Embedded Developer

I have been putting together some simulators for the Small Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) also known as the Manchester Baby.

The last few months has seen a switch over to maintaining a piece of ESP32 firmware (for the ESP32 Pico D4).

Occasionally you come across a command or technique that is not only amazingly useful but also something you wish you had known about years ago.

Change occasionally throws us a curve ball and this was the case last month.

2026 looks to be the year in which software development using AI assistance becomes useful in the embedded world.

There is little doubt that the use of AI in coding is improving developer productivity both in the production of code and also diagnosing issues.

Some notable resources for anyone starting Rust.

Espressif has recently released a cross-platform installation manager for the SDK used with ESP32 boards.

The previous post installed the toolchain and verified that the tools had been installed.

An upcoming project is going to require the use of a number of logic gates from the 7400 series of integrated circuits.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation have recently announced an update to the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension.

Enums in Rust have some properties over and above those found in C/C++ Data can be associated with them Methods can be implemented for an enum The final item in the list was only briefly covered in chapter 6 of The Rust Programming Language book so we will