My affordable education kit finally arrived! To be honest it actually arrived a couple of weeks ago but with all the holidays and a new project I’m working on, it has taken me a while to get to it. Today I opened the box and took a peek at what it looks like.
Continue ReadingA while back I heard about the affordable education robot. I thought it was a very interesting approach and I wanted to build one and see if I could get my daughter interested in it. I tried to buy one but my search for it turned out nothing, so I contacted Justinjustin, who is listed as the contact on the bottom of the page about getting my hands on one. Unfortunately, back then the only way to build one was basically to build it from scratch, but Justinjustin said they were talking to manufacturers and that a kit might be available at some point. However, when I asked, all that was available were the plans and diagrams. Now this was all in line with the philosophy of the project of building an open an affordable robot for education, so it endeared me even more to the project. However, it meant that I would have to print out the PCB and assemble the robot from the very basic components. I was hoping to get around to doing this at some point this year but I think I have too many projects and so something had to give.
Continue ReadingI’d like to introduce you to a project I’ve been working on over the past year. It’s called ResumeChef and it’s meant to help you create customized Resumes with a few clicks. You can view the marketing site or try the application out.
There are several reasons why I went down the path of building ResumeChef.
Continue ReadingI went poking around the Quartz.Net repository while trying to answer some related questions on StackOverflow. I noticed that there is now a quartznet-3 branch present (although it’s apparently been there for a couple of months). I pulled the branch but I was unable to build it. It was interesting to see that some things have changed, so you should expect to hear more about those in the form of blog posts.
Continue ReadingI’ve been working with Raspberry Pi hardware for a while now, but mostly using the tools that are more common in the space. That means that my devices have all been running Raspbian as the OS and that the programs I’ve written for them have all been written in Python. Now that the official release of Windows 10 for IoT is out, I thought I’d give it a whirl and talk about my experience.
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