Fred's firmware development diary

[Fred]

Got to bed after 5am last night, got up 8am, went shopping, got back 12:15, ate something, started working at 1, kept going until 1230, got a lot done, but not quite enough. Project secret/unlucky should get unlucky/lucky (both!) tomorrow, with some luck and lots of work. Cross your fingers for me. It's about time that I moved that thread to somewhere where it can be read...

[Fred]

I'm taking a few minutes out of my busy day to link this thread and this video:

viewtopic.php?p=29646#p29646

http://youtu.be/BcQ5ILok9PI

Kiwi style! IE, no shoes :-)

Presto's 4AGE has been getting some upgrades! Sweet video. Limiter is set at 5k stock. He needs to raise it to 7500, tune it, and do another vid :-)

Fred.

[Fred]

I tried, but I failed. I know why. I may retry tomorrow. I don't know yet. I have a few other things to do tomorrow.

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Fred.

[Fred]

No retries, yet. Perhaps tomorrow.

Yesterday and today I got the bulk of a Java comms library written, including a demo application that can open and parse a file, open and tail a file, or open and read a device with a FreeEMS attached. Same code in all instances. I need to add unit tests and docs and clean it up a bit, maybe split the demo app out, etc.

Once that's released I can include it in OLV and rip out a bunch of hacky fragile code that's currently in there. For example right now it only handles some cases for header combos, not all. Not good enough, really.

Fred.

[Fred]

No, not today, either, BUT, OLV is running using the lib as of this afternoon, which is cool! The bin decoder code is MUCH cleaner now, it was a mess before, now it's just untidy and bloated. Further changes to come, but in terms of lib use, it's good enough as is for now.

(17:46:28) Fred: src/main/java/org/diyefi/openlogviewer/decoder/FreeEMSBin.java | 617 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------------------------------------------------
(17:46:28) Fred: 1 file changed, 174 insertions(+), 443 deletions(-)
(18:11:27) Fred: Loaded 183071 records in 6953 millis!

^ same load performance as before. I'll be improving that a little, hopefully, but if not, no biggy.

Fred.

[Fred]

If you're testing EMStudio or FreeEMS-Loader please refer to this thread and bitch to issue tracker/forum/irc/authors if stuff isn't working normally and reliably on your OS:

viewtopic.php?f=41&t=1922

Fred.

[Fred]

I've started working on another library that I started a year ago tonight. I have it mostly working. Tomorrow I'll likely get it to a usable state, and, well, use it :-)

Fred.

[Fred]

Library is functional, but not yet complete! I'm refining it further too. Should be pretty nice to use once done.

This song is dedicated to... I can't say... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i8DukLAh3k

However there are many possible meanings that suit it, right now. So my ambiguity is safe! :-)

Fred.

[Fred]

Very nearly complete tonight! It's usable to burn firmware, though I've not yet tried to do that, just smaller tests. 2am = bed time.

[Fred]

Complete and reliable and tested tonight. It can write and read and so on, no stress. I even hacked in some S19 writing, but it's slightly broken right now.

Bed! Have to go to see a man about a dog tomorrow :-o

Fred.