January 2018 – Marginally Clever Robots

Tutorials

The Best way to program an Arduino Microcontroller from the Linux Command Line Interface

2018-01-12 Dan

Updating arduino code over the internet hasn’t been easy for me before now. In this post I will show you how to update 200+ different microcontrollers from the Linux Command Line Interface (CLI) using PlatformIO. My specific example (see instagram video below) will be a Teensy 3.2 using a Raspberry Pi, but you can repeat it for many other combinations with a little effort. This method is specifically for the times when you have no Graphical User Interface (GUI) What-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) into the remote machine such as TeamViewer and all you have a bare bones text interface to the remote device.

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If I unfocus my eyes I can see #nyancat in the #code. Stare at the #matrix long enough and you get used to it, though. All I see is blond, brunette, redhead. #led #wall @vanhackspace #update

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CES 2018 Robots? Mostly Garbage

2018-01-08 Dan

Right! I’m in a bad mood today and the crap out of CES 2018 isn’t helping. My short review is “most of these are garbage, and the rest have some brain damage.” Here’s a quick run down of the big ticket items and why I do or do not like them. (more…)