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 1963 movie "From Russia With Love" James Bond is facing a fierce and brilliant opponent, Russian agent Kronsteen, who during …
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 I understand how to use them. So, I wrote this little ditty to get the job done. Note that I …
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', in 997 AD. According to wikipedia, the first book to be completely about chess is the 'Göttingen manuscript', written in …
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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 make sure that I understand how it works. So, I added to my "cylon …
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 why I like to use it for playing online chess. Don't worry, we'll be getting back to our chess programming project …
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 idea is to have a single badge to take the place of two or three certifications to simplify conveying your …
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 moves were recorded took place sometime in 1804 between F. W. de Mauvillion of Breda and an officer at a …
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 me as a Christmas present, and it has been a lot of fun to play with!
I was having a …
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 worked on. At the same time, he saw customer after customer get "swindled" on a plane that looks nice on …
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 and then flash your new programs to the board. I was faithfully following along in the Bluefruit …