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Update 2026-03-07: Added example of generated output.

Introduction I’ve had drafts of Exploring Uncut posts on my computer for months now.

Game follow-up As we had another GeekClub meeting at the beginning of the month, I wanted to make some progress on my embedded game development so I would have something cool to show my friends. 3D Modeling Back in March, I described how I modeled and 3D-…

HWS+ livestream Saturday, May 17th marked another Hacking with Swift+ subscriber livestream.

Update 2025-07-12: Swiftly 1.0.1 has now been released and it fixes the problem described in this post.

It’s been a while since the last “Exploring Uncut” post, so without further ado, here’s a recap of some of the fun and important things from the past few weeks.

Update 2025-07-12: Swiftly 1.0.1 has now been released and it fixes the problem described in this post.

Battery low As you might have noticed, there was no post last week.

Structs, classes and memory I continued my reflection on how value and reference semantic impacts the memory allocation in the generated code.

Embedded Swift Community Hour Last Friday, Rauhul organized an Embedded Swift Community Hour call on Discord, where members of the community interested in Embedded Swift gathered, presented their projects and talked about the future of this topic.

A bit of a social life Not much happened this week in terms of exploration.

Introduction I would like to publish more often on this blog.

Introduction Back in November 2024, as I closed my Blink them to death using Embedded Swift presentation at Pragma Conf, I promised to release the source code of the 3 projects I presented before the end of the year.

Introduction I find Homebrew super convenient to install and keep up to date the large collection of tools I rely on.

Introduction In this post, we’ll continue exploring Embedded Swift on an nRF 52840 dk, using the nRF Connect SDK.

Update 2025-07-12: Added import statement for getentropy() implementation in stubs.c Introduction Randomness comes in handy in many different places.

Introduction In the last post, Creating a Swift type for button input on nRF52 - Part 1, we worked on code to abstract interacting with a button in Swift code.

Introduction In my previous post, Controlling an LED using Embedded Swift on nRF52, we created a Swift struct to encapsulate the C code required to control an LED.

Introduction In my previous post, nrfx-blink Step by Step, I took you through the steps required to configure your development environment to build and flash the “Blinky” Embedded Swift example from Apple on an nRF52840 DK.

Introduction When getting started with Embedded Swift, the examples published by Apple are really an incredible resource.

Introduction When I discovered the Omi (previously Friend) project and wanted to build myself a device, I followed the instructions on their getting started page.

Introduction Friend is an open-source wearable AI device that captures your conversations, transcribes and summarises them, and offers a ton of features based on that information.

Several weeks ago, I created the nelcea/PAL: Wearable AI exploration repository on GitHub.

And just like that, WWDC week has come and gone… As expected, there were plenty of announcements across all OSes, both user-facing and technical - including the big one on Apple Intelligence.

Introduction I started looking into AVAudioFile while working on PALApp, my exploration into the world of portable AI.

It’s been a bit more than one month since my initial post on Portable AI and things are moving fast.

As ADeus was the first wearable AI open-source project I discovered, I started building a device based on the hardware they were using, and more specifically on the tutorial at ADeus - Raspberry Pi Zero W Setup Guide.

AI, LLMs and generative models have now been known and used by a majority of the population, technical or not.

Introduction As a simple intro into visionOS, I used the most simple app I have, AWG Convert, and set-up to add native support for visionOS to it.

Introduction Yesterday, during the super interesting Unwrap Live 2024 stream on visionOS from Paul Hudson, I asked the question on whether it was possible to have your visionOS start in “portrait mode”.

As I’m getting more serious about using Obsidian as my primary note taking application, having the content available on multiple devices becomes critical.

Or so I thought… Last week, I had received a shipping notification for my Rift DK2, indicating a delivery for this Monday.

As about 40.000 people on the planet, I’m patiently waiting for my Oculus Rift DK2 to arrive.

I’ll confess, focus is not my forte!