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 […]
CompTIA stackable certifications!
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 […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Jin, FICS, and Correspondence Chess
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 […]
Getting permission to program the Bluefruit Feather board in Ubuntu
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 […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Touching up the User Interface….
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 […]
Setting up the Arduino-IDE for the Bluefruit Feather in Ubuntu
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 […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Keeping the king safe!
The word “Checkmate” in Chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means “the King is dead.” While in the starting position, there are eight different ways to checkmate in […]
Building a photon cannon tower….
Well, at least building one graphically! I was working with the Quiet Learner on his new tile tower defense game. He’s only in a pre-alpha stage right now, so there […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Perilous times for pawns!
Did you know that the piece with the lowest survival rate is the white queen’s pawn at d2? That’s right, out of 2.2 million master level games, this pawn survives […]
Having trouble building Bluefruit LE app in Android Studio?
While playing with my Bluefruit Feather, I decided to build the Android app straight from the source code, so I could see the ins and outs of how it works. […]