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Device Updates: Cut Down Time and Data Usage
Have you ever suspected that the way updates are handled on your embedded devices wastes electricity, drives up customer cellular data bills or takes longer than really needed? Let’s look at how device updates have traditionally been done…
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Our Engineers: Martin Wellard
Martin Wellard has been with Dojo Five since August of 2021 as a Senior Firmware Engineer. Martin currently resides in the artsy and cultured Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia. The area was named from the Lenape Indian word “Manaiung”, which translates to “place to drink”…
Our Engineers: Joe Perrin
Joe is a Senior Firmware Engineer at Dojo Five, and came onboard in August of 2021. He has lived in Indiana his whole life, growing up in Indianapolis as a city boy, spending his college and post-graduate years in West Lafayette, and now tends a 5 acre farmstead…
Our Engineers: Jon Cantey
Jon Cantey is a Senior Firmware Engineer at Dojo Five and joined us in July of 2021, and works remotely from West Lafayette, IN. Growing up in Greensboro, NC and Virginia Beach, VA, Jon got into computers and fell in love with programming with the TRS-80…
Device Updates: Cut Down Time and Data Usage
Have you ever suspected that the way updates are handled on your embedded devices wastes electricity, drives up customer cellular data bills or takes longer than really needed? Let’s look at how device updates have traditionally been done…
Our Engineers: Bryan Siepert
Bryan Siepert joined Dojo Five as a Firmware Engineer in June of 2021, working from San Francisco, CA – home of legendary fog, amazing Mexican food, and a few other remarkable things…
Our Engineers: Kane Iverson
Kane Iverson is a senior firmware engineer at Dojo Five, and he’s been our ace systems engineer since August, 2020. Kane resides in Portland, Oregon…
Our Engineers: Ben Hammen
Ben is Livin’ the Dream on a Farmette. He has been a Principal Firmware Engineer at Dojo Five since May of 2021, and is our favorite Wisconsinite on staff, residing in Berlin, WI…
Our Engineers: Ander Galisteo
Dr. Ander Galisteo started at Dojo Five as our resident security expert and Senior Firmware Engineer in May of 2021. While he probably can’t actually see into the future, he resides in Andoain, Spain…
Making Your Code Easy to Read
Making code easy to read is not only a kindness shown to your fellow developers, but also to future you! If you read our previous post in this series, you should know the basics on how to read code and the important things to look out for…
Our Engineers: Zhi Xuen Lai
Zhi Xuen Lai is a Firmware Engineer with Dojo Five, and has been slinging code with us since May of 2019. Zhi has a BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Minnesota…
Our Engineers: Aaron Fontaine
Aaron Fontaine joined Dojo Five as a Senior Firmware Engineer in April of 2021. He has Minnesota in his heart, growing up in Southwest Minneapolis, attending college in Duluth and settling back in South Minneapolis…
Our Engineers: Taylor Street
Taylor Street is a Senior Firmware Engineer at Dojo Five and joined us in March of 2021. He works remotely from beautiful Carson City, Nevada. Taylor’s background is diverse, which helps him bring a unique…
Our Engineers: Patrick Little
Patrick Little is a Senior Firmware Engineer at Dojo Five and joined us in March of 2021. Patrick always thought he was going to be “a programmer” growing up…
Plant Moisture Monitoring with an STM32 Nucleo
Zhi Xuen Lai of Dojo Five walks you through his plant moisture monitoring project, which uses an STM32 Nucleo board and includes mobile notifications.
Useful Python Packages For Parsing HTML Report
Static analysis tools such as IAR C-STAT, Cppcheck, and Flawfinder are able to generate reports in the form of HTML files. To learn how and why it is necessary to add a static analysis tool to your firmware builds, check out our 10 Easy Steps to Add Static Analysis to Your Firmware Build and Static…
I’ve been using Markdown all this time??
Sometimes you need something lightweight for text files that doesn’t require all the fancy tools and formatting that is offered by other languages, such as HTML – but is still readable and mergeable as a text file. If that resonates with you, chances are good that Markdown is what you are looking for. Even if…
Three Suggestions for Successful Code Reviews
We’ve all been a part of bad code reviews. Both as the developer and as the reviewer. If you haven’t, you’re extremely lucky! Code approved with zero comments seconds after the pull request was submitted are just as frustrating as ones with an entire novel, possibly with several copies of the same chapter, written across…
Using a Git GUI Isn’t All Bad (And Sometimes Pretty Useful)
While not the popular opinion of CLI git users, I’ve gotten a ton of mileage from my git GUI. Using the CLI rather than a GUI provides a lot of value: seeing the bigger picture of your code and being able to navigate through different branches, commits or history can become clean and easy to…
Testing Python Scripts in A Docker Container
Most Python scripts require external packages. Many require a specific version of these packages or even the Python interpreter. Instead of installing these dependencies globally on your machine, you can either create an isolated virtual environment using Python virtual environments (venv) or create a Docker container. While there is a lot to like about virtual…
Start with the Process, Finish with the Work
Start with the process, Finish with the work To obtain regulatory approval for medical device software, you’ll need to comply with the IEC-62304 Medical Device Software Lifecycle standard. This standard requires that specific methodologies are followed. It doesn’t dictate the specifics, but it does require that the medical device manufacturer defines a set of software…