Kacang Bawang

Month: November, 2014

UART Console Between PIC24 and BeagleBoneBlack

Introduction So, I’m working on a project which is based on the PIC24 microcontroller and I needed a console. A regular, plain-jane text output (and less-so input) to somewhere where I can read it. While this shouldn’t be much of a problem, for this particular combination there were a few little things that had to […]

Dell XPS15 SSD Crash Recovery

Fucking Dell! An expensive new laptop. Within one month HDD dies. Within 6 months SSD dies. In this post I will write down what I did to overcome an SSD drive crash while it was active in an SSD-cache setup under ‘enhanced’ option (ie, both read and write buffering).