Jake Robert Read

× ‹ › “Everyone has already heard about the young person who comes to Shenzhen to make something and is astounded by the city, this is an old story - let’s talk about something else” An MIT Alum said this to me in our cab ride back from our visit to a mar…

Deployable robots in the woods!

What feels like ages ago when we were both at the CBA, Sam Calisch pointed out to me that it’s possible to control a stepper motor as if it were a brushless motor, using field oriented control, aka FOC - everyone’s favourite motor control algorithm.

I’ve been at the CBA for seven and one half years and it is time to scoot.

Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) are a great pattern for interfacing with embedded codes - especially when they replace serial string parsers - but they can be tiresome to generate by-hand.

MUDLink on GitHub / Arduino I built a new library for Arduino that lets us promote any Serial port (UART) into a competent link / transport layer with guaranteed delivery of framed packets.

TL:DR, I wrote an RPC protocol and compiler tool for Arduino that lets us quickly turn hardware modules into software modules.

A lotta charts and graphs in this one, friends!

Open Hardware has the potential to change the way we make and maintain our world - but we need to learn how to put our heads together to do it.

Werner Herzog does Music Machines We had a fun week trying to make this off-the-research-piste project at Haystack this July.