Variable Scope Variable scope relates to visibility, the larger the scope, the more portions of a program that will have visibility of that variable. In general you want to limit …
Data Types in Arduino/C++ You’ll find yourself likely using the same three or four data types in most of your programs but it’s important to at least be aware of …
Naming Conventions Looking through various programmers’ code you may notice variables with different styles, I’m referring more to the use of lower and uppercase rather than how variable names are …
Back to Basics Simply put, a variable is a representation of a value that can change. One of the most important elements of software is a variable. Anyone familiar with …
First, Back to Basics To understand bits, nibbles and bytes we have to revisit the idea of number systems. Remember in elementary school when you had to break numbers into …
With Arduino Uno R3 currently at $24.95 it’s hard not to wonder if those $10 off brands are worth a try. A few years ago I bought a SparkFun RedBoard …
Software Planning How do you eat an elephant? One of the first steps of building a robot or really anything, is planning. Building a robot to compete in this competition is …
I was recently asked what a resistor does, coincidentally I just received a notification in my email to take a look at this video. It’s a great video for showing the technical details as well as a visual example which can be helpful for those visual learners like me.
If I’ve told you once I’ve told you one thousand times, speed is the last thing you should be concerned with in an ASEE competition, read on and I’ll prove …
About Slack Growing dramatically in popularity, Slack is a great tool for communicating in groups. Features Google drive and github integration, in fact, integration with many different applications Multiple platforms …
