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Fixing backlash in Dahlgren System 300z engraver spindle

October 26, 2020

The spindle in the engraver had about 1/8" of axial play. Here's a short post on the teardown and how it was fixed.

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GDB Cannot access memory when debugging an STM32

September 30, 2020


While attempting to implement SPI in zig on an STM32G4 I got the error "Cannot access memory at address 0x40013000".

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V-Carving text with DeclaraCAD

August 23, 2020


My wife wanted me to make a sign on the engraver... so I got "v-carve" toolpaths working in DeclaraCAD.

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Attaching to a python app deployed using Dokku with gdb

August 07, 2020


Some notes on how to debug a python app deployed to a (development) server using dokku.

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How to get code coverage using zig and kcov

May 15, 2020


Here's a short post on how to get code coverage with zig using codecov on travis CI.

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Using zig and the STM32H7 to drive stepper motors

May 09, 2020


Finally got stepper motors working with the STM32H7 and DRV8825 using ziglang!

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Find where C/C++ headers are in Linux

April 17, 2020


Here's a tip on how to find the correct path for setting the include directory.

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Testing a Zig project with Travis-CI

April 01, 2020


It's really easy to test a Zig project with travis-ci.

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Fix Virtualbox Guru Meditation Error

March 31, 2020


I was recently getting "Guru Meditation" errors with Virtualbox errors when attempting to start a VM...

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Conda interfering with system libraries

January 29, 2020


Every now and then I get very strange errors saying libraries are not found when they are when attempting to build a project.

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