Blog Development Directions – Checkpoint After 25 Posts
Three development axes of the blog – publishing workflow, engineering simulations, and embedded systems with distributed architectures.
How This Blog Started
A brief story of how this blog was built using Jekyll and the Chirpy theme, deployed on GitHub Pages, with content written in Markdown and versioned with Git.
STM32: LED and button – GPIO input/output in blocking mode
Configuration of GPIO input and output in STM32 and LED control with a button in blocking (polling) mode using STM32CubeIDE and CubeMX.
SolidWorks: LEGO Brick – step-by-step example
Creating a LEGO brick model in SolidWorks using basic CAD operations.
Graphics: TikZ in LaTeX – workflow in a larger project (PDF instead of inline)
How to generate TikZ drawings as PDF files, crop them with pdfcrop, and use them in LaTeX documents instead of inline drawings.
Graphics: TikZ in LaTeX – basics and first circuit (circuitikz)
How to create drawings in TikZ in LaTeX: from a simple example to a first circuit using circuitikz.
Graphics: Plots in Python (Matplotlib) with LaTeX formatting
Creating plots in Python (Matplotlib) using LaTeX for axis labels, titles, and legends.
Graphics: MATLAB plots with LaTeX-formatted labels
Creating plots in MATLAB using LaTeX for axis labels, titles, and legends.
LaTeX: Overleaf – teamwork and article submission
Multi‑author work in Overleaf, project synchronization (Dropbox, GitHub) and preparing article submission for a journal.
Jekyll Blog: Newsletter – MailerLite
Newsletter implementation using a Static Frontend + SaaS Backend architecture (Jekyll, Chirpy, MailerLite).