Introduction There are multiple strategies for working with git and GitHub and each has it’s own set of strengths and weaknesses. What strategy you choose will depend upon your own specific circumstances and needs. The processes shown in this cheat…
Problem Within a C++ project created by the Pico extension for VS Code, IntelliSense was not finding uint16_t (and some other types) even though the correct header (either <cstdint> or <stdint.h>) was included, and the compiler actually compiled the code…
Objective While building a complex Raspberry Pi Pico robotics project, I wanted to be able to choose whether to build my model as normal, or to build a set of unit tests. This was particularly important for me because there…
Docker is a container management system that enables the sand-boxing and grouping together of applications which have dependencies on (or interact with) each other. Docker calls these groupings “Stacks” which allow applications to be deployed and controlled as a single…
This article makes the following assumptions: This will be accomplished in three steps: Step 1 – Create empty target repo on GitHub First of all sign in to your GitHub account using a web browser. Next select “Home” from the…
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system optimised for use with text based files. It is fast and efficient because it doesn’t work by keeping extra copies of files, but just the changes between versions and…
KiCad is an “Electronic Design Automation” application, or “EDA”. It is really a suite of design applications that integrate very tightly with each other to provide a “Computer Aided Design” environment suitable for designing “Printed Circuit Boards”, or “PCB’s” for…
Starting in March 2021 the Google Chrome sync service can no longer be accessed by Chromium Browser builds. There is, however, a little known work around that was still working at the time of this blog in February 2024.
Onshape’s FeatureScript setParameter() method failing to set the intended parameter value. The problem is usually due to the target parameter having already being manually set. Manual settings are applied after all features have been executed and therefor overrides programmatic updates.
The Elegoo Nano V3 has three important differences from the genuine Arduino Nano product: These differences are mostly transparent, but do mean that installation in the IDE and physical mounting are different.