FROM THE LAB

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Mehmed Muharemovic

First Apple Watch App!

December 20, 2018
For my lab day project in December, I decided to try my hand at making an Apple Watch app for our beta DTR app. I followed this tutorial from Ray...
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John Murch

Automatic Price Detection from a Product Page

November 21, 2018
I love finding deals online and have been thinking a lot about how to monitor sites during this holiday season. The past few months I’ve been playing around with Google...
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Mike Swierenga

Playing the Blues by the Skin of your Teeth

June 21, 2018
The Problem While working on projects around our house, my wife Emily and I listen to music using our esteemed Bluetooth speaker. Often times, though, our quest takes us into...
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Jason Miller

Procedurally Generated Art from Perlin Noise

March 29, 2018
I’ve been really interested in procedural generation after seeing all the things it can create. A month before this, on the previous lab day, Andy used a noise function to procedurally...
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Rich Rarey

Senior Software Engineer and Bluetooth SME

Building an FM/RBDS Transmitter using a RasPi Zero

March 20, 2018
I find it amusing that in this era of abundant personal electronic communication tools, “everyone” still wants to be a broadcaster. More specifically, an FM broadcaster. This belief stems from...
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Rich Rarey

Senior Software Engineer and Bluetooth SME

What is this Caller ID thing?

December 18, 2017
Every day, billions of telephone users take advantage of an early 1980s technology to help them decide if they want to answer an incoming call.  I was fascinated by the...
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Andy Lenox

Social Graph via Blockchain

November 22, 2017
Many of my lab day ideas are to explore some new technology. I’ve spent a day with GraphQL, doing image recognition with machine learning using CAFFE,  and doing a small...
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Mark Furland

USB Thinkpad Laptop Keyboard

October 19, 2017
Once a month at Tome everyone takes a break from their daily work and gets a free project day or Lab Day, where we can work on any project based...
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Tony Lawrence

A Quick and Simple Spatialized Virtual Reality Audio Mixer

August 29, 2017
A few weeks ago I created a demo for a Spatialized VR Audio Mixer. This is essentially a way to give pieces of audio locations in 3D space and a...
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Andy Lenox

Fun with iOS 11

July 21, 2017
iOS 11 is a funny release from Apple; one where they both implement the most basic, forehead slapping, obvious missing features, to some of the most impressive new technologies available....
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