BlinkThorLabsWe Automated 80% of Our HIL Regression Suite. Here's What Broke First.
A practical retrospective on what went well, what didn't, and what we only found because we went looking.
Every engineering note
45 write-ups across 8 disciplines, newest first.
Reading a Radar Datasheet Like an Engineer, Not a Salesperson
Every number on that page is true. Not all of them are true in the way you're about to assume.
MISRA C Violations We Actually Argue About in Code Review
Five rules, two sides each, and the verdict our team actually ships with.
Flash Bootloader Rollback Protection: Defending Against Downgrade Attacks
Think like the attacker for a minute. Then build the bootloader that makes their plan pointless.
Camera-Radar Time Sync: The 40ms Bug
A missed PTP correction cost four car-lengths of tracking error at speed.
Simulating Rain: Why Our LiDAR Model Lied to Us in CARLA
Six weeks of validation numbers told us we'd solved rain. They were answering a different question than the one we asked.
UDS Diagnostics Over DoIP: What Actually Changes When You Move Off CAN
Physical vs functional addressing, and the multi-client problem CAN never made you think about.
Building MeKongBot: A Full-Stack ADAS Robot on a Hobbyist Budget
Perception, planning, vehicle control, safety logic, and HMI — at 1/10 scale, on a desk, without touching a real car.
YOLOv8 on an Embedded GPU: Squeezing Real-Time Inference Out of 15 Watts
Model optimization matters more than your motion model. Here are the numbers.