Blog Archive: February 2025
Scheme + Bogl + SDL = simple, quick embedded UI
On October 27th, 2006 In Software
I have been struggling with a way to make a simple user userface for an embedded system with a 640x480 LCD
but no keyboard or mouse. The machine only has 64mb of ram and wants to run largely out of ram. This eliminates
things like X windows, TK, etc... And, I wanted to be able to hack up experiments quickly.
I originally tried Java, but it
Warm Start
On October 21st, 2006 In Software
It's important to note up front that I don't know what I am talking
about. At least when it comes to Lisp. There are some things I on
which I can speak authoritatively, but this isn't one of them.
Having said that, I am a obsessed with lisp and things lisp. It began
when I read first saw some adventure source code in
Never Say Die... (reviving a Linksys WRT54GS)
On October 21st, 2006 In Hardware
A while back I did a project using the Linksys wireless routers. Well,
more truthfully an associate did all the work, I just managed the project.
Anyway, my associate, being rusty with hardware at that point managed to "brick"
one of the units. It was toasted and would not respond to the simple
recovery proceedure. (aside: I do this all the