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
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