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Sky-High Data: Architecting a Mechatronic System for Environmental UAVs

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0200

Environmental monitoring is changing rapidly with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). I worked on a specialized amphibious UAV platform built for georeferenced water sampling and real-time chemical analysis in rivers and open basins. The mechatronics, airframe, and much of the onboard electronics were developed by others; my contribution was focused on ground-side software and on how the embedded stack should be structured.

The Amphibious Mechatronic Challenge
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Unlike camera-only drones, this UAV had to land on water, operate against river currents up to 2 m/s, and interact with the environment physically.

Extract timesheet from iCal

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:00:59 +0200

Consulting and project work often live in the calendar first: blocks for clients, meetings, and focus time. Turning that into a timesheet or a billing summary usually means retyping or awkward copy-paste from Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Calendar into a spreadsheet. Exporting iCalendar (.ics) is built into most of those products; the missing piece is a lightweight way to reshape that export into tabular data you can sum and attach to an invoice.

GitLab CI/CD pipeline for Keil uVision

Sun, 19 Sep 2021 21:32:59 +0200

This is a practical setup I use to build Keil uVision projects automatically with GitLab CI/CD.
The goal is simple: every commit should produce a reproducible firmware build, with logs and binaries attached as artifacts.

If you work on embedded systems, this gives you fast feedback on broken builds and avoids “works on my machine” problems.

Prerequisites
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Before creating the pipeline, ensure:

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Engineering notes, shipped in public on Riccardo Dal Fiume

Sky-High Data: Architecting a Mechatronic System for Environmental UAVs

The Amphibious Mechatronic Challenge #

Extract timesheet from iCal

GitLab CI/CD pipeline for Keil uVision

Prerequisites #

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The Amphibious Mechatronic Challenge
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Prerequisites
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