refactoring the dinosaur
- @noopkat -

suz hinton

@noopkat
NYC
front-end dev @ kickstarter

photo of NYC cityscape

KSR library

Zach Dunham

public radio

public radio

public radio software

Problems

Accessibility
Ugly
Error management

I am a modern lady

with modern taste in software

we can do better for hardware apps

for both end users, and developers

public radio software

nw.js homepage

screenshot of avrgirl example code

public radio

attiny45

Atmel® ATtiny45

4KB program memory
256B EEPROM

€1

laptop, programmer and chip in a row, with labels above them

diagram with 2 boxes: GUI and upload

AVRDUDE

AVR Downloader/UploaDEr
written in C
open source

avrdude strengths

it works really well
been around a long time
traction++

avrdude limitations

command line only
no tests
fragmented community

creating a NodeJS alternative

NodeJS advantages

small family of packages
easier to test
better flexibility for use
more accessible*

publish it for others!

avrgirl

AVR General Isp pRogramming tooL

trollface

meadow

meadow

shaved mammoths

screenshot of google with no results

this posed a challenge or two

challenge #1

support USB programmers

four example photos of programmers

Protocols

STK500v1
STK500v2
AVR109
USBtinyISP

angry looking datasheet

sample page of a datasheet

challenge #2

support all the Atmel® chips!

> 400

400
135

chip json example

200MB of XML

my crying face

 npm install xml2js

my crying face

shaved mammoths

avrgirl architecture drawing

avrgirl architecture drawing

four icons, each representing a released avrgirl package

why

my crying face

better developer experience

Do the maths properly. It will all be in words. You then display a byte location counter with word content. Sit down and use consistent sizes / reports. David.

a very sad puppy with its head down, alone next to a park bench. It has been left behind and is very lonely.

screenshot of avrgirl example code

♥

beautiful docs
ease of use
modern

better user experience

♥

improved a11y
ease of use
non scary

screenshot of public radio app

github.com
/noopkat/avrgirl

meow.noopkat.com

lessons
love
loneliness

> console.log('thank you');

 > github.com/noopkat/avrgirl

      > meow.noopkat.com

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