about us

My name is Nick, a Mechanical Engineer whose love for programming started late. My bachelor thesis involved signal post-processing for EMI filtering from electric motors used in the experimental setup. I was lucky enough to have a diverse curriculum and among them were basic IoT device building on a simulator, a punching tool on a lathe with knurling now gifted to a friend and other interesting stuff. My thesis supervisor, whom I have to kindly ask for naming him here, created the turning point and let me explore the early stages of programming helping a lot to untangle the thread of implementing signal processing with the help of other libraries where python wasn’t fast enough (hey scipy, it’s been a while).

Then it was about time to transfer all this knowledge to more constrained environments and high level abstractions got in the way due to lack of flash and ram on powerful mcu’s which are getting overlooked. A cortex-m0+ can host a website so this is not some block diagrams on a infinitely digital board but hardware capable of crunching numbers. STMicroelectronics was kind enough to stash a nice timer peripheral in stm32g071xx’s so these where found to suite the needs of the project among other reasons without skyrocketing the price for the mcu’s.

static inline bool read_gpio(struct gpio *g){
    return (pin->port_id->IDR & (1U << pin->id) ? 1U : 0);
}
int main(void){
    /* there is a struct gpio my_beautiful_pin_struct somewhere declared and initialized here before this call */
    uint32_t some = read_gpio(&my_beautiful_pin_struct);
    return 0;
}