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When Kids Want to Learn
May 20, 2014
Last December, I was bestowed with the opportunity to get feedback about a children’s game I helped make, Fractionauts, from the game’s ideal demographic: 4th grade students! Last week, I was again graced with an opportunity to return and gather more feedback. Within that lapse of time, a new team of students forked (Git jargon for […]
Introducing In-Glass, a Temperature Monitoring and Logging Utility
May 20, 2014
As humans, we typically like to know that our stuff is safe, even when we can’t be near it. Smoke detectors are nice, but they typically aren’t connected to the Internet. To that end, I, along with my friends Dustin and Lance, created In-Glass. On the hardware side, it utilizes a TEMPer USB thermometer, connected to […]
Homestretch Runner
May 15, 2014
RIT, like many other universities, sets aside a day for its students to prepare for final exams. Reading day, possibly known in español as “día de leer,” relieves most students of lecture/lab duties for the day. But sometimes, we need more time to prepare. And buffalo chicken pizza. And music. Enter the Homestretch Hackathon, an […]
Pre-Homestretch Homestrech
May 8, 2014
There’s no time of year quite like this. Spring is in the fullest of swings here in the swampy enclave of New York we call RIT, and nothing says Spring like “software sprinting.” Many associate Spring with baseball matches, grilling sessions, and a statistically significant increase in the presence of beautiful women. Of course, RIT has […]
Introducing Catbug, a Threaded HTTP Request Library
May 6, 2014
A common complaint levied against older Android versions and devices is the presence of lag. The immaturity of the software combined with weak hardware multiplied by rapidly increasing user expectations equalled an inferior experience to Apple’s iOS. Using an antique smartphone today can be more painful than using an antique computer. Yet, for all of the blame placed on the […]
Vale, Aio Wireless
April 29, 2014
Recently, Aio Wireless, an AT&T-owned budget carrier, merged with Cricket Wireless. In fact, the first phase of the merger has already begun: Aio will be shedding its name in favor of the more well-known brand, Cricket. Pretty much everything else about Cricket will be going away, including the fact that it uses Sprint’s network. AT&T’s […]
A Bar and a Camp Walk Into A University
April 27, 2014
An interesting behavior of developers is our propensity to join together for extended periods of time and engage in community-centered discussion about everything from Apache to xterm. These events cover a Boeing-sized variety of things, yet typically have most or all of the following: free stuff, free food, and freakin’ awesome talks. BarCamp Rochester is […]
PAX Your Bags
April 20, 2014
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending PAX East in beautiful Boston, Massachusetts. Aside from the free stuff (which included a packet of Pwnmeal, the “official porridge of e-sports”), the convention was filled with some bad-ass-looking new games. Among them was “Evolve,” a title which requires no more explanation than this: Petrifying! There were booths for […]
RocPy + PyCon = 6.28
April 17, 2014
A lot of people like Python. It’s a versatile language. It can be used to write for many platforms. It has an easy-to-use package distribution system. It is used at RIT in many curricula, including Computer Science. It powers YouTube, Instagram, and Meetup. There are developer conferences and group meetings large and small, local and national, […]
Advanced FOSS Project 2 Proposal
March 20, 2014
Title of Hack In-Glass Short Description of Hack Web-based temperature monitoring using Python, JavaScript, some computer running Linux (i.e. Raspberry Pi) and a USB thermometer. Software Libraries Needed Flask, libtemperd Upstream Distribution Repository PyPI, GitHub Open Hardware Needed Temper USB Thermometer Team Members Dustin Raimondi Lance Laughlin Chris Knepper All team members will be contributing […]