Fred's firmware development diary

[Fred]

Just a note to let you know that engine 17 ran yesterday. I can't link you to the thread because it doesn't exist. That should be a sufficiently good clue as to who/what it is. If he/she posts the video in any other threads, I'll delete the post as motivation to post the proper thread in the proper section.

[Fred]

Of course, you guessed it, Sean finally got his R1 rail running with full FreeEMS fueling, great work, mate! :-) viewtopic.php?f=55&t=2013

Busy weekend of RavAGEing, ravaging and writing. I achieved both of my two goals for the weekend, and am pretty satisfied with progress.

Lots more to get done this coming week, really looking forward to making some solid progress in a number of areas :-)

Fred.

[Fred]

And just like that, number 18! Congrats HotCat! viewtopic.php?f=55&t=2015

[Fred]

Now on youtube! http://youtu.be/JNwTxi5jaNQ

Note, this is the new FreeEMS channel, subscribe if you want email updates! The old diyefi.org channel will be used for other diy efi things and special occasion FreeEMS events, only!

[Fred]

Rough prioritisation and public TODO of key things on my plate: viewtopic.php?f=54&t=2023

[Fred]

The last two days were more or less a write off, sadly. I had drinks with a friend on Friday and a party on Saturday, and lots of love in between, and lots of sleeping to recover from both love and party/drinks. Other than that, took care of some chores here. Convinced Andy to do me a schem for the amp project and helped him with a little something in return. And steady hardware progress for FreeEMS too. Not toooooooo bad I guess, but a bit disappointing as I had several things that I should have done, and failed outright on half of them, only making some progress on the other half. Señor cebolla has made some great progress on the eclipse thing, though, which is good

I'm going to try to be more focussed this week and achieve something significant every day.

Fred.

[Fred]

Did some interesting hacking on a side-project last night, but no luck in that area, unfortunately. Looking forward to helping the man with the plan make some progress over the coming weeks, though.

Also been doing some other interesting work on another side project, as have a couple of others on the forum. I'll have news from that before the 8th of July, I promise. Bad or good, there will be news :-) Until then, it's secret, so as to be a cool surprise for everyone :-)

I also had a play around with the unit testing stuff, and hopefully will have a skype call with Eric this weekend to make some more progress on that.

And yet another side-project made some headway, and will continue to over the coming weeks and months. More news on that once it's worthy of being talked about, which isn't yet.

I've been helping Dan with some hw stuff too, which is coming along nicely, great work, Dan! Keep it up, you're a star :-)

I've also been learning some new dev technology for an upcoming project that I've been dreaming of for some time. The time has come and I should have something to show for that research in the medium term, too!

So, overall it was a very very busy and productive week, feels good! :-)

This weekend shall be more documentation stuff and hopefully flesh out the plugin API for OLV, and get a prototype working using it. If I could get that running and happy and pushed up by next weekend, that'd be great, but I can't promise anything on that, it's not a super high priority, yet.

Other than that, I have some overdue household chores to clear up and get out of the way, a couple of BrickRPM units to make for someone, and a minor rework of the BrickRPM design to improve performance at (ridiculously) high voltages.

More news as it comes to hand :-)

Fred.

[Fred]

Lots of little stuff getting done, nothing visible or worth describing, though, cept this:

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2048

I did some non-invasive updates tonight, and cleared out some disk space, more updates and upgrades to come soon.

Fred.

[Fred]

I had a massively productive two days this weekend :-)

• Mounted my heatsink in my amp.
• Updated a bunch of websites.
• Backed up a bunch of websites.
• Removed a handful of dead sites.
• Freed up a bunch of disk space.
• Rotated a HUGE log file (4.5gig).
• Downloaded and archived HUGE log file.
• Resized the disk up by 4 gig.
• Updated about 150 packages.
• Archived 50 old forum database dumps.
• Backed up the forum database.
• Fixed an old issue with my EEE trackpad.
• Freed up a bunch of disk on the EEE.
• Some Ravaging, of the non-Dan type. :-p
• Took the car for a thrash to charge the battery. :-D
• Cleaned kitchen completely like never before. :-p
• Washed/dried a load of washing. :-p
• Changed sheets on bed. :-p

Final results:

• GOOD: Was down to just 500 meg free space, now up to 12 gig free space.
• GOOD: All freeems/diyefi sites are backed up fully to two independent boxes.
• BAD: Still need to backup a few other domain's sites and the overall box config.
• BAD: Still need to migrate some sites to static content from active.
• BAD: Still need to automate database backups properly.
• DONE! MEH: Still need to update 66 packages and install 6 new packages on the server. (was 300+)
• MEH: Still need to fully merge in new apache config and configure sysv-rc which is being held up by IRC and Nexus scripts.
• MEH: Still need to update a few applications on the server.
• MEH: Still need to clear out some database schemas that are not in use.
• MEH: Still need to configure permissions and ownership more intelligently.
• LATER: Pending requirement for more software updates pretty soon.

I want to start working toward a MUCH better web experience for FreeEMS and DIYEFI.org. I'll need your help designing that before I start making changes to implement it.

I plan to do a draft plan soon and will put it out for review once it's available.

2:20am, time for bed. BIG weekend complete! :-)

Fred.

[Fred]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SARbwvhupQ < was watching this earlier tonight, and it reminded me of this thread, among other things. In it they mention another video which I dug up and watched:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSFDm3UYkeE < I SERIOUSLY wish that I'd seen this 5 years ago and watched it twice a day until I knew it by heart. It would have saved me endless hours and health issues and allowed the project to move forward more smoothly and move further forward over all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F-3E8pyjFo < Same thing, reiterated more recently? Remastered? Very similar.

I can think of 10 people off the top of my head her fit the various categories in those vids. I'm one of them. I'll let you guess the rest :-)

Tomorrow I plan to achieve something. I don't know what. But something. Anything.

Fred.