One of the perks of bench testing your newfangled autostart project is that you can start to see patterns of use that may lead to trouble. The other is that […]
Fool’s Mate Friday?
Fool’s Mate Friday is going to take a little detour, as I work on learning a new programming language. If you have followed my blog at all, you will notice […]
Video to Gif Command Line Conversion
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 […]