This is really just a side note for myself. I tend to do something only once in a blue moon, and then consequently forget how to do that again later. […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
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 […]
BlueFruit Project: Stage 1 Relays!
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 […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: LaserChess
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 […]
Moving from GitHub to GitLab!
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 […]