Phil Danne
Unit Test Failure
January 31, 2021As we celebrate quick, loud failure at Tome, with a physical “Fail Brick” that’s passed around the office, I thought it would be appropriate to start 2021 with a brief...
Tony Lawrence
Building speakers
October 29, 2020A few weeks ago, I collaborated with some co-workers to build 12 Balanced Mode Radiator speakers. We chose BMR speakers as they have a wide dispersion pattern without the artifacts...
Nick Dedenbach
Improving the Vue workflow
August 25, 2020On my latest project here at Tome, I have been learning the ropes of the amazing Vue framework. It’s been a joy to learn and work with. But like all...
Jeanne Beau
Voice Commands with Snowboy
August 10, 2020For my Lab Day project, I worked on implementing speech recognition in a fully offline mode. This would detect a wakeword followed by a limited set of words for which...
Praveen Ramesh Sai
Multi-platform applications with Kivy
June 1, 2020In an attempt to create a simple application to run across multiple platforms with minimum coding effort, I ended up finding the Kivy framework. Kivy is open source Python library...
Angela Fessler
Moving Picture using Fritz AI Human Pose Estimation on iOS
May 4, 2020My son wanted me to make him a Harry Potter-like ‘talking portrait’ of myself for lab day. I had a few ideas on this and kicked it off at first...
Joe Maples
Evil Hangman
March 15, 2020Recently, I’ve been learning Kotlin while working on Android apps. While doing this, Kotlin’s heavy use of Lambda functions and comparator parameters began to remind me of functional programming languages...
Ben Willshire
Unity Racer
January 20, 2020While browsing StackOverflow one day I noticed an ad for the “Virtual Circuit World Tour” for something called the AWS DeepRacer League. Not having any idea what that was but...
Mark Furland
Logicdata Desk Controller
December 1, 2019At $work I have a motorized sit/stand desk. I have to hold the up/down buttons to go to any height. Clearly, this is far too difficult. So I put together...
Phil Danne
RGB Fire Demo
November 20, 2019My early programming experiences could be described as “wandering.” I spent a significant amount of time writing code in the only interpreter I had access to, but rather suddenly jumped...