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Telling stack, heap and static storage apart and detecting stack overflow

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Buffering readings in a bounded offline queue with a drop… Building a room controller around a table-driven state… Building a timestamped data logger that survives missing… Debugging with a hardware debugger and decoding an ESP32… Passing data from an ISR to a task with a single-producer… Storing settings in EEPROM emulation or ESP32 NVS, and… Telling stack, heap and static storage apart and detecting… Choosing standard-library facilities that fit… Explaining DMA and which named chips can use it for which… Telling a USB-UART bridge, native USB CDC, USB-Serial-JTAG… Writing short, safe interrupt handlers with volatile shared… Deciding when dynamic allocation is safe, and using static pool… Reading a chip's memory map: flash, SRAM and peripheral… Handling text with char arrays and snprintf, and why… Tracing what runs at power-on: reset vector, startup code,… Using pointers as memory addresses, and arrays as pointers to…

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