PCalc functions for converting between for latitude/longitude formats

I needed a way to convert Latitude/Longitude coordinates between Degrees+Decimal to Degrees Minutes Seconds notation. I created some user functions within the excellent PCalc app that can do this inline in PCalc.

Porting indoor weather (BMP085) logging project to SFE Phant

For a while now, have had a time/temp logging system in my house. It is still hosted on my very first Raspberry Pi, and uses a BMP085 temperature/pressure sensor, and two 1.2” LED displays from Adafruit. The logging on ~~Pachube~~ -> ~~COSM~~ -> Xively needed to be updated to something else, so I decided to use Phant from Sparkun Electronics (SFE).

.local Networking with ATS in iOS 10

Discovered today that in iOS 10, NSAppTransportSecurity adds a new exception key for .local domain accesses: NSAllowsLocalNetworking

Alamofire HTTP library with Xcode 8 and Swift 3

Had to figure out how to use the Swift 3 branch. Didn’t find the instructions elsewhere.

Wireframes for Octotrol

Using Notability app on iPad, annotated “wireframes” for main app tabs.

Feature list pruning

A feature list developed for this app, which has a working title of Octotrol.

iOS App Dev class from Udacity

Will be blogging on How to Make an iOS App Udacity course.

FoCo Girls Who Code and Pi's

Yesterday I participated in another successful demonstration of the RGB Slider with some Pi’s. This one was with a wonderful group Fort Collins Girls Who Code.