Jordan Schaenzle on Atomic Spin

Ruby

Dependency Management with Rubygems & Cocoapods

Just because your dependency doesn't contain Ruby or Objective-C doesn't mean you can't use Rubygems or Cocoapods to manage shared code.

Project Stories

My First Visit to a Contract Manufacturer – Flextronics

My first visit to a Flextronicx, a contract manufacturer we've been working with for the last few months.

Evolving the Industry

Hey Kids – Embedded Dev Is Fun Too!

I found electronics mysterious, exciting, and almost magical as a kid. Today, I can look at a circuit board and understand what all the components do.

Extracurricular Activities

Talking SPI on Raspberry Pi

Two ways to communicate using SPI on the Raspberry Pi.

Web Apps

Charting Data with jqPlot

jqPlot is a jQuery plugin that supports drawing line, bar and pie charts with many customizable features.

Development Practices

Shorten Board Bring-up with a Well-Designed Alpha Board

Creating a well-designed Alpha board adds no additional cost, but can save you a lot of time and frustration. Here are 3 steps to creating great, time-saving alpha boards.

Embedded Systems

Cheap, Long-Lasting, Low-Power Device Connectivity with Bluetooth LE

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group's latest version, v4.0, significantly reduced the data rate and added Bluetooth LE (“low energy”).

Extracurricular Activities

Optimizing SQLite on Raspberry Pi

A few experiments to optimize SQLite for use with Raspberry Pi.

Embedded Systems

Getting the Most out of Ceedling’s Module Generator

Ceedling's Module Generator lets you create stubs of source files, header files and tests, in the directories of your choosing, with a simple rake command.

Platforms & Languages

Experimenting with Verbal Expressions

Verbal Expressions is an open-source project that allows the definition of regular expression patterns using easily readable text. Here's why I use it and how I'm trying to make it

Web Apps

HTML5 Progress and Meter Elements

How to use and customize the HTML5 progress and meter elements.

Extracurricular Activities

Wireless Communication Between Raspberry Pi and Your Computer

A Raspberry Pi wireless configuration that broadcasts an ad-hoc network and allows you to easily connect with computers.

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