For many years now, I have been driving a diesel based VW Passat Estate. It has served me very well and been as reliable as I might have hoped given how awful I am with cars. Sadly Gunther was reach…

In the interests of keeping myself "honest" regarding F/LOSS activity, here's a report, sadly it's not very good. Unfortunately, September was a poor month for me in terms of motivation and energy f…

Shockingly enough, my focus started out on Gitano once more. We managed a 1.1 release of Gitano during the Debian conference's "camp" which occurs in the week before the conference. This was a joint…

In this, our next exciting installment of STM32 and Rust for USB device drivers, we're going to look at what the STM32 calls the 'packet memory area'. If you've been reading along with the course, inc…

In order to proceed further on our USB/STM32 oddessy, we need to start to build a USB descriptor set for our first prototype piece of code. For this piece, we're going to put together a USB device wh…

I have been working with STM32 chips on-and-off for at least eight, possibly closer to nine years. About as long as ST have been touting them around. I love the STM32, and have done much with them i…

Previously we talked about all the different kinds of descriptors which USB devices use to communicate their capability. This is important stuff because to write any useful USB device firmware we nee…

I have been spending time with Jorge Aparicio's RTFM for Cortex M3 framework for writing Rust to target Cortex-M3 devices from Arm (and particularly the STM32F103 from ST Microelectronics). Jorge's wo…

Today marks the release of Gitano 1.1. Richard(s) and I have spent quite a lot of time and effort on this release, and there's plenty of good stuff in it. We also released new versions of Lace, Supp…