Saw the link that one of the developers of COBOL had died. Some nostalgia there…this was the first programming course I ever did (1986) and my grades in it were good enough that the programming school I went to gave me a free course to do advanced COBOL and DBase III+. Never did any COBOL […]
One of my biggest issues in travelling to china is that… My credit cards don’t work anywhere but a major chain hotel I have to carry cash, and most likely go to an ATM in china to get money Contrast that to the way that my colleague in china makes payment! WeChat! But isn’t that […]
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My simplest hardware project
Solving a problem, or alleviating pain for a user give’s the most pleasure. The simpler the solution the more the pleasure. That is what you think back and go…damn that was cool. It helps even more when that simple product sold thousands… In 1995 I was asked to help somebody with a small project. The […]
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Winning the lottery
All my life I have wanted to win a lottery. I have fantasized about the car’s I would buy, the large house with a garden that would be mine. I haven’t won one yet. Is it even possible that over the past thirty of forty years that the fantasy came alive in my mind I […]
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Waking up an android device with adb
When working with development boards…one of the most irritating item is the screen going off, and the screen locking. It gets irritating because I dont usually have a mouse handy and keep forgetting to make the effort of making sure the screen does not lock. A quick fix… adb shell input keyevent KEYCODE_POWER adb shell […]
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MAYA
Read an article about Raymond Loewy. Interesting that I have not heard of him before. But then the title of the article was absolutely clickbait. The Four-Letter Code to Selling Just About Anything https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/what-makes-things-cool/508772/ It dosent change that the article was good enough that I grudgingly fired up wordpress and decided to blog this. In […]
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Using GPIO’s as Key Events in Android
Sometimes the smallest things you want to do can take a few hours. I have a gpio input that I am getting and I want to convert that into a keystroke in android. You would think that something like that would be the simplest thing. But with DTS and the constant simplification of the linux […]
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Working with headless android
A lot of times I am working with boards that do not have a display and need hdmi to connect to a display. This also gets irritating because I also need to lug around a keyboard and mouse to work with it. Found an interesting app that solves this in a pretty cool way. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/mirror-android-screen-pc-mac-without-root/ […]
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