CI/CD

Recently I had a discussion where a colleague at work was looking for advice on how to keep 3rd party dependencies for his C/C++ project up to date. This is actually rather straightforward if you use package managers like vcpkg or conan. Turns out there’s also a pure cmake approach. The cmake function FetchContent is a very generic way to integrate dependencies into your build tool chain. All you need is a link to a git repository, a zip/tar archive or anything similar, and you are good to go.

A short overview on how I set up a CI/CD/CT strategy and tried a docs as code model.

My development environment for most of my programming work.

A simple step by step guide to create a julia app

A simple step by step guide to create a julia package

I develop a small toy setup with a pair of Arduinos and some ultrasound sensors to do object localization. The goal is to have at least 4 echo distances in each measurement to assert a unique solution of the localization equations. In addition to the position I also want to compute some validation criteria. The Hardware I’m using two Arduino Unos and 6 HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensors. Each Arduino is in control of 3 sensors and the sensors are placed in two rows of 3 sensors each (see below).