The Case of the Random Lockup
We had a bug that just wouldn’t go away. Sometimes it would show up quickly, sometimes it would show up after the code had been running for a few days… but it would show up. [...]
A Valentine Example for Blinking Lights
For Valentine’s Day my son needed to make a “mailbox” for his kindergarten class. He & his mother made a rocket out of an old oat container. Since this was a family project, [...]
Accidental Double Interrupts on a Timer
I had a program where I was using a timer and an ISR to flip a bit on a TI MSP430. Well, the bit would only filp for a few milliseconds and then revert back to its prior value. As it turns out, [...]