If you have some experience with C programming and you have had the opportunity to look at some library code then you must have seen something like this The above construct can be called as a macro function or a smart macro. If this code is executed we would get the same result as if …
If you look up “Tips to comment code” in google you will find 2 types of answers with 2 different philosophies The first type of answer will say don’t use comments as it makes the entire source code look dirty and cluttered and the right way to write source code is to just make it …
Arduino is a lovely little ecosystem where most of us have started our electronics journey. I still remember the moment I got my first LED blinking program working! Since then we have done several projects using Arduino. Some of those we by following some online tutorials while others were produced out of our own ideas …
This article contains some affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Everybody in the inventor’s world has played with the Raspberry pi board at one point or another. But not everyone is aware of these cool alternatives available in the market. In this post, I am have listed 14 alternatives to …
We hear a lot of these “wares” terms all the time, some are hard, some are soft, some are firm and some are in the middle. But why some many types of wares? How do they all fit in? Let’s learn more about them in this article. Let’s start with the familiar term hardware. Hardware …
I am working as an Embedded Engineer in Europe. In this article, I am writing the results of the research I did about embedded engineering jobs and salaries in various countries in Europe. Instead of giving you a misleading gross salary number, I have calculated the taxes and living expenses and I have given you …
If you have just mastered this SPI interface, then looking at Dual and Quad SPI can be overwhelming. I had to read several pdfs to wrap my mind around this concept. In this article, I am presenting all the useful and interesting facts on Quad-SPI that I have learned through my research. What is Quad-SPI? …
I remember the time when I first heard the term Profiling, I could barely write source code without googling every 10 minutes at that time and when I heard about profiling, I couldn’t help but tell myself that I will never be able to master programming! Then after a few years I became very comfortable …
When I started out with a goal to become an embedded developer, I had no clue where to even begin as embedded systems cover a wide variety of fields including electronics, software engineering, microcontroller programming, PCB design, networking, chip design, etc., Due to a big knowledge base needed, entering this particular engineering field can seem …
If you are a beginner, the first time you download the datasheet of the microcontroller you are using, you will be given a 1000 to 2000 page document, which will make you feel uncomfortable, to say the least. I have been through the same experience and in this post, I am going to help you …
