Author: Jordan Schaenzle

Adding an OLED to Your Particle Device

Anyone who knows me very well could probably tell you that I’m a pretty big fan of Particle, a provider of hardware and software components for building internet-connected products (IoT). I love their product suite because they have abstracted the common functions of IoT products into easy-to-use components while still allowing access to all the nitty-gritty details for those […]

An Immutable Asynchronous State Holder in C#

Managing state in a clean way is probably one of the most challenging aspects of many software projects. When using asynchronous programming technologies such as .NET’s async/await functionality or the Reactive Observable pattern, the problem of state management is exacerbated and often becomes a source of errors. In several projects that I have worked on […]

Creating Strong, Successful IoT Products with Holistic Development

Internet of Things devices are valuable because they bring together physical objects, apps, and the cloud. That’s also why they’re extremely difficult to build successfully. All the different pieces of an IoT system have to work seamlessly together, and they have to provide a smooth, successful user experience. So how do you build each piece […]

A Simple Message Queue for C

Let’s face it, when you’re doing embedded development, you really don’t have a lot of great tools at your disposal. If you’re lucky, you might have a C99-compliant compiler and a microcontroller with floating-point hardware and DMA. If you’re unlucky you might have a microcontroller that doesn’t actually have a stack and a compiler that […]

Elegant Form Validation Using React

Over the past few months, I’ve really been enjoying learning to use React for front-end web development. I love how React encourages you to write clean code by breaking your presentation components into small chunks that are easy to reuse. Lately, I’ve been working on an approach to add form validation to React components, and I’d like to […]

IoT Made Easy by Particle

I love the Internet of Things (IoT) uprising that is happening right now. I mostly spend my days writing software, but my degree is in electrical/computer engineering, so IoT technologies combine a lot of things that I am interested in. When the Raspberry Pi first came out, I got very excited and immediately began building […]