Jan 6, 2021ESP-IDF for Arduino Users Tutorials Part 3, App Setup and LoopThis is the 3rd part of a series of ESP-IDF tutorials that I will complete as I learn stuff. Read part 2. Arduino uses this idiom which we all know and love. // Set up the application void setup() { } // Loop forever void loop() { } On first…1 min read1 min read
Jan 3, 2021ESP-IDF for Arduino Users, Tutorials Part 2: DelayThis is the second part of a series of ESP-IDF tutorials that I will complete as I learn stuff. Read part 1. One of the best things about Arduino is the ability to just block for a period with: delay(1000); // hang on a second, buddy It’s also one of…1 min read1 min read
Dec 30, 2020ESP-IDF for Arduino Users, Tutorials Part 1: LoggingThis is the first part of a series of ESP-IDF tutorials that I will complete as I learn stuff. Consider the following Arduino code: Serial.println(“begining”); I call this the “Arduino debugger”. It’s a joke. Arduino has no debugger — don’t be silly, Ali! It’s not really debugging, it’s logging. How…1 min read1 min read
Dec 30, 2020ESP-IDF Tutorials Part 0: PrologueIntroduction I have started to try to learn the ESP-IDF. What will follow is a series of short articles as I learn the individual components of the IDF and how to do things that are easy in Arduino. Why? Arduino has been getting me down for a while. Note: I mean the…1 min read1 min read
Mar 16, 2020Recompiling the Coral Dev Board Mendel Linux KernelCoral dev boards are rather amazing single board computers. They are designed to run Tensorflow in a tiny little box. They run NXP’s iMX8, have a sound card, ethernet, USB-C, HDMI, and a built-in USB serial terminal. Google shipped these with a custom Debian-based Linux distribution called Mendel which is…IoT2 min readIoT2 min read
Jan 1, 2017Vanilla is the best flavourI know. There were even jokes about it. But this is a little story about how and why I learned to love the web platform. There are no accouterments, no hint-of-cardamom, and not even a sprig of mint. The first thing I realised is that the web platform is really…Web Development4 min readWeb Development4 min read
Dec 9, 2016Writing offline web apps is easyI spend a good chunk of my life coding web apps without internet access. It’s been an interesting experience. And I learned something: offline web apps are easy to write. When I say offline, I mean that a browser should have to hit a website for its data exactly one…Service Worker2 min readService Worker2 min read
Dec 6, 2016Web components are easy now (it’s just the web)(And back to regular programming with my humble apologies for interrupting the flow of drivellous technodetritus with trivial matters of social justice.) I’m a web noob. I recently wrote a web app. It is a single-pagey progressivish thing and I learned much web development. Some thoughts… One aspect I really…JavaScript3 min readJavaScript3 min read
Published inHuman Development Project·Sep 14, 2016To the 4 white male policemen who beat me for checking the health of a sick black man in their custody…You may or may not know that the incidence and relapse rates of schizophrenia in African-Caribbean males in Western countries has been reported as being much higher than equivalent white male cohorts. E.g. We found remarkably high IRRs for both schizophrenia and manic psychosis in both African-Caribbeans (schizophrenia 9.1, manic…BlackLivesMatter4 min readBlackLivesMatter4 min read
May 24, 2016Progressive Internet of Things AppliancesI’ve been thinking a lot about IoT recently. Mostly because we built these foosball tables for Google I/O 2016. At the same time, my friends in the web world have been talking about Progressive Web Apps (PWA) for a while. The general idea, I think, is that applications “work for…IoT3 min readIoT3 min read
