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I am learning STM32 development and almost all the information available on it is trapped in webinar length videos.
I strongly suspect that the reason for this is the bloody CubeMX software which requires you to use combo boxes, and tree views, and other nonsense to set up the initial code for the project.
There is a project file it creates that has these settings, but the format opaque like old school visual basic forms.
People don't think.
When you make software that is fundamentally not declarative it means its data is not serializable. Even if you make it declarative but only you know the format, then you're forcing people to do it visually, which means YOU CANNOT EASILY WRITE INSTRUCTIONS on how to use it.
Microsoft finally figured it out with Visual Studio .NET.
I wish the CubeMX tool would work the same way. 
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Be glad you don't do SSIS.
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Ask chatGBT. It's crazy what he/she/them/thar/it knows.
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Oooh thank you. This is actually just what i need at the moment.
I'm trying to make a nucleo F767ZI board talk 8-bit i8080 parallel to an ILI9488 controller.
I gleaned enough from TFT_eSPI (by Bodmer) to understand the basic concepts, but not quite enough to derive my own outside the Arduino framework, which is the goal.
That's how I'm challenging myself to get going in this arena.
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I learn a new platform by taking one section at a time and learning all I can about it then going on to another section.
This time I documented my experience.
After those 2 articles I got into the DMA and started to write an article but went on vacation so didn't have time to finish it.
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine for those I can not!
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You mean scanning the hardware reference manuals? 
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https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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I hat reference manuals, they are so hard for me to understand and contain so little information.
Whoever writes them ought to be fired.
I bought several different devices and the programmers for them. The DMA article I'm working on uses the NUCLEO- F722ZE.
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine for those I can not!
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So what do you use to learn with? Now you've got me curious. I've been trying to wrap my head around all this and the only significant material i can find is in long youtube videos which somehow still manage to be cryptic.
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https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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The problem finding any material on the STM32 using register level programming, most everyone uses CubeMX in there articles and videos.
So I use a variety of methods to learn;
1) This guy is pretty good but god is he boring...#1. Intro to STM32F4 Register Based Programming || Clock Setup || LED Blinking || NO HAL - YouTube[^]
2) Read the various manuals and fill in the blanks
3) Just muddle through it and spend hours figuring it out
I have a learning disability so it's hard for me to grasp things by reading, I'm a hands on guy!
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine for those I can not!
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Latest Article: Simon Says, A Child's Game
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Mike Hankey wrote: it's hard for me to grasp things by reading, I'm a hands on guy!
I'm very much the same way. I tell people that the way I learn best is to challenge myself to do something I can't do until finally, I can. It's how I learned C++. It's how I learned programming.
I do get a lot of mileage out of reading the *right* code though. Sometimes that's just a nice, direct way to present a solution. 
Thanks for pointing me to Mr. Boring. I'll give him a shot.
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https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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He sounds like one of the old fashioned I speak your weight machine voices
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Brain Memory confusion NEW profile photo
Don't know why I started memorizing profile pics
to see who was responding
Have often wondered how we select profile badges ?
Real Men wear Yellow T Sh*t's
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I hated the other pic and I tried another, newer pic but it wouldn't accept it for some reason.
That and I like to keep people on their toes. 
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine for those I can not!
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - An updated version available! JaxCoder.com
Latest Article: Simon Says, A Child's Game
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I'm going to be doing an online user group meeting for a couple of UK .NET focused user groups in November.
My intention will be a 90 minute session taking you from very first steps through to getting some simple circuits running on an ESP32 using the .NET Nano framework and C# language.
Dunno if it will be of any use to you, and yes I am aiming for a 90 min (ish) session, but probably in 2 parts.
I'll most likely announce it first on my twitter stream @shawty_ds once the dates are finalised, and have been discussing it in public with those involved for the past week or so now.
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I'm actually moving away from the ESP32 and over to STM32 for my commercial stuff.
The ESP32 has got too many issues to be of use for me professionally going forward. We've had no end of grief with CDC serial under the Arduino framework when we made the mistake of trying to use that on our control boards, and the ESP-IDF comes with a number of caveats.
