McClusky Mayor Bryon Belile isn't sure why his city and surrounding Sheridan County don't have a public library. "I guess it never occurred to anybody. Nobody really pushed it, I suppose," he said.

Most embedded systems are reactive by nature. They measure certain properties of their environment with sensors and react on changes. For example, they display something, move a motor, or send a ...

State machines and related modeling techniques are commonly used in the production of safety-critical software (like in the aerospace and defense industries, nuclear power plants, transit systems, ...

This installment starts a new segment of lessons about state machines. The subject conceptually continues the event-driven theme and is one of my favorites [1,2]. Today, you’ll learn what event-driven ...

As opposed to conditional flag-centric code, a state machine diagram presents a very clear view of the design, and so provides a good example to students. As opposed to conditional flag-centric code, ...

Imagine a robot with an all-around bump sensor. The response to the bump sensor activating depends on the previous state of the robot. If it had been going forward, a bump will send it backwards and ...

State machines are so common that there are tools devoted to creating them by drawing circles and arts. There are simulators that will recognize your state machine ...