Building Boxie a Kiosk Robot

Written by on February 27, 2017 in Linux, Programming, Technology
Building Boxie a Kiosk Robot

  I should have probably posted this back in September, but I have been too busy with work. My wife is the Box Tops for Education coordinator at our kids’ school, and in the summer she came up with the idea of building a “Robot Mascot” to motivate the children. Her vision of a Box […]

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Adventures in Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) – Part 1

Written by on January 22, 2017 in Technology
Adventures in Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) – Part 1

Normally I post about new system on chip technology, source code, or scripts that I have written. This post doesn’t follow the same theme, however; I will discuss some of the technology used during my adventures in teaching a STEM class. Setting the Stage Years ago when I was attending college, I tutored programming students in a […]

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C++11 State Machines

Written by on February 8, 2016 in C and C++, Programming
C++11 State Machines

I recently decided to take some time to learn about the new features in C++11 while working on a project at home. C++11 has added some really nice features such as native thread support, regular expressions, safe pointer types, and variadic templates. While working on my project, I found myself needing a flexible class which […]

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Getting Bashed by Dynamic Arrays

Written by on August 24, 2015 in Linux, Technology, Tutorials
Getting Bashed by Dynamic Arrays

The reason most people love Linux is because of the ability to quickly prototype a system; due to the plethora of free software, command line tools, tool kits, and scripting languages available to choose from. Recently I was working on a script written in the Bourne Again SHell commonly known as (bash). The primary reason […]

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XBox One – Fun with GPT Disk (Larger Drive)

Written by on July 14, 2014 in Linux, Technology, Tutorials
XBox One – Fun with GPT Disk (Larger Drive)

Last December the kids got an XBox One and over the course of 6 months the drive has reached it’s capacity. Recently Microsoft has added the ability to add an external USB3 drive to expand on the core storage of 500Gb, however; I figured it would be fun to disassemble the device and attempt to […]

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Programming for Kids

Written by on April 21, 2013 in General, Programming, Technology
Programming for Kids

Anyone who is interested in teaching their young children about computers and robotics should check out http://blog.minibloq.org . It’s really a clean looking project that allows kids to write arduino and other microcontroller code as easy as dropping widgets. In my humble opinion this is a million times better than ALICE. I hope to see […]

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Cubieboard or Cubiebust?

Written by on April 4, 2013 in Review

  After several weeks of waiting my Cubieboard arrived. It was sandwiched in a numerous of layers of packing tape as if to prevent me from opening Pandora’s Box. After shedding the layers of tape and mounting the device into its acrylic case it was time to get down and dirty. The device didn’t come […]

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Most Feature Rich Arm Board for the Price

Written by on March 30, 2013 in General, Technology
Most Feature Rich Arm Board for the Price

The Cubieboard is one of a numerous low cost System On Chip devices to hit the market and at $49 dollars packs a punch. This device provides enough power to run full versions of popular Linux distributions and provides better performance. 1G ARM cortex-A8 processor, NEON, VFPv3, 256KB L2 cache Mali400, OpenGL ES GPU 512M/1GB DDR3 […]

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