Month: April 2014
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Notes To Myself: Migrating legacy Microchip C18 projects to MPLAB X + XC8 toolchain, Windows 7
First note to myself: NEVER USE MICROCHIP AGAIN. If I didn’t just need to make “a couple tiny updates” to an already selling, on-the-shelf project I’d just scrap the PIC18 for an EFM32TGxxx part, gcc (shaft of light from the sky, harps playing melodically) and be done with this entire shit-show. Insert whining about the…
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The Internet, things, and you
Ha ha, apparently proselytizing about the “Internet of Things” is trendy again. Don’t hold your breath kids; until IPv6 is a thing that’s really a thing, enjoy your “small home network of things”, where your game console, thermostat and toaster have 192.168.x.x IP addresses dangling from your cablemodem, and require a 3rd-party cloud service to…