An Interview with Piotr Esden-Tempski

Welcome, Piotr Esden Tempski (@esden)

• Piotr got started with autopilots, Paparazzi UAV. These were initially made for ENAC
• The models (Lisa-/S,/M, /MX) are different sizes and have different capabilities.
• These platforms are built with STM32 (as are many of Piotr's other projects)
• His programming language of choice? Common LISP (listen to him on Embedded.fm for more about this)
• The Black Magic Probe came out of the autopilot projects and a collaboration with Gareth McMullin
  • Buy the BlackMagic here and the 1Bitsy here
• This tool supplants OpenOCD, instead allowing the user to connect to the GDB Interface via this hardware pathway.
• A key component is LibOpenCM3, an open source ARM cortex M library
• SIMD - single instruction multiple data
• Risk V5 - SiFive
• Interested in learning? Work through and mess with the existing examples for the 1Bitsy!
• Platform.io is an online IDE for multiple platforms, including Arduino.
• redare2 - live debugging
• sublime text
• Atom text editor
• ARM Debug Interface Five (ADIV5)
• The 1bitsy DEFCON Badge -- the 1bitsy 1up (hardware design files) -- was using parallel to LCD, so the frame rate was nearly 80 fps
• Teensy vs 1bitsy -- Similar tact, different approach to debug options.
• KiCad files are in repo
• Where to find Piotr (and sometimes Gareth)
  • black-magic.org
  • 1bitsquared.com
  • 1bitsy.org
  • On twitter: @esden
  • gitter.im