Well, I suppose the Bond reference does sound a bit out of place here, but perhaps if we break it down it will not seem to be so. In the […]
Project prep: Digital output on the Bluefruit feather!
While I continue to prepare for my big project, I still have a few more things to test. Namely, I need to test the digital outputs to make sure that […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Chess books ancient and modern….
There are many ancient writings about chess and the various pre-chess games that obviously inspired chess itself. The first recorded European chess writing was a poem called ‘Versus de scachis’, […]
Project prep: Testing analog input on my Bluefruit Feather!
I’m getting ready to use my Bluefruit Feather in a big project, well, big to me anyways. Before I do that, however, I needed to test a few things to […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: My Favorite FICS Commands
Last week we talked about Jin and FICS a bit, but I wanted to make a post to break down some of my favorite FICS commands, which help show […]
CompTIA stackable certifications!
CompTIA has come out with a new way to “stack” certifications together. Now you can combine certificates that are current to make several different “stackable” badges. I think the overall […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Jin, FICS, and Correspondence Chess
Apparently, the earliest documented correspondence chess game was played between Henry I of England and Louis VI of France, but the earliest correspondence chess game in which all of the […]
Getting permission to program the Bluefruit Feather board in Ubuntu
I am learning more every day by simply trying to play with my new toy: a Bluefruit Feather board! As I mentioned before, my brother got this little gadget for […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Touching up the User Interface….
My uncle once told me that a good paint job will sell a bad airplane. He’s right. As an airplane mechanic, he knew the value of the planes that he […]
Setting up the Arduino-IDE for the Bluefruit Feather in Ubuntu
There are a lot of neat tools available to program/hack/reprogram/work with this nifty little Bluefruit Feather board! One of them is the Arduino-IDE, a development environment that allows you create […]