random things about hardware and software
Every software engineering team seems to have a core set of people who do a little bit more than what they are assigned to do. The little bit doesn t seem much when looked at in isolation, but a few people doing it consistently over time is what creates the magic. They often end up working [ ] The post Amplifiers appeared first on iCircuit .
2025 has been a very busy year for me — I moved to Atlan from Freshworks, welcomed a new addition to our little family, and didn’t write much on this blog. I was also under the impression that I hadn’t read much, but when I reviewed the year, I realized I did manage to read [ ] The post Book Recommendations – 2025 appeared first on iCircuit .
Wio terminal is a smart development platform based on ATSAMD51 controller. It has a nice 320 240 LCD screen along with WiFi support provided by RTL8720DN wireless chip. In this post we will how to develop a simple digital clock. ATSAMD51 has a feature rich 32-bit RTC (Real Time Counter), we can t exclusively depend on the RTC as [ ] The post Digital Clock with Wio Terminal appeared first on…
TFT_eSPI accepts custom fonts in the format of Adafruit GFX format. On the web, there are several fonts available in TrueType font format. Before we can use them with TFT_eSPI we need to convert the TTF format GFX format. There are several online tools available for this, I tried truetype2gfx by Rop Gonggrijp and tested [ ] The post Adding custom fonts to TFT_eSPI appeared first on iCircuit .
Podman offers an alternative to docker for managing containers and images. Podman desktop can be used in places of Docker desktop. On windows, podman works by creating a machine (guest VM) backed by WSLv2 (windows subsystem for Linux) or it can also use the Windows Hyper-V. In this post we will see how to install [ ] The post Installing Podman on Windows appeared first on iCircuit .
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Story of a young doctor and how he faced cancer. I really liked this book. It gives perspective on how hard it is to make decisions when other people s lives are involved. One statement that keeps coming back to my mind is when you are dealing with people s [ ] The post Book Recommendations 2024 appeared first on iCircuit .
Raspberry Pi Pico is a low cost 32 bit ARM Development board from Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi Pico has a RP2040 microcontroller and 2 MB flash. There is another version of this board called Pico W, which supports both WiFi and BLE. In this post we will how to set up development environment for [ ] The post Getting started with Raspberry Pi Pico MicroPython and C SDK appeared first on iCircuit .
I recently completed 10 years in tech industry. There are so many people that helped me grow as a person and engineer. I heard many horror stories about bad teams and not so good managers. People warned me about managers favouritism. Surprisingly in 10 years I never worked with manager who isn t fair and kind [ ] The post 10 years !! appeared first on iCircuit .
Raspberry pi released Pico 2 board based on the new RP2350 dual core microcontroller. The board similar to the original Pico board, but with the new RP2350 controller. The new RP2350 has two ARM Cortex-M33 cores and two Hazard3 RISC-V cores, user can choose between these two architectures. In this post will see how to [ ] The post Arduino : Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Pico 2 appeared first…
I recently got my hands on the the newly released Raspberry pi pico 2 board. The board is powered by ARM Cortex-33 based RP2350 microcontroller. As with any new microcontroller, the first question that comes to mind is how does it stack against the existing controllers offerings in the market. Benchmarking allows us to compare [ ] The post Benchmarking Raspberry Pi Pico 2 appeared first on…