Steve Mayze

Developing remote sensor firmware using Test Driven Development @MicrochipMakes blog.adafruit.com/2023/12/14/dev…

@Chris_Gammell Lesson One. Forget anything you have learned about any other scripting language. Speaking from the perspective of someone trying to use terraform with no introduction 😕

@zam_erlangen My technical writeup about creating a text display using an ATTiny1614 and a shift register. smayze.wordpress.com/2022/07/10/con…

Reprogrammed my NEO Pixel driver board that uses a @MicrochipMakes ATTiny1614 normally used for Christmas lights to now be a text display driving 8 RGBW LED NEO Pixel strips. Hanging now at ZAM @betreiberver1.

youtube.com/watch?v=4qqnHt… Here is where would have had to push a map update with Royal Mail.

Jetzt wird Spannend. Gerade eingetroffen. PCBs für Teil 2. @kicad_pcb Workshop in @zam_erlangen

Thanks @edupuertasfruns. This is very cool 😎

This on par if not better than the Olympic James Bond scene. The Queen having tea with Paddington - incredible that at 96 and after 70 years on the throne she still has the power to surprise #platinumpartyatthepalace

@Chris_Gammell Same here. I just don't use it often enough to get the practice. What should take 15 mins ends up an hour mostly watching videos. When I achieve the result I want, I usually forget the pain until next time.

Trying out a couple of ways to R/W IO lines - one trials the #maximite2 a fun device that brings back memories of the Apple ][ smayze.wordpress.com/2022/04/13/dif…

@baldengineer Is this the precursor for a new tutorial? 🙂

Anyone that calls out decade value capacitors (100nF, 1uF, 10uF) has done literally no math and probably no measurements. Change my mind.

also omg the boards for the ring thing came in and THEY ARE SO TINY. This is a 6-layer board that sports a microcontroller, accelerometer, light sensor, RGB+W LED's, OH AND IT'S 9.8 MILLIMETERS ACROSS! Now who @ Microchip do I gotta slide $20 to get some WLCSP SAM D10 samples? 😛

@Chris_Gammell It requires a bit of discipline, but the use of the spreadsheet also helps with propagating changes.

The KiCad 2021 year end funding drive has begun. kicad.org/blog/2021/12/K…

A laser cut Christmas tree with candle light LEDs. Sometimes what seems to be a simple idea is not so simple in the end. With a prototype, there is always room for improvement. smayze.wordpress.com/2021/12/03/get…

This is the most exciting publish so far. We just launched a @Kickstarter campaign, explained here: youtu.be/uw4NvT7jv6s

@Chris_Gammell @timonsku @bitluni I know it sounds boring ... but seeing connectors and enclosures up close and not on a web page is helpful.

@hjwp @XBeeWireless The tricky part was getting to that stage with unit tests that made sense. It felt odd to be unit testing against the fake version. I had to view this as establishing the contract between the domain and services.

@hjwp @XBeeWireless There won't be enough space in a tweet to answer in full. Basically, once I understood the use of the adapter and how to apply it in my case, then everything seemed to just fall into place.

A write-up describing my approach and experience using #tdd to interface Python with some XBees to create a small gateway. Thanks @hjwp, @XBeeWireless smayze.wordpress.com/2021/11/03/cre…