Eagle ULP script for double sided PCBs on a CNC

For the past few months I have been working on and off on a ULP script that would allow for double sided PCBs on my home CNC machine. The script is 95% finished and I have been using it for a while. I recently ran into an issue where my older 5.x license of Eagle PCB was causing problems with the latest 7.x version of Eagle. Because of this I am trying to Kickstart an upgrade of my Eagle license in return for access to my ULP script that allows for double sided PCBs on a CNC, as well as allowing for non-square shapes.

Take a look at the campaign here: Eagle PCB update for CNC Double Sided PCBs

s1axter

Compile using ffmpeg libraries

Tonight I wanted to play around with the ffmpeg API and see how complicated it was.  I downloaded the example decoding_encoding.c file and tried to compile it against a local build of ffmpeg I made based on their Ubuntu compiling tutorial.

Well let me tell you, ffmpeg sucks at getting people up to speed.  Yeah it’s great they have a few examples on how to use the API, but their makefile is dependent on pkg-config, so it is totally useless for a cross compilation, you would have to add the libs path to your build machine, which is dumb.  Not to mention the libraries they use in the example makefile are missing library references required for the example, leading to a TON of missing symbol errors!  Well after a bunch of searching I found one or two references to people who got the examples built which lead to the commands to build the damn thing on my machine.  This post is for everyone wanting to get started with the ffmpeg API and so I don’t loose it!  Enjoy 🙂

The -I and -L paths should be to your ffmpeg build, mine was obviously /home/s1axter/projects/ffmpeg_sources/ffmpeg_build/

gcc -Wall -I/home/s1axter/projects/ffmpeg_sources/ffmpeg_build/include -c -o decoding_encoding.o decoding_encoding.c

gcc -Wall -L/home/s1axter/projects/ffmpeg_sources/ffmpeg_build/lib -L/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu -o decoding_encoding decoding_encoding.o -lavformat -lavcodec -lswscale -lavdevice -lavfilter -lfdk-aac -lpostproc -lswresample -lx264 -lavutil -lvpx -lvorbisenc -lvorbis -lmp3lame -ltheora -ltheoraenc -ltheoradec -lva -ldl -lz -pthread -lm

And a Makefile: ffmpeg makefile

C Preprocessor Macro Demo Video

Here is a demo video on using C Preprocessor macros to make your code easier to read and write.

As promised, here is the code in the demo program

And don’t forget to check out the original articles

http://www.mybitbox.com/2012/11/robust-c-code-part-1-c-preprocessor/
http://www.mybitbox.com/2012/12/robust-c-code-part-2-advanced-c-preprecessor/
http://www.mybitbox.com/2012/12/robust-c-code-part-3-wrapping-c/

S1axter

Binary files and revision control

I have written a new article on controlling binary files in a revision control system such as SVN.  The article started out as a post, but after taking up the whole page I thought I would made a dedicated page for it.

http://www.mybitbox.com/articles/binary-files-and-revision-control/

Now from my experience, talking about revision control is like talking about politics or religion, everyone has their own opinion and everyone else is wrong.  Time for some flames!