Yearly Archives: 2015

Using MetaWear with Node.js

Back in October 2014 I attended a talk by Erica Stanley called “Open Source and the Internet of Things” at the All Things Open conference in Raleigh. We were just starting to do wearable development beyond Android Wear and Google

Posted in ChromeOS, Development, Javascript, MetaWear, Node.js, Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu, Wearables Tagged with: , , , , ,

Adventures in 3D Printing

About a year ago we decided to get a 3D printer. Although there are lots of pre-made options available, it’s much less expensive to get a RepRap Prusa I3 kit and build one yourself. The Prusa I3 is an open

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Adding Gradients to Android Graphs with MPAndroidChart and DecoView

Recently, we worked on a project that required us to add graphs with gradients to an Android application. Below is an example of one such graph that we needed to create: There are lots of examples online that show how

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Giving Thanks by Giving Laptops to Those in Need

Nelson Mandela once said: “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” While Madiba is no longer with us, about a year ago I had the honor of meeting

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Interacting with the Android lifecycle in a Cordova Plugin

Anyone who’s attended one of my talks during the past year, knows that I love Mbientlab’s MetaWear boards. They’re great for prototyping wearables that offer rich APIs for Android and iOS. That said, when you’re prototyping a device, you may

Posted in Android, Cordova, Development, Javascript, Mobile, Wearables Tagged with: , , ,

Creating a Pedometer Using MetaWear and Android

Six months ago we started to play with a really cool wearable prototyping board called MetaWear from Mbientlab. If you haven’t heard of them you can read about the platform over here.  The idea behind them is that they are

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