I’m starting to work on my Pickle programming language, this time in Javascript. After only a few days’ work, I’m surprised I got so much working. Currently I have both the tokenizer and the inheritance system working. The syntax of Pickle is pretty much in place now, and …

Phoo fried my brain.

My first programming language has just gotten way too complicated for me to maintain. I still haven’t found the bug in the shell. And in the process of debugging it, I may have caused more bugs, too. Argh!

It’s compounded by the fact that …

I’ve been working quite a lot on my second programming language attempt, PICKLE. Admittedly, programming it in C has been a real chore. I started following the Make-A-Lisp tutorial to try to give myself some plan for executing PICKLE. Mal, unfortunately, recommends dynamically typed languages; that unfortunately is a …

For the past week or two I have been working on a few things simultaneously. I keep prototype code that I’m developing but not quite ready to release yet in private GitHub repositories, and publish them when I’m ready. Lately I’ve been working on two different and …

Today I did a quick test of my little ATtiny85 microcontrollers’ capabilities. I had them sitting in a jar for a while, and I wanted to see if I could use them in conjunction as a coprocessor to manage some mundane task like regulating a motor. I have previously written …

I’ve been playing around a little bit with LIL on my ESP32 arduino. It works, but there are a few things I don’t like. LIL isn’t object-oriented by default, so I can’t do a lot of what I am used to writing code in Javascript and …

I have been working really hard this week on Schemascii. Like, maybe too much. But, I finally got Schemascii to the point that I could (if I wanted) upload it to PyPI and it would be a valid package.

Schemascii is also able to be called as a command-line program …

I spent the last two days fooling around with my half-idea of a diagramming program, Schemascii. What it’s supposed to do is be able to make a diagram of a circuit (like the ones you might make in Eagle or KiCad before you plan a circuit board) out of …

I’m starting to finalize the circuit boards needed for my Roboraptor upgrade. I am doing everything with THT components, which take up a lot of space, but I can solder by hand easily. Unfortunately, this means everything takes up a lot of space.

The top board, which will go …

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I finally found a programming language that I can use on my Arduino: LIL, written by Kostas Michalopoulos. It’s a lot like Tcl (but not quite), and it has a simple to use C API so I can add custom …