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Inheritance in Functional Languages

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There's a tendency amongst proponents of functional languages, like Javascript, to consider inheritance an anachronism of older (and, by implication, worse) ...

Using a Raspberry Pi as an iBeacon

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There's an excellent blog post by by James Nebeker and David G. Young about simulating an iBeacon using a Raspberry Pi and a bluetooth dongle. Since I alread...

More Fun With BeagleBone Black

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I've discovered that owning a BeagleBone Black (or, in my case, two) is kind of like owning one of those really, really nice cars that you buy but you can al...

btle.js 0.2.0 released

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I just (okay, a few days ago) released version 0.2.0 of btle.js to npm. This has a bunch of API changes - the connect method now gives you a Device object, i...

Fun with BeagleBone Black

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So, I've decided to try to play with ZigBee, and since I have a couple of BeagleBone Blacks hanging around doing nothing, I thought I'd try setting it up on ...

Node.js Bit Operations

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I was working on trying to get the barometer readings from my TI SensorTag using Node.js when I came across this problem. See, the user's guide has two code ...

Published Bluetooth LE Module

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Well, I published my Node.js module for Bluetooth LE, btle.js (pronounced "Beetle Juice") to npm. Even though it's labeled version 0.1.0, it's got most of th...