As it is, I've about exhausted the possibilities with it.
Thanks though.
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https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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I've not tried it personally, but .NET Nano framework I have been told, also runs on the STM32
I'm using ESP32 in my demo as that's what I have in my collection of boards, I don't currently posses an STM32, everything I show however, I've been told should work on the STM32.
The session is still in planning at the moment though, won't be until about November when it's aired.
Cheers
Shawty
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Ooof, garbage collection on kilobytes of RAM. Personally, not a fan, but then I'm sort of a C and C++ purist, who is still sideeying rust, so don't mind me over here.
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https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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Yea I hear you there, C/C++ and recently rust are where I am.
That said, you might be surprised at how efficient the GC actually is
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It's efficient for *some* things.
I used to use it in ISAPI application because they're basically glorified string manipulation engines. String based heap frag is a bear in an environment like that, so I used Boehm Collector to garbage collect my strings and containers. My apps were fast, and stayed fast under load. That was well before ASP.NET.
It's not efficient for general use, compared to C++/RAII without the STL, which is how I recommend coding in IoT with C++.
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Yikes... ISAPI!! still gives me nightmares that does, as does COM, COM+ and DCOM.
.NET Nano is fairly new, nothing to do with MS either (even though they heavily sponsor it etc) it's based very much on the newer core modern .NET stack, and it's Jose Simone and his team that are behind it (Used to be part of that Meadow IoT platform I think)
Not trying to persuade you otherwise here by the way I've long been a supporter of C/C++ on restrained devices like that, started years ago before the IoT craze as it is now with the likes of the PICMicro.
I just find it quite interesting that C#, a language I quite often get asked to do large enterprise LOB apps in, can run on something like the ESP32, and am frequently surprised by just how well it performs.
I compared it to running modern .NET full/core on an rPI and Nano on an ESP32 kicked it's backside!
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FYI, I agree on the issues with opaque file formats. They are generally impossible to use with any kind of change control system and hard to use with version control. We lose the ability to do bulk find/replace or just find references across files/objects. We lose the ability to do intelligent risk management and working at scale becomes exceedingly difficult. (How do you merge changes when two developers both change the same definition?)
People correctly assume these systems make beginning programming/developing easier to learn, but often don't understand how they're making large scale, complex programming harder (ever tried to debug 100 pages of ladder logic?)
Note that even declarative programming output as text has its limits. Data is often stored in (unsorted) dictionaries (hash tables) then persisted to a file in an (effectively) random order, this makes identifying significant changes much harder to find (it's particularly bad when some values are recomputed each time, and thus create thousands of lines of meaningless changes wrapping around real changes and making them hard to find).
JSON is often the format of choice for this type of data. I like JSON; however, it has its limits as a programming language. While generally lighter weight than XML it can still be hard to follow for large files and lacks comments (although JSONC and most JSON parsers now support comments, when enabled). Where JSON falls down is in the need to quote everything. That's where I've started to prefer YAML, which I find easier to read and write, mostly because of the reduced quoting requirements and simplified syntax. That's especially true for embedded scripting which can be done in YAML just by indenting (as opposed to JSON which requires each line of script be quoted and special characters have to be escaped). [I particularly became a YAML fan once I realized it's a superset of JSON, so I can take my existing JSON data structures, drop them into a YAML file and it just works, and I don't have to maintain both a JSON and YAML parser).
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Hi All,
There was a Win 11 update which took an age on my home set up. It appears to have broken the old version of office I had (XP), I know it's out of date, I know really I do, But I didn't have a need to update or change it.
My Mum (bless her!) could use it. I did try to update to 2007, but found it a show stopper and my Mum was left clueless. So I am now forced to update to Office 365 to type a letter. Other PC's such as the Win 10 box I have are not affected but not plugged into the Laser Printer. A two minute job becomes a Saga...
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In other news, dog bites man.
What do you expect from a company that has fired all of its bug finders?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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They don't need to hire bug finders, they have their customers to do all that. Oh, and they don't have bugs since they adopted that wonderful TDD methodology. 
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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