In preparation for my post on building a pong game on Arduino I wanted to flash the game code to the smallest Arduino compatible board I had lying around (my ATmega 168 Pro Mini I got from AliExpre...

When trying to work with an SD Card module on my ESP8266 I ran into some issues mapping the MOSI, MISO, SCK and CS pins. After some digging online it turns out that these values are hard-coded into...

Today my goal is to get up and running with a Nokia 5110 LCD module and as little Arduino code as possible. The Nokia 5110 LCD module is a great little screen and offers a resolution of 84 x 48 pix...

This is a quick reference page based on the Official Arduino Reference Guide aimed at giving useful data type usage examples. void The void keyword is used only in function declarations. It indica...

The majority of content found on this cheat sheet comes from the official Arduino documentation, if you find that something is lacking please comment and I will update this post accordingly. Inclu...

This blog post serves as an abridged summary of the below getting started guides for TypeScript and VS Code and is presented in the shortest possible form: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/la...

So last night I was playing around with OWIN and a small self-hosted application that made use of WebAPI 2. Everything was working fine until I tried to make use of the [RoutePrefix("")] and [Route...

I am starting development on a ROM File management project that requires me to break my ties with SQL Server and IIS (I will cover the IIS portion in a later post) to make the application more acce...

I am starting a small ROM management project to help me keep my various ROM backups in order and make searching for a specific backup easier. I decided it would be a good idea to programmatically e...

Following on from my last post I have made some minor tweaks to my pong game, and have addressed some of the issues that I picked up during the first phase of development, namely: Made use of t...