Getting an ARM toolchain on MacOS 10.6

I'm starting to play with ARM microcontrollers, and building a toolchain is a necessary step. Here's a log of my experiences.

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

Playing with PICs on MacOS X

The tools I use when playing with PIC microcontrollers

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

Etch to lenny upgrades on Xen

I have a bunch of virtual Debian machines on a Xen box. When they were installed I used etch, but I've just moved one domU to lenny: here's my crib sheet. I suspect it won't be generally useful.

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

Faking geocaches in Garmin GPX files

Garmin GPS receivers have a special mode to handle geocaches, but it's not been clear to me how the gadget decides which waypoints are geocaches. These brief notes describe something which works for me.

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

Filtering GPS tracks

In practice I find that the tracklogs stored by my Garmin GPS receiver are quite noisy. gpsbabel easily filters the data, but having forgotten the relevant rules once, I thought I'd document them here.

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

The Bus Pirate on MacOS

Self-help notes on using the bus pirate on MacOS—mainly links to other documentation.

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

Starch Free Tiramisu

At a recent dinner party, one of my guests couldn't eat starch. This didn't seem compatible with my desire to serve tiramisu, but happily the lure of creamy coffee proved enough of an inspiration to find a solution: instead of coffee soaked sponge use coffee jelly.

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

A Toy Language Model

I wanted a toy language model so that I could write software which would identify the language of text.

The motivation for this is simple: given a list of geocaches, which ones have descriptions which I can understand!

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

Perl tools for MPFS2

Recent versions of Microchip's TCP/IP stack (after version 4.11) use a new filing system and web server: MPFS2 and HTTP2. Microchip supply a Windows program, MPFS2.exe to manage things, but this is quite inconvenient for people on Linux or OS X. These Perl programs try to help.

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

Post the First

The first article

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

TCP-IP v4.16 and Olimex flash

An easy way to patch recent versions (e.g. 4.16) of the Microchip PIC TCP-IP stack to work with the Atmel flash EEPROMs on Olimex boards.

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

ADSL modem rebooting

Controlling things over Ethernet, here a hung ADSL modem, with the PIC Mini Web from Olimex. This is more of a brief sketch, to test the blogging software, than anything too deep or insightful.

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

Stripboard Templates

A simple Perl script to generate blank stripboard templates.

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

Avrdude Cookbook

I find it hard to remember the options I need when calling avrdude, but I don't know enough to work them out reliably every time. So, here's my handy cribsheet.

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

Places to eat in the Lake District

Some brief notes on places to eat in the Lake District taken on a trip in September 2008.

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

Apple Cake

A recipe for apple cake.

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010