I’m really not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t truly believe that Microsoft embodies all things evil. But after the announcement of GitHub’s purchase by Microsoft, I still decided to move […]
BlueFruit Project: Time Out!
Zip created at /tmp/arduino_build_587243/sketch_dec29a.ino.zip Using library Bluefruit52Lib at version 0.7.5 in folder: /home/alaskalinuxuser/.arduino15/packages/adafruit/hardware/nrf52/0.7.5/libraries/Bluefruit52Lib Using library nffs at version 1.0.0 in folder: /home/alaskalinuxuser/.arduino15/packages/adafruit/hardware/nrf52/0.7.5/libraries/nffs Sketch uses 59352 bytes (35%) of program storage […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Where to, Governor?
Today’s update is pretty basic. Just cleaning up and filling in some blanks on my JustChess app. While I wont bore you with the whole commit, you are welcome to […]
BlueFruit Project: Analog and Digital Detection (Code Name ADD)
From the post last week, you can see that I ran into a snag with the BlueFruit Feather board. It should be able to read the analog inputs separate from […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Check or Stale Mate?
Apparently, in 1988, World Champion Gary Kasparov accidentally stalemated his opponent during a blitz tournament in Canada. Mr. Kasparov had a king, queen, and a bishop against Kiril Dimitrov Georgiev’s lone […]
BlueFruit Project: Adding voltage detection….
Last week, when we looked at my code for the BlueFruit autostart, we came to realize that if it did not know that the truck was started, it would continue […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Suggestions, anyone?
Well, more specifically, suggestions, computer? One of the cool things about having the built in JustChessEngine in my JustChess app, is the option to have the engine suggest a move […]
BlueFruit Project: Vehicle Autostart!
That’s right! My latest project is to turn my BlueFruit Feather into a functioning autostart for my old ’93 pickup. Looking back at my project prep posts, you will now […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: That move was the highlight of the game!
There were several computer GUI systems invented already, but the first (to the best of my knowledge, correct me if I’m wrong) computer GUI that would highlight your move options […]
JustNotes – when your notes are too long to read!
A user of my open source app, JustNotes, made an interesting observation… if your note gets too long, you can’t read it because it goes below the keyboard and you […]