One of the issues that I have with my home made auto start is range. Obviously, Bluetooth Low Energy is only supposed to travel about 35 feet, when it is unobstructed, of course. The problem that I have here is that the BLE antenna was inside of a metal box …

After several series of bench tests, I was finally ready to make the plunge and install my home made autostart into my truck. The vehicle in question is a 1993 GMC K3500 pickup truck. It took about 30 minutes to remove the lower dash portion and properly identify the wires …

As I progress through the C++ course at Udemy, I've just completed section 4. However, I ran into a few snags along the way. Some of them are due to differences between the instructor using Windows, and me using Linux. Most notably, I ran into a complete showstopper that took …

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Just wanted to let you know that I was able to finish and upload another hour worth of videos! That's right, currently there is more than 9 hours of video tutorial available. As promised, this was added to the series:

* Installing/using VirtualBox
* Fixing a VB Ubuntu problem …

While using my Hourglass app for Android phones, a user made an interesting observation:

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I love this open source app and using it quite often. But sometimes my phone is in my pocket and I'm listening to music and I miss the time ended notification ! The vibration is short …

While there are several guides out there on how to do this, I ran into a slight snag while trying to put Android Nougat on a Nook HD+, so I thought I'd share that with you. I was following this guide: https://nookhdplusandroid7.wordpress.com/

Following through the instructions seemed …

I'm at the end of section 3 of my online course, and I've learned so much! I'll be honest, since Java and C++ are both object oriented languages, I feel that it has been a pretty smooth transition so far.

While not part of the course, I noticed when showing …

Spent a little bit of time with a soldering iron.

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I put my project into a box, wired in all of the relays, and ran several feet of wire for connecting to the various functions. Hopefully this will work! I'm planning to do …

For those interested, I have just posted a video tutorial series on XDA for building Android Oreo, Nougat, Marshmallow, and Lollipop on 5 different phones, the emulator, and 5 different ROMs. Also included are custom kernel editing, adding apps, changing source code, backgrounds, and more. Here's what I posted:

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One of the most interesting things I've learned since completing the second section of my Udemy course on C++ game creation, is that of random number generation. In Android, this process was a little more straight forward, with everything behind the scene just being handled for you. You simply created …