Howdy! Time has been sparse the last few months due to my day job. I was driving something like 4 hours a day which ate into my creative time. As such, I haven't had the chance to do any fun engineering or programming projects for you to enjoy or secretly despise, heheh. I recently got [...]
Pokemon Go is a smartphone game that combines video games with the real world. Instead of sitting on the couch with a controller in your hands, you have to walk around your neighborhood parks and beaches to find and catch creatures in the game. Once you've caught enough pokemon, you can power some of them [...]
If you have turned on the TV or gone online once in the last five years, you have no doubt heard about 3D printing. It is the new tech fad that has swept the world and it makes a lot of promises. Need a new pair of shoes? Print them! Need a new liver? Duh! [...]
DeepText Facebook announced that they are introducing a new AI (artificial intelligence) algorithm that will be able to read your posts as well as a human. Their goal in doing this is to provide better understand the intentions of your posts and then use that information to create better targeted ads and services. Say for [...]
In recent years, the number of hobby microcontroller options has exploded exponentially. We went from a handful of (expensive) PIC and AVR boards to the Arduino family, the Teensy, Raspberry Pi line, Beaglebone, Particle family, the famous ESP8266, and endless other rather powerful and inexpensive consumer boards. What ties all of these together is for [...]