Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

As a member of the Areabot association, I participated to the 2006 French robotics competition last week. We had to develop specific software for our robot, driven by two Shix boards containing each one a SH7750R processor at 240MHz running Linux and a Stratix EP1S25 FPGA.
We decided to use Mercurial from the beginning for our […]

For the 2006 French robotics cup, I wrote two utility packages for GNAT, the GNU Ada compiler:

areadline: access the readline library from Ada;
aforth: embeddable Forth interpreter written in Ada (uses the areadline library).

I haven’t put a license file in them yet, but you can get them under the GNU General Public License version 2.

As a low-level software guy, I often have to work with electrical engineers to build custom hardware and software systems. I am constantly amazed by the tricks necessary to make the hardware part work and the experience needed to build reliable electrical components. I decided to apply the same techniques to my software.
First of all, […]

Comme je l’avais expliqué dans Asterisk - build your own PBX, la prise téléphonique de ma Freebox était connectée à mon PC par une interface analogique de type FXO. Sur le PC, qui tourne sous GNU/Linux, l’autocommutateur libre Asterisk gère mes communications et mes services. Tout fonctionnait correctement, même si la reconnaissance du raccroché du […]