One e-mail I wasn’t expecting …

Thursday I was checking my e-mail and I came across this message in my inbox :

Hi Tom,

I came across you blog on Cortex-M3 when doing some research.
Thanks for mentioning my book. I attached the latest errata list of the book here.
Hope you find the book useful.
Beside from the resources you mentioned, you can also get additional help from various forums:

ARM forum :
http://forums.arm.com/

KEIL forum : (you already know that
http://www.keil.com/forum/threads.asp

ST STM32 forum :
http://www.st.com/mcu/forumsid-23.html

Luminary Micro forum :
http://www.luminarymicro.com/forums

regards,
Joseph

This was most certainly one e-mail I wasn’t expecting.  It really is a cool coincidence that Joseph came across my blog and he is actually the first person to send me some feedback. (For those of you who don’t know who Joseph Yiu is read this post)

Today I also noticed that spam bots have finally found my blog and that I really should install Akismet (which I will get to later on today). Luckily no spam messages have gotten through so far. While I was sorting out the comments awaiting moderation I also came across a comment from one of my teachers at De Nayer. Apparently I must have missed that message back then and it got stuck in the moderation queue. It was certainly nice of him to drop by

So, getting to the point of this post : getting feedback is really nice and now I feel like putting up some more content in the upcoming weeks. Currently I’m working on a number of things I’d like to write something about in the near future :

• I’ve designed a custom development board based on the one I ordered from KEIL. So far it refuses to show any sign of life, but I still have some ideas as to why it won’t work… I’ll try to post an update on this somewhere next week.
• I managed to hack the Cortex’s SPI-interface into a shift-register using DMA, meaning it barely loads the processor.
• I also wrote a little piece of software in MATLAB which enables you to spy on the SPI interface through CSV files made by an oscilloscope. Probably I’m going to use this to develop my algorithm in MATLAB first and then port it to the Cortex-M3 using C.

That’s all for now

Ps : I’ve also put up the Cortex-M3 book errata Joseph sent me.