Although I’m familiar with Java, I don’t use it day-to-day. To keep current with arguably the worlds most popular programming language, I decided to use Java in a project that I’m working on in my off hours. In that project (which gathers and analyzes economic data) I decided to use Maven. Even-though my small project doesn’t […]
Part of the standard way to handle time on computers is to set the hardware clock (a.k.a. the BIOS clock) to UTC. Then users can select a timezone for displaying as their system time. Contrary to this conventional way of doing things, the Windows operating system sets the hardware clock to the configured local time. […]
In my last post on the Arduino Uno, I took my first steps with the micro-controller and started getting data from a GPS module – the Ublox NEO 6M. Once I was able to receive data from the module – which was pretty neat by itself if you think about it, I wanted to actually […]
At work, we’re using microcontrollers. We use them to monitor equipment and the environment, also to control machines in ways such as automating tasks and/or responding to certain environmental conditions. I work on the enablement team, therefore it’s part of my mission to facilitate other teams in their goal achievement. The automation team is responsible […]