How will quantum computers impact cryptography?
2016-05-01 21:32 by Ian
This post is an effort to short-circuit some FUD regarding the susceptibility of different classes of cryptographic algorithms to attacks made possible by quantum computers.
Open ports are not a security hole
2015-11-23 22:19 by Ian
What follows is an email I wrote for our sales department, which had to regularly field questions surrounding these issues when our VoIP product came up. The scary thing is that the misconception is most prevalent in the minds of people who should know better (engineers and sysadmins). So here is the most unpopular position you can possibly take in a group of network admins. Maybe it will help someone else dismantle some technical hear-say.
Excursion to the bare-metal: ARM Cortex vs MIPS
2015-11-18 12:16 by Ian
One of the projects I did for Microchip was a feasibility study of porting the ARM Cortex instruction set to comparable routines for MIPS. The ultimate goal for the chipKIT team is/was to port the Teensy3 audio library to their line of PIC32 dev boards. What follows is my report, along with some elaborations for readers who want the knowledge, but aren't yet level 60 mages.
Populated r1 PCBs have arrived
2015-10-25 01:02 by Ian
October has been a busy month for hardware...
C++ Style choices (notes)
2015-06-20 22:20 by Ian
This post is aimed at programmers-in-general, and covers some general stylistic perspectives.
Data structures (Priority queues)
2015-06-20 21:57 by Ian
This will be an examination of one of the two key data structures in ManuvrOS: The Priority Queue.
255mph intro to C++ Templates
2015-06-20 21:37 by Ian
When writing programs (no matter the language [human or otherwise]), you will repeat yourself. Unavoidable. Templates are a C++ feature that allow us to write the form of the code once, and rely on the compiler to replicate it for each unique type we use with it.
First r1 renders
2015-06-15 00:41 by Ian
These renders are of a left-handed unit, but very careful attention was given to design things to be achiral down to the last possible level.
Murum Lux: IPLogika iPack P401 Modules
2015-05-20 02:30 by Ian
This is a brief recount of my experience using the iPack P401 Module.
Arduino library for the MGC3130
2015-05-13 06:38 by Ian
This post will cover the theory-of-operation of a driver for Microchip's weird and wonderful MGC3130 e-field gesture sensor. I will be using Microchip's Hillstar dev kit for the MGC3130, a chipKIT Fubarino Mini, and MPIDE. But the library ought to work with any other Arduino-esque microcontroller provided it has Wire.h.