Disclaimer: I see no harm in doing this as shown below, simply for the sake of changing the colours and [playfully] the strings, but of course don’t be a jackarse and subvert the app for other uses or whatever. Also, if anyone knows a way to use your own CSS and XML files without having… Read more
Now that I have plenty of hard disk space – something I haven’t had for years, but which is a very welcome change (albeit likely to be quite temporary, given how fast it’s being used up) – I decided to move my music back off my iPod. I had to delete the copy on my… Read more
Rob & I have been working on the plane today, which has had some interesting developments and problems. At the onset of dusk we made a last minute dash to a nearby park to get in a flight, given that the wind had finally settled down enough, and although autopilot wasn’t working properly, we figured… Read more
I think I’ve already ranted on this topic previously, so I’ll try to be brief this time around. We’ve had a fair bit of trouble with various peripherals on the board, particularly the Bluetooth module, due to the extremely sad state of affairs that is technical documentation in general. The latest casualty of dodgy documentation… Read more
Ashley just pointed out a recent blog entry from Wil Shipley, the niche famous author of Delicious Library, titled Frozen in Carbonite. In a nutshell he’s lamenting the lack of good APIs from Apple for some of their more fundamental but less buzzy APIs – Quicktime, the keychain & security stuff, etc. Note that I… Read more
+++ ATMF Debug C:UAVmain.c:23 – Initialising block buffers… Debug C:UAVmain.c:27 – Initialising magnetometre… Debug C:UAVmain.c:32 – Initialising physical media… Debug C:UAVDiskPhysicalMedia.c:83 – Ensuring SD card is initialised… Debug C:UAVSDMemoryCard.c:336 – Initialising SPI… Debug C:UAVSDMemoryCard.c:341 – Initialising SD card… Debug C:UAVSDMemoryCard.c:349 – Starting card up………………. Debug C:UAVSDMemoryCard.c:361 – Waiting for card to boot…. Debug C:UAVSDMemoryCard.c:380 -… Read more
For the past two weeks or so Rob & I have been developing the UAV software on the AVR, finally. As I’ve noted in a few previous entries. And it’s been just one giant bug-hunt, for the most part, but we’re making progress. Bluetooth works. We have my very own printf substitute that’s quite tiny…… Read more