Sorry, but I don´t quite get, what this tool is doing. Could you explain please? I would love to vote, but without knowing what it does it is quite hard to do
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It's okay! We picked a pretty hard set of problems to tackle, so the product of the jam, at least for us, was primarily our own improved understanding of those problems. The devlog goes more in-depth, but the basic idea of what we did is the following:
- Set up a development environment for a host machine (Windows PC) and target machine (Raspberry Pi)
- Setting this up for remote debugging like you would with a devkit turned out to be more work than we thought!
- For the target machine: neko_racing, a small, multi-threaded demo application
- For the host machine: eggcandle, a tool that gets device capabilities from the target machine and runs neko_racing with the right settings for those device capabilities
Ultimately, we want to be able to visualize those device capabilities so a developer can reason about any weird piece of hardware they're developing for in as much detail as they need or want. This was our first baby steps towards that goal.
Does that make sense?