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
I spent the first part of today (and some of yesterday) implementing point dragging and addition in our flight planning software. As it stands it’s working quite well… it remains to be added the ability to change the altitude of points, and delete them, but things are well underway. After that, I just need to… Read more
Last Thursday I was working on the project, trying to get the Bluetooth serial link working. I was having a lot of trouble… it just didn’t make sense; I could get something transmitted, albeit garbage, only if I choose a baud rate much lower than it should have been. Then of course later – after… Read more
So, I finally had some time this week to get back onto Google Maps, and it’s been pretty good thus far. I started by trying to figure out how to pull images out of WebKit’s spiderweb. Sadly the WebResourceLoadDelegate never actually provides you with the response data, so you have to go querying the WebDataSource… Read more
Well, I never thought it would happen, but it turns out one of those annoying chores of uni work actually paid off, in a non-too-trivial way. For project we’re expected to keep, and are marked on, a log book. Now, I’m all for taking notes of things; everything within reach of my desk has crap… Read more