Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Make Something That Isn't A Computer A Computer - Episode 2

This is a cop out because moving to where I'll be living over the summer took more time than I thought it would. So in this episode of "Make Something That Isn't A Computer A Computer", we'll be making a old router into a computer. I know, I know, it's basically already a computer... but we're going to try and benchmark its performance and see what it's really capable of and we're going to try to do more with this than we did with the drone board because this has far more documentation than that drone board did. I guess you could say it was... undocumented code. B)

Sunday, May 28, 2017

A Practical Guide to pthread And Pretty Fractals

Threads. Many programs need them, and they're important on multiprocessor systems (which, recently, is basically every system). Sometimes, they can be confusing, so I've taken the most most important bits and I've distilled them down into the basics of how to do threads in a basic C program using POSIX Threads (pthreads, for short). Let's get started!