From The Lab
Evil Hangman
Recently, 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 […]
Unity Racer
While 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 […]
Logicdata Desk Controller
At $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 […]
RGB Fire Demo
My 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 […]
Plane Spotting with ADS-B
I wanted to select an aviation topic for this Lab Day, and in exploring potential projects found that an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) receiver and decoder could be built on […]
Tool recommendations and Bash Snippets
While reading links from an article on dotfiles in the first issue of Paged Out I came across a tool I hadn’t seen. I like reading about other people’s tools […]
Minesweeper solver
Minesweeper has always been a fun little game that you can throw up in your free time that still requires a minimum amount of logical problem solving in order to […]
Using the Fourier Series to Draw SVG Images.
The Fourier Series is a method of approximating a periodic function with a sum of sine waves. This was invented as a means to solve the heat equation, which is […]
Using Build Configs to Change Variables in Android Studio
In Android Studio it is possible define a “Build flavor” to set variables for different configurations of an app. By default there is already 2 build type, release and debug […]
First Apple Watch App!
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 […]