This is part three of a series on display consistency in embedded systems. The first two parts were technical. This one is about why the technical parts worked. The picture: ATtiny85 thermometer. Neural network inference. QUAD7SHIFT display. Built from datasheets. He had datasheets. No Stack Overflow. No libraries to install. No AI to generate boilerplate. No tutorials that abstracted away the in
Introduction It’s a wonderful time to be a developer with rich tools, documentation, and artificial intelligence. Still, at least for now and the foreseeable future, developers must learn to write code, as artificial intelligence tools are not perfect and may produce code that is difficult to integrate into an existing code base. For developers just starting out, they need to learn the basics, t