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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

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

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

Using Google Glass For Reveal.js Speaker Notes

Posted on 06/11/2014 by Lance Gleason — No Comments ↓

I have been a Glass explorer since last November and regularly give a lot of talks at conferences and meetups. One of the first things that I really wanted to have was a way to have my speaker notes be…

Posted in Development, Glass, Javascript, Mobile, Wearables Tagged with: Android, Glass, Google Glass, Keynote, Reveal.js, Wearables

WearScript, Google Glass, and Keynote Speaker Notes

Posted on 04/13/2014 by Lance Gleason

I’ve been a Glass explorer since December of 2013. If you’ve seen me around since then, you’d know that I’m usually wearing my Glass when I’m out and about. Some of its preinstalled apps, such as the one for navigation,…

Posted in Development, Glass, Javascript, Mobile, Uncategorized, Wearables Tagged with: Android, Glass, Keynote, Mobile, Wearables, Wearscript