to see how to do a Linux Kernel Build from the source code. I followed this guide and while it mostly made sense there were a few areas that I found less clear or had unexpected errors. Initial Set up I used VirtualBox rather than VMWare suggested in… Read More »
There are lots of options for logging in python. In this post I wanted to write down one way to do python simple logging. This method should be fairly flexible across different Read more about some more simple logging in python Some General Principles These aren’t always going to be right, but you’ll see these… Read More »
Inspired by the Storytelling With Data book I wanted to try applying some of the techniques to some existing charts and graphs. In all the examples I have been limited in not having access to the original data, so re-plotting hasn’t really been possible. Instead, I have redrawn using Inkscape or Excel and then focused… Read More »
Grid layouts are an important technique in graphic design. This blog post shows how you can make an Inkscape grid layout using another open source publishing tool Scribus. Inkscape Grid Layout Scribus is an open source desktop publishing application and comes with a nice tool for breaking a page up into grids. This is much… Read More »