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Rust is DO-178C Certifiable

Here’s How (and Who’s Involved Today) In the world of safety-critical systems—think aerospace, automotive, and medical devices—certification is paramount. These industries demand stringent standards to ensure software behaves predictably, safely, and securely. Traditionally, languages like C/C++ and Ada have dominated these sectors due to their

What's new in Pictorus - Q1 2025

New DSPs, SPI + PWM  Support, Added Hardware Targets, Team Collaboration and More Greetings and happy new year from all of us at Pictorus! Last quarter saw a ton of new features released to production - from a pair of new digital signal generators, to new I/O protocols and embedded

The Auto Industry’s Software Tech Debt Is The Tools It Uses

This is the first in a series of blog posts from our Automotive Lead, Xander Cesari, about the challenges of developing vehicle software in the automotive industry. Subscribe to our newsletter to get updates about future posts or email xander.cesari@pictor.us to get more information about Pictorus! Searching

The Buyer’s Guide to Pictorus

Technologists face a tough challenge in choosing the correct software toolchain to empower their team and ensure efficient code delivery. In some cases, minimal tooling may be sufficient—ie a small IoT product with just 100 lines of code, where complex developer tools aren't necessary. However, when it

What's New in Pictorus - Q3 '24

Fresh off our recent seed fundraise last quarter, in Q3 we've already shipped a ton of new features, from UI tools to communication protocols, which we'd like to share with you today. CAN Support Pictorus now supports the CAN messaging protocol, one of the backbone technologies

What's happening to MATLAB?

Or, "The slow demise of the engineering toolbox everyone loved to hate at University." Twenty years ago, if you were brave enough to launch a new hardware startup in the automotive or aerospace domain, your toolchain was pretty simple: MATLAB for your engineers to do basic trade-off analysis,

Pictorus raises $3.5M to make software development easier for aerospace & automotive sectors

Today I’m thrilled to announce Pictorus has closed a $3.5M seed financing round, led by Catapult Ventures. After a year in stealth and nearly the same in Beta, we’re excited to use this latest funding to bring Pictorus to the aerospace, automotive, and robotic markets with a

Aircraft stabilization with Pictorus

In this blog post we're going to illustrate how to develop, deploy, and test a simple stabilization controller for a small, remotely piloted fixed-wing aircraft using Pictorus. All the hardware involved is relatively cheap and available on Amazon, and the software development and deployment is free as part

Introducing Pictorus Beta!

Engineers have been writing software to control hardware for decades, and it's always been a giant pain. They say "Hardware is Hard", but often it's the integration with software that makes developing new devices so challenging. It's because devices are finicky. They

Rust is DO-178C Certifiable

Here’s How (and Who’s Involved Today) In the world of safety-critical systems—think aerospace, automotive, and medical devices—certification is paramount. These industries demand stringent standards to ensure software behaves predictably, safely, and securely. Traditionally, languages like C/C++ and Ada have dominated these sectors due to their

Designing a Self-Balancing Robot with Pictorus

In this post we’ll cover the design of a two-wheeled self-balancing robot - a classic control systems design challenge. We’ll assemble the robot hardware from accessible off-the-shelf electronics and 3D printed parts and design a controller in a Pictorus app. Design Overview The goal of a two-wheeled self-balancing

What's new in Pictorus - Q4 Wrap-up 2023

Hello from Pictorus and happy holidays! We'd like to share some exciting product updates we've been working on as the year wraps up. Some features in early development are currently only available to alpha testers. Please reach out to us at support@pictor.us if you

What's New in Pictorus - Q3 Wrap-Up 2023

Hello from Pictorus! Today we're excited to share updates about the latest features released since the launch of our free open beta last quarter. As always, before we dive in, we’d love to hear any feedback from our beta users. Please feel free to reach out to

Building an Obstacle-Avoiding Robot using Pictorus

In this post, we'll program an obstacle-avoiding robot to autonomously drive around a room. It will detect barriers by pivoting its HC SR04 ultrasonic sensor to scan nearby surroundings.