Lab Notes
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Multiple Co-operating Grammars in Raku
Recently I’ve been using Raku’s grammars to parse a custom language for a project I’m dealing with at work. Grammars are a very powerful tool for quickly iterating on parsers and exploring how a language might work.
In the process of this experimentation I bumped into a corner that doesn’t seem to be documented anywhere: calling grammars from each other.
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2022
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Shared state with Terraform
Sharing Terraform state using S3 and DynamoDB.
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Hello World on the Raspberry Pi Pico
The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the new Pi Pico a few days ago; their first foray into the world of microcontrollers.
I have a few embedded projects in mind and the board has some very interesting specs (and certainly an interesting price, at £3.60!) so I picked one up to play with.
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2021
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Flashing a Vampire V4 from Linux
The Vampire V4 from Apollo Accelerators is a modern continuation of the classic Commodore Amiga line of computers.
Since it is FPGA-based it’s possible to upgrade the board to fix bugs and add new features by flashing it with updated “cores”. Here’s how to do so using Linux.
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Flashing a Colour Maximite 2 from Linux
The official method of updating the firmware on the CMM2 is detailed in the manual, and requires the use of STM’s 'STM32CubeProgrammer' software. I don’t really want to have to mess around with Windows if I can avoid it, and many of the steps listed in the manual assume the use of an earlier revision of the CMM2 with the processor on its own Waveshare daughterboard. With the model I have there’s only one board with the processor mounted directly onto it.
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Logging the MikroTik LTE setup process
Today I used the setup I built in the previous lab to capture the setup process for the MikroTik R11e-LTE6 modem.
Very little configuration is required for this in RouterOS.
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Running RouterOS on a PC Engines APU
This post is setup for a larger project; I’m trying to build a small homebrew router using OpenBSD and a MikroTik LTE card. Unfortunately documentation for this card is rather sparse; OpenBSD does recognise it on boot as a
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