Here we go again!

Me, a computer, a blank page and all of it under a self invented cool name!! Welcome to ArmadilloLabs!! 

This Blog has born to share my recently acquired knowledge about ARM Architecture coexisting with Linux. Has born to allow me remember what I did, which commands I used, where I searched at and overall to share that stuff with you, my upcoming visitor, reader o why not, my follower.

I´m saying I´m here again because has been a long and great road until now, until today. Lots of projects shared, a lot of source code written, lots of schematics and PCBs designed...

My history as blogger began at the University, ten years ago (Oh my gosh!!) I created a webpage called HobbyPIC.com, I used to share my projects with PIC Microcontrollers, some of them comes to my mind (GTP USB Lite (a simplified PIC programmer), PicUSB (A basic example to use PIC18F2550), TerraPIC (Self-controlled Terrarium, was my graduation project!), InvernaPIC (Self-controlled Greenhouse), a much more!! I collaborated and met great people all over the world, I remember specially all my time on TodoPIC Fourms and even wrote Source Code for an Electronics Thai Magazine.

A great opportunity presented in front of me when I was finishing my Master Engineering studies. A teacher offered me a profitable project for modifying and upgrading some scale models to teaching motor controlling, PID algorithms, fuzzy logic and... wait, wait, what did you said? Making money designing electronics? Making money doing what I always loved and shared freely? How can that be possible? How can I do it? How...? So I took the project and I started to answer my own questions on every single step!!

I founded my own engineering company (seven years ago!), I called it Microingenia Electronics, Ltd. so that is how I became an entrepreneur!! Projects were arriving, some business partners joined to the team. We developed some interesting stuff for our clients on different areas (domotics, industrial, renewable energy, etc). But we wanted more! We created our own products and opened an eCommerce for selling them, our area: Open Source Hardware and Software Modular Electronics. PIC Microchip as base, Arduino style, SparkFun modus operandi. We developed over 40 different modules and development boards. BEEPIC, MiE32U were our rockets training boards and Bluetooth and Ethernet our best selling modules! Unfortunately or not... business was not as profitable as needed so we decided to close it three years ago. Training boards, modules, firmware and software can be found yet in here: Microingenia OSHW.

So... here I am, happily living on Tarragona, a nice small city on East Coast of Catalonia, Spain. Working as salaried Hardware Engineer on a Multinational Company called Lear Corporation, developing awesome projects for Automotive clients like BMW & Daimler and with some free time between family, friends and hobbies to keep my mind blowing about what can I do to change a little bit this world for good...

Let´s start with the Advanced RISC Machine world. Thanks for reading me and welcome! =)