Torstein Grindvik

Torstein's main interests lie in firmware development for embedded systems. This includes delving deep into the inner workings of embedded CPUs, best practice in software development, soldering, 3D-modelling, PCB design, and more.

Posts by Torstein Grindvik

The Making of a Smart Mailbox: Part 1 — An Overview

August 29, 2018

Torstein Grindvik

Misc. Other Projects

We’d like to be notified when (physical) mail arrives. Let’s do just that! Project Goals What do we want out of this? First of all, we want to be notified when getting mail. There are many ways to do this.…

Makefiles: Part 3 — Test, Lint, Deploy!

August 16, 2018

Torstein Grindvik

Software Tutorials

Be sure to check out Makefiles: Part 1 — A Gentle Introduction and Makefiles: Part 2 — Makefiles Can Make Webpages?. This time we want to be able to: run make test to run a few tests on our code, run…

Makefiles: Part 2 — Makefiles Can Make Webpages?

July 11, 2018

Torstein Grindvik

Software Tutorials

In Makefiles: Part 1 — A Gentle Introduction we learned a few tricks concerning the basics of Makefiles. Today, we will learn some of the more confusing symbols used in Makefiles’ syntax, commonly seen around the web in Makefiles. We will use…

Makefiles: Part 1 — A Gentle Introduction

June 28, 2018

Torstein Grindvik

Software Tutorials

Let’s look at the notorious Makefile today! We will ease into it and keep things clean! This first part will look at creating a makefile which does not do anything significant. Rather, we will create rules (which actions in makefiles…