Geoffrey Hunter

I have a magic trick for you: 1. Take your age. 2. Multiply it by i. 3. Multiply it by i again. 4. Multiply it by i again. 5. Multiply it by i again. That's your age!

I finished a new track over the holiday break called Bird Song. Since my vocal abilities are near absolute zero, bird sounds make a great replacement (bonus: they don't demand royalties). Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/geoffrey-hunte…

Ok so Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) is pretty much magic (and is my new favourite comms bus). Just a single twisted pair cable can provide simultaneous, bidirectional data transfer at 10 Mbps for 1km and up to 50W of power.

I've been busy on the weekend, NinjaTerm v4.20.0 is out! New features include: * Added timestamps to incoming data, including custom formats. * Added a copy icon to copy all terminal text to the system clipboard. * Added the ability to set default colours ninjaterm.mbedded.ninja

New track out! open.spotify.com/track/0DNmkdB8…

After messing around with music for many years I finally got my A in G and finished a song, and I've released it on Spotify! (and iTunes, YouTube Music, e.t.c.). Take a listen! Hopefully more to follow. open.spotify.com/track/7l56urkh…

I was messing around with Jenga blocks the other day and noticed this interesting pattern! Create a vertical stack of blocks and then starting at the top, slide each one over as far to one side as it can go before it tips. You get what looks like an exponential decay.

Sometimes you come across funny alternative "what does that mean?" acronym definitions for engineering things. My favourites are: IDC: The "It Did not Connect" connector. MELF: "Most End up Lying on Floor". A cylindrical component package used for diodes.

Bugging - The first phase of software programming before the debugging phase begins.

When mentally timing Olivia in a running race around the house I realized that I'd been committing an off-by-one error for my entire life. You must start from 0 when you say "Go", not 1!

Memfault, a company which provides cloud-based monitoring/analytics for smart electronic devices noticed a considerable uptick in microcontroller resets during the days which the May solar storm (remember those beautiful Auroras?) was the highest. memfault.com/blog/solar-sto…

@Memfault @6a6763 @wittyelk @mferraro89 @McuOnEclipse @HaskRay @bitluni @ricardoquesada @hirrolot @fast_code_r_us @voidstarsec Glad you liked NinjaCalc! I saw a spike in the number of visitors to the app around Jun 7th, now I know why :-D

Here are our favorite articles and tools from May. Swifties, don't miss the concert wristband hack! 🎤 hubs.la/Q02zQhBY0 Shout out to @6a6763, @wittyelk, @gbmhunter, @mferraro89, @McuOnEclipse, @HaskRay, @bitluni, @ricardoquesada, @hirrolot, @fast_code_r_us, @voidstarsec

While Caitlin has been asleep on my chest I've been able to add some features to NinjaTerm! Some feature requests by other people have been completed: 1) Add "quick port settings" next to the terminal so you can quickly change settings 2) Sending break signals at the end of hex

Added profile support to NinjaTerm! Some people requested that it would be nice to quickly save/load serial port configurations. ninjaterm.mbedded.ninja/app

NinjaTerm v4.13.0 released! I've added copy/paste support of terminal text with Ctrl-Shift-C/V. ninjaterm.mbedded.ninja

If GitHub Copilot is trained on existing data, why would it suggest the use of the literal value for e rather than the provided constant? Surely none of the code it's trained on does this?

@prince_chrismc Thanks for the link....I just noticed that the table formatting is now broken, and the Disqus comment section looks broken also (I've done some CSS changes lately modifying the width of content and adding dark mode). Oppps! Imma have to go fix these.

Found this gem doing research for my next blog from 2018 by @gbmhunter blog.mbedded.ninja/programming/bu… Had a small chuckle reading it, totally worth it.

Scrolling bug in NinjaTerm finally fixed! It was a tricky one to fix, one some computers (of course...not the one I do all my testing on) a "ghost" onScroll event would be fired from the "react-window" library I use even though the user did no such thing. ninjaterm.mbedded.ninja

We managed to ban plastic bags from supermarkets, but now someone decided it would be a good idea to package apples like tennis balls (seen in New World)? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A page about triangles! Covers the basic trigonometric ratios and the Law of Sines/Cosines. High-school maths that's useful again and again in engineering. blog.mbedded.ninja/mathematics/ge…