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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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/ […]
Adding a device driver to the linux kernel for android opens up a whole pandora’s box of issues that are related to building the driver and then integrating it into the whole android infrastructure. I have always tried to take the shortcut approach of getting a build from one of the board manufacturers, and then […]
UPDATE: Updated with data on using the hikey960 A lot of times in my hurry to get moving on a system I have a tendency to just simply say sudo adb and move on to solving my bigger problems. It works but sometimes it is better to get organized so that we do not have […]
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