Slackbot: Rebus Leaderboard
Virtual team building is tough. If the event is too long, people may find it a chore to join. Too infrequent, and people may not participate at all. So how […]
Labs
ASIC Behavioral Simulation and Synthesis
In today’s lab experiment I revisit the topic of application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) with Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). These high-speed and flexible computing fabrics allow for processing in which […]
Pigweed Labday
Pigweed is a mix of libraries and build system for embedded development. The thing that initially sold me on wanting to try it was automatically running tests on embedded devices. […]
BluetoothⓇ LE Modulation Characteristics: Making Waves
It’s often entertaining to browse the sprawling Bluetooth Core Specification document, published by the Bluetooth SIG because, while complex, it is well written and provides insight to why things are […]
Unit Test Failure
As we celebrate quick, loud failure at Tome, with a physical “Fail Brick” that’s passed around the office, I thought it would be appropriate to start 2021 with a brief […]
Building speakers
A few weeks ago, I collaborated with some co-workers to build 12 Balanced Mode Radiator speakers. We chose BMR speakers as they have a wide dispersion pattern without the artifacts […]
Improving the Vue workflow
On my latest project here at Tome, I have been learning the ropes of the amazing Vue framework. It’s been a joy to learn and work with. But like all […]
Voice Commands with Snowboy
For my Lab Day project, I worked on implementing speech recognition in a fully offline mode. This would detect a wakeword followed by a limited set of words for which […]
Multi-platform applications with Kivy
In an attempt to create a simple application to run across multiple platforms with minimum coding effort, I ended up finding the Kivy framework. Kivy is open source Python library […]
Moving Picture using Fritz AI Human Pose Estimation on iOS
My son wanted me to make him a Harry Potter-like ‘talking portrait’ of myself for lab day. I had a few ideas on this and kicked it off at first […]