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By: Nwanua Eluweze
Rust appears to be gaining steam as a solid language to solve complex and challenging problems in embedded systems. Here are a few tips that may help you learn Rust.
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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…
The Case for EmbedOps (Embedded DevOps)
From even before the first computer was working, the technology industry has been looking for the best way to write code. Today, as code “eats the world”, the types of things developers need to do is not limited to coding. There are managing releases and versions, managing development environments, testing, integrating, and so on. In…
Secure Boot – What Is It?
Secure Boot Secure Boot is a security standard for devices used during the boot process to ensure only software that is created and trusted by the manufacture is executed. In the embedded world, this translates to preventing malicious code created by an outside source from running on your embedded project. Past Experiences with Secure Boot…
Simulators in EmbedOps: Another Reason DevOps is Beneficial to your Embedded Development Workflow
Arm is no stranger to DevOps or Continuous Integration (CI). They have several pipeline scripts available for Travis CI and outline how they use Jenkins to build and test Mbed OS. But so far, there has not been a demonstration of how to use a simulator in pipelines. We partnered with Arm to show how…
Our Engineers: Peter Gabrail
Pete joined Dojo Five in November of 2019 as a Senior Firmware Engineer. He grew up in a little seed in the forest back in Syracuse, NY and did his first programming in high school, working on Commodores and Amigas as a hobby…
How to set up Xilinx Vivado and Vitis on MacOS
Xilinx makes a number of great products that we have worked with in the past. If you haven’t used an FPGA-based platform before, it is amazing what you can do with these devices. You can literally build hardware accelerators, meet hard real-time deadlines in silicon, make changes to the FPGA logic in the field with…
Software Bill of Material (SBOM) for Medical Devices
Software Bill of Material (SBOM) for Medical Devices Modern devices are becoming increasingly more complex. Higher user expectations for product features and connectivity have developers looking to include third-party code instead of creating functionality from scratch. Some of these third-party libraries are fairly large and complex. Having third party origins, you’re likely to find code…
3 Steps to Reading New Code
Approaching Code For The First Time Whether you are approaching a code base for the first time or you are doing a code review for another developer, reading code may be like reading another “language”. In school, you get extensive instruction on how to write code, but rarely hear about how to approach a large…