While looking at a few old chess programs for some ideas about my current programming lull, I stumbled across a rather useful old DOS program: Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess. Of course, I knew it originally was a book, but I did not know that it was later turned into a …

Blinking lights! Yes, the first prototype of the first stage relay setup for my home made autostart is assembled. As you know, a small 3 to 5 vdc BlueFruit Feather can't crank an engine starter. That's just too much current to flow through such a small board. To make this …

Okay, so this may seem a bit off topic, but I was exploring old chess games for some inspiration. While this didn't inspire me that much, it certainly was interesting to play Laser Chess, a DOS game circa 1994.

The premise of the game is simple. There are 18 pieces …

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 away from GitHub and copy all my repositories over to GitLab.

I had several choices when making the move from …

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 …

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 check it out.

Basically, I just added an about and settings page. Both pages are pretty basic, but the settings …

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 one another, but for some odd reason, taking a 3.3vdc reading on A0 would return 3.3vdc on A0 …

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 king. The problem Mr. Kasparov was facing was that of time running out. In his efforts to move quicker …

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 to crank, even if it was running. This is not good. Thinking about it, it seemed obvious that a simple …

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 for you. Of course, my engine has an elo rating below 300, so I'm not sure that I would take …