C Programming, Lisp for Microcontrollers, Qt, ARM Cortex-M, FPGA

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Programming Microcontrollers

• Absolute time interrupts, mailbox and memory-pool in ChibiOS
  
• Scrolling text on an 8x8 LED matrix using STM32 and ChibiOs
  
• STM32 and Seven-segment display with ChibiOs
  
• Using the DAC on stm32 and ChibiOS
  
• Using ADC on stm32 and ChibiOS
  
• ChibiOs and Neato Lidar on STM32
  

ARM Cortex-M Assembler and Machinecode

• Learning Cortex-M assembler - session4 - Configuring the clock for 168MHz
  
• Learning Cortex-M assembler - session3 - loops, arrays and functions
  
• Learning Cortex-M assembler - session2 - Buttons and LEDs
  
• Learning Cortex-M assembler - session1 - Hardfault on reset and some GPIO
  
• Learning Cortex-M assembler - session0 - The Tools
  
• Automated testing against the STM32F4-Discovery
  

Yet another lisp for microcontrollers

• Defunctionalizing a Continuation-Passing Style Evaluator
  
• Towards a bytecode compiler for lispBM
  
• Evaluation of expressions using a register machine (Edited june 23 2020: BugFix!)
  
• An attempt to get a better grip on the memory usage
  
• Spawn and Wait: Concurrency in lispBM part 2
  
• Concurrency in lispBM part 1
  
• Quasiquotation in lispBM (Edited June 10 2020: BugFix)
  
• Boolean operators with short-circuit behavior
  
• Turning Recursion into Iteration using an Explicit Stack
  
• Implementation of a lispBM REPL for the ESP32 MCU
  
• Implementing a lispBM REPL in Zephyr OS
  
• Compression and parsing of compressed source code
  
• Garbage collection in lispBM
  
• Implementing a lispBM REPL in ChibiOs
  
• Fundamental operations and extensions in lispBM
  
• Parsing of lispBM expressions
  
• A quick look at boxed values in lispBM
  
• More in-depth walkthrough of the lispBM evaluation function
  
• Another lisp for microcontrollers (lispBM)
  

Qt Programming

• Video answer to question about QCustomPlot. The question was about how to actually create the plot area for QCustomPlot to draw into.
• Using FFTW3 on the waveform from the Audio Input
  
• Audio input and waveform plotting using Qt
  
• Extending the Serial GUI with data collection
  
• Qt GUI for Serial Interfacing with Development Board
  
• Loading an image and displaying in a QGraphicsView
  

FPGA programming

• Zynqberry VGA output
  
• Blinky for Zynq in VHDL this time
  
• Part 2: VGA output from the FPGA (Nexys A7 - Virtex 7)
  
• VGA output from the FPGA (Nexys A7 - virtex 7)
  
• Attempting to make a memory in VHDL
  
• Behavioral simulation in vivado
  
• Getting started with the Nexys A7 and Vivado
  
• Getting started tutorial for OpenCL on Xilinx Zynq (2020 version)
  
• Blink a LED using the ZynqBerry (2017)
• Getting started guide: OpenCL on the Zynq (2016)

Interesting Links

Computer science: Programming languages

• MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986
• uLisp (a much more mature microcontroller lisp)
• The blog of Göran Weinholt.
• Loko Scheme - An amazingly cool project by Göran Weinholt.
• Dmitry Frank - Let's Run Lisp on a Microcontroller
• Tutorial describing MinCaml
• Lisperator PL tutorial
• Erik Holk's blog
• Abhiroop Sarkar's blog
• Buddhika Chamith's blog
• Michael Nielsen - Lisp as the maxwell's equations of software

Embedded and hardware

• Project IceStorm (FPGA bitstream format documenting)
• YOSYS - Yosys Open SYnthesis Suite
• GRISP - Erlang and IoT
• VESC-Project (Open source BLDC motor-controller)
• Mike Spivey: Bare metal microbit
• Knitronics labs
• Info for people who want to get into FPGAs NOW!
• Learn about embedded systems at swedishembedded.com
• Implementation of the C64 on a Zybo, zynq based FPGA board.

Art

• Pixilady art