New builds of python for android using enaml-native were pushed out this week! They're compiled with the latest Android NDK r20 and work on Android Pie v9 (api 29). Using gradle 5.1 and gradle build tools 3.4.2!

Github recently added a new "Used by" metric which attempts to find projects that use the given repo. I really find this metric useful (along with actual download stats of course). But it does raise some interesting questions...

Since it took quite a bit of searching here's a short post on using Open Chip Debugging with KDevelop and mbed-os on the STM32H7. I'm using the NUCLEO-H743ZI2 dev board which uses st-link v3.

In order to create reproducable cuts / engravings the controller must be able to properly "zero" all axis' to a known state before starting a job.

We just launched a forum for Inkcut at inkcut.org. The forum is dedicated to Inkcut and various vinyl cutter and plotter enthusiasts, go check it out!

You can easily debug any python app by adding two lines of code that simply adds a "breakpoint" that embeds the IPython interpreter.

This blog is powered by enaml-web and Jupyterlab as an admin backend. Jupyterlab happens to be great for doing everything, including writing and previewing markdown as well as testing any code you have.

Unfortunately the spindle on my old Dahlgren System 300z engraver didn't work when I got it, this how I fixed it.

If you don't want to use the Arduino IDE to build an Arduino .ino file you can use the arduino-builder to integrate with a better IDE like IDEA, Eclipse, KDevelop, etc...