RE: ARMP - (Nearly) Complete Schematics

shabaz — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 14:38:08 GMT

Hi Michael,

Sorry for the delay responding, I've been looking through the schematics, and will hopefully have some feedback soon. I had written some notes but misplaced them : (

Regarding software, I've installed the STM IDE, and was happy to see that the desired elements of C++ are supported (just classes and a few bits of C++ coding preferences are all I care about mainly, and the compiler shouldn't bloat that). I've set up a development folder where I can compile and test quickly locally (i.e. x86 target) to reduce development cycle time since I don't need to build against the real target each time. And I have started work on a generic display system (kind of similar to how Linux does it, but micro-sized) where it doesn't care what is rendered to the screen, but it will manage areas and layering. It's efficient, it doesn't ever store the entire display content. This way people have complete freedom on UI and content style to enhance the display to be as basic or as pretty as desired, and it's separated from the guts which will manage what is displayed and send the content to the display. I'll share it once it is fleshed out a bit. It should work with any display or microcontroller (provided C++ is supported), so it can be reused in future for other projects too.

I didn't initially plan to work on the display portion first, but since it ties in with event handling for user input and measurement events, it will help me construct the remainder of it too if I mentally have to think about the display aspects.

RE: ARMP - (Nearly) Complete Schematics

kltm — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 18:54:18 GMT

Loops really interesting, I’ve been doing quite a bit of work on the case layout.