Counting to the end of the world

Counting to the end of the world

How big of a number is 64bit? Quite big as it turns out:

Why floats are illegal

Why floats are illegal

Let’s see why floats are traditionally avoided in embedded systems. In reverse in a system that does use them, removing them is a very good opportunity to save space when needed.

Going over the bus size

Going over the bus size

Let’s do the experiment of doing calculations bigger than the bus size of a modern microcontroller and see how bad the generated assembly code look.

Using python in a webapp

Using python in a webapp

We have a look at what goes into making a webpage able to call a python script. As it turns out the security requirements makes it so that it requires quite a few layers of script:

Multitasking without an OS

Multitasking without an OS

Let’s see how to have multiple tasks inside of our micro controller without having to install an OS in it.