I work out how to save RD6006 power supply calibration register values (by sniffing serial port output from the RDTech Windows software) and then write two Python scripts: one to adjust the calibration and another to check it by sweeping through the output voltage range, measure and then plot actual output values.

A story about implementing Conway’s Game Of Life while learning the Verilog hardware description language. I do a performance comparison between a hand-implemented C++ version and a simulator generated with the fantastic Verilator. Along the way there is some Python bashing and a minor existential crisis. Fun times!