Technically, Technium Adeptus is a social experiment that this blog is named after. This blog was created for two reasons. The first is that a friend suggested that it would be a good idea for me to start a technical blog, because it might improve my employability. I do a lot of technical projects, and writing about them would not only be useful for employment prospects, but it could help a lot of people with similar projects (I seem to pick projects where it is very difficult to find good information). The second is the social experiment. I am not going to discuss the experiment in any detail because it might taint the data. The reason this will be useful for it is that I have started writing two books that I plan to publish, and this would be a good place to discuss things beyond the topics of the books that might be useful for those who are using the books.
Technium Adeptus is a pseudo religious pro-technology meme. Technium represents technology, and Adeptus represents an organization or hierarchy of those who work to advance technology in a way that encourages free exchange and use of technological knowledge. Technium Adeptus supports open source software and hardware. For any more information, you will have to read the book once I finish it.
All of the books of the Technium Adeptus will have some focus on teaching how to create and control technology. The first will include tutorials on basic electronics and programming. The second one that I am currently working on will focus on programming an ARM processor designed for embedded applications. The third, which has not been started, will focus on programming a far simpler embedded processor, with some focus on assembly language programming. Since the later two of these will use an open source Linux development environment, one of my next posts will be instructions for installing Linux on a VirtualBox installation and getting the USB pass-through setup for loading programs onto the microprocessors.
One of my goals with Technium Adeptus and the associated books is to make creation and control of technology more accessible to normal people. I am spending extra effort on explaining complicated processes in more detail, and in simpler terms, so that less technologically literate people can understand more easily. I am also trying to format much of my material in more of a walk-through fashion, with fewer assumptions about what readers may already know. As such, if my readers find anything confusing, I hope they will comment. I do not typically approve this kind of comment for public viewing (to avoid clutter), but I will read the comments and try to fix any problems they point out. I am not opposed to fixing issues in posts even after they are several years old.
I plan on using a similar post naming scheme to my Makeshift Technology blog. Blog posts that are part of a series on a particular subject will be named with the subject name, followed by a colon, followed by a subtitle for the post. Maybe this will make it easier for people following specific projects.
I hope the knowledge I provide here finds its way to those who are looking for it. Enjoy!
