March 2017

Don’t kick yourself in the nuts: Different types of hall effect sensors

By: Jon Hemstreet / March 30, 2017 / Hardware

Hall effect sensors are quite universal. At first, I thought they were only used for detecting RPM on spinning motors. There are actually three different types of hall effect sensors and it plays a critical role in which one to pick for your project.

 

Raspberry Pi 3: Enabling VNC

By: Jon Hemstreet / March 30, 2017 / Blog, Internet of Everything, Internet of Things, Raspberry Pi

Quick guide to enabling VNC allows for remote debugging / a way of working on a raspberry pi without actually sitting next to it. After having connected to a wifi network we can begin enabling the VNC connections.

Raspberry Pi Email on boot debugging

By: Jon Hemstreet / March 26, 2017 / Blog, Raspberry Pi, Software Development

Often when moving a raspberry pi project around it’s IP changes. whether it is on your home network or a new one, it becomes a task to figure out it’s IP.

Managing l10n localization files

By: Jon Hemstreet / March 24, 2017 / Back End, Blog, Front End, Software Development, Web Development

Over the past few years, I have worked on a few projects that require internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) configuration files. The best way I have found is to use the domain key approach. This allows for fine-tuned control in your translations to each “page” or domain.

Angular html5Mode state refresh using Amazon’s ElasticBeanstalk

By: Jon Hemstreet / March 20, 2017 / Blog, Front End, HTML, Javascript, Software Development, Web Development

Angular’s built-in routing works wonders. you can do so by either registering the route with the hash in the URL or you can states ( html5Mode set to true ). This will leverage html5’s push state to route URLs. Unfortunately, this will cause some issues when attempting to refresh the browser.