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Small Boards for the Swiss-Precision Timer

Posted on 2019-12-12— Projects

I’m building a small utility called the Swiss-Precision Timer and just received prototype 37x18mm two-layer boards from PCBWay. They’re populated with tiny SMD parts I plan to reflow using a stencil. The project is still a prototype — I’ll share assembly notes and updates once I solder the first version. Please read on.

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Event-based Firmware (Part 1/2)

Posted on 2019-07-05— C++, Improve your Code, Learn

I walk through a practical, minimal event-based approach to firmware using Arduino examples. Step by step I refactor blink sketches into modular events, introduce a millisecond timer, prevent skipped events, and encapsulate logic into classes and modules. Read on to follow the examples and apply them to your projects.

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