Tero's blog

My Arduino blog contains two new blog entries:

• a blinking LED example, for those who are just starting with Ada and Arduino
• and IBM Thinkpad T42 BIOS password recovery for people who own Thinkpad, have some soldering skills, and are already familiar with Arduino and Ada.

I have been quiet a while. This is mostly because I have been busy IRL (like always).

However, there are some things which I have done lately:

• Most notably I ported GNAT to Debian armhf. It is available from Debian armhf repositories already, but you can still fetch my original …

This (2.2) is long overdue bug fix release for Ahven. Ahven.XML_Runner had same bug as Ahven.Text_Runner and this release fixes it. Now your XML test result files should have skipped tests correctly reported. Another bigger change is API documentation generator change from Adabrowse to Sphinx.

As usual …

Using 16x2 LCD display for text output purposes is sometimes more convenient than serial communication via UART/USB.

But if you do the wiring on the breadboard you get quite a mess:

So, I wanted to create a shield for Arduino to make the LCD usage easier.

AVR-Ada includes library …

When it comes to Ada and its community, last year (2011) was pretty interesting to me. Here is a small summary what I managed to do:

• I did three Ahven releases (1.9, 2.0, and 2.1). I had hoped to do yet another (2.2), but didn't find …