Base station promo image (via PA Consulting Group) For the sole purpose of exposing the power of cheap off-the-shelf solutions, and to inspire others, engineers from "PA Consulting Group" created their own personal mobile phone network using a R...
BackgroundIn this tutorial series, we are going to learn modern c++ using the raspberry pi. So, what do I mean when I say modern? In August of 2011, a new version of the c++ standard was released that included some exciting new features.&...
So, I enjoy working out and have turned half of my garage into a home gym. One thing that I don’t have and would like in my gym is a big stopwatch for doing a cross fit work out, so I looked around to see what was on amazon and was shocked at h...
Spin is the high-level language used to program the Parallax Propeller processor. Propeller is an embedded microprocessor with eight (8) cores. The cores are called “cogs”. The Spin language has commands for assigning code to certai...
Recursive Drawing logo (via totem.cc) There’s a new web-app on the net that allows anyone to create complex shapes and images through what’s known as Recursive Drawing (process of repeating items in a self-similar way). The RD app was designed b...
My first job in the late 90s involved an entirely analog power supply. They sensibly didn’t even share the full schematics with users. We spent a lot of time tweaking the analog PID loop so that it could respond to sudden changes in set p...
www.youtube.com/watch CuteCircuit is a company known to produce clothes with integrated LED lights in them. They have produced the world's largest wearable LED display in the past with their Galaxy Dress. Their newest creation comes in collabora...
Thanks to my work with BlueStamp Engineering, I have the pleasure of watching people take their first plunge into the world of coding with microcontrollers. It's fun to observe the trepidation of the unknown morph into the first hint of underst...
(via Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Confidence in software can be a company's undoing. The higher ups do not know if a million lines of code are proper, all hopes were put onto the engineer. The code executes, the loops run. What happened next? The s...
Well, the truth is that I always knew that I wanted to write software. Like most other people in software, my first exposure was through video games. For me, I think the real draw was building something that was fun to play with.So, the s...
