@lupyuen very cool. Somewhat tangential, but Josh Bongard, a researcher (not who did the xenobots) quoted in the article is co-author to a very interesting book, "How the Body Shapes the Way We Think" that I recommend to anyone interested in this kind of thing.
@lupyuen for anyone not familiar with 'Grey goo" aka "Gray goo": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo
@lupyuen uh oh. Grey goo is one step closer... I think van Neumann warned us about this...
World's first Living Robots can now reproduce, scientists say
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html
UniHack: International Hackathon for university and high school students, with a focus on solving civic issues.
"What would you change in #Embedded Programming?"
"Sometimes you gotta fix it yourself" (Android + Flutter)
@lupyuen that's just wild
#NuttX SPI Driver "spi_driver_s" contains the SPI Device "spi_dev_s" ... That we need for testing the SPI Interface! But the SPI Device is private and hidden from apps 🙁
https://github.com/lupyuen/incubator-nuttx/blob/master/drivers/spi/spi_driver.c#L55-L65
"Introduction to FPGA Part 4 - Clocks and Procedural Assignments"
Jack Dorsey steps down as Twitter chief executive
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/29/twitter-chief-executive-jack-dorsey
#NuttX File Struct contains a Private Pointer to the SPI Driver "spi_driver_s"
https://github.com/lupyuen/incubator-nuttx/blob/master/drivers/spi/spi_driver.c#L112-L147
Tracing thru #NuttX Virtual File System ... We see that ioctl() maps the File Descriptor to a File Struct
https://github.com/lupyuen/incubator-nuttx/blob/master/fs/vfs/fs_ioctl.c#L118-L138
"Firefox is the Only Alternative"
https://batsov.com/articles/2021/11/28/firefox-is-the-only-alternative/
#NuttX SPI Interface needs an SPI Device "spi_dev_s" ... How do we get an SPI Device? 🤔
https://github.com/lupyuen/incubator-nuttx/blob/master/arch/risc-v/src/bl602/bl602_spi.c#L932-L967
Crypto-trading Hamster dies
Can our #NuttX App directly call the SPI Interface? Let's find out! 🤔
https://github.com/lupyuen/incubator-nuttx-apps/blob/spi_test/examples/spi_test/spi_test_main.c
Fleet: Lightweight editor by JetBrains
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/11/29/welcome-to-fleet/
@lupyuen Sustainability, LoRa and durian... three of my favorite things! ![]()
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