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Purr Programming Shirt Part 1 — The Hardware

Posted on 03/06/2016 by Lance Gleason

If you’ve met the folks at Polyglot Programming, you know that we love cats, t-shirts, and wearables. Which is, of course, exactly why we recently came up with an idea to combine all three into a project. No, we didn’t…

Posted in Android, Development, MetaWear, Mobile, Uncategorized, Wearables Tagged with: Android, MetaWear, Purr Programming, Wearables

Measuring Your Heart Rate on Android Using MetaWear

Posted on 02/28/2016 by Lance Gleason

While the MbientLab MetaWear has a number of sensors built into the board, it also has the ability to interface with a host of analog sensors. With many wearable devices focusing on fitness, you might find yourself needing to integrate…

Posted in Android, MetaWear, Mobile, Wearables Tagged with: Android, MetaWear, Wearables

Logging Thermistor Data With The MetaWear

Posted on 01/01/2016 by Lance Gleason

The MetaWear board allows you to easily create bluetooth enabled low power wearable devices. Unlike many solutions, as an Android developer you can write applications that program, and interact with the board using a API. We recently created an application…

Posted in Android, MetaWear, Mobile, Wearables Tagged with: Android, MetaWear, Wearables

Using MetaWear with Node.js

Posted on 12/11/2015 by Lance Gleason

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: Chrome OS, Mac OS, MetaWear, Node.js, Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu

Adventures in 3D Printing

Posted on 12/10/2015 by Lance Gleason

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…

Posted in 3d printing, Arduino, Development, Maker, RepRap Tagged with: 3D printing, Arduino, Bits and Parts, maker, Puzzle Chair

Adding Gradients to Android Graphs with MPAndroidChart and DecoView

Posted on 12/09/2015 by Lance Gleason

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…

Posted in analytics, Android, Data Science, Development, Mobile Tagged with: Android, DecoView, Gradients, MPAndroidChart, Shading, special effects

Giving Thanks by Giving Laptops to Those in Need

Posted on 11/26/2015 by Lance Gleason — No Comments ↓

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…

Posted in Agile, Development, Ethics, Giving Back, Python Tagged with: Development, giving back, Python, sisonke, South Africa, teaching

Interacting with the Android lifecycle in a Cordova Plugin

Posted on 11/22/2015 by Lance Gleason — No Comments ↓

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: Android, Cordova, Javascript, Mobile

Creating a Pedometer Using MetaWear and Android

Posted on 05/04/2015 by Lance Gleason — No Comments ↓

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…

Posted in Android, Mobile, Wearables Tagged with: Android, MetaWear, Mobile, Wearables

Allowing For More Signature Flexibility In The Ruby Passbook Gem

Posted on 06/22/2014 by Lance Gleason — No Comments ↓

Passbook is a often under utilized feature of IOS. For those who haven’t used it, Passbook is a app that comes with all phones running IOS 6 and above. Passes can be mailed, shared, retrieved from a website or delivered…

Posted in gems, IOS, Mobile, rails, ruby Tagged with: Apple Passbook, Gems, ios, Mobile, Passbook, Ruby