I recently became interested in the Raspberry Pi to help prepare for some projects I have coming. After reading the book “Raspberry Pi User Guide by Gareth Halfacree and Eben Upton”, I decided to place an order on element14 (Newark Canada actually) in appreciation of their support for the Raspberry Pi early on. If you…
About a year ago I decided to change what I am doing to manage my data beyond using a backup solution. At the time I considered all of the options very carefully and decided to settle on Microsoft. Primarily, because they had a lower cost cloud solution. And because they promise quality integration into the…
Update: RetroArch and OSBB – RetroArch to Survive, Changes Going Forward After some back and forth discussion, it looks like OSBB team will be resuming development on RetroArch after all, making me edit my posts for the third time today… With that said, it looks like there are some new rules laid down by OSBB…
A developers confusion over his own licensing caused updates to a ported version of RetroArch to be cancelled on BlackBerry 10 … A fist fight to the death, a little bit of blood loss, but back to business as usual. Edit #2: Status has resumed on the port. Update here: http://www.filearchivehaven.com/2014/04/23/update-retroarch-and-osbb-retroarch-to-survive-changes-going-forward/ it looks like the…
With BlackBerry having recently announced the death of AIR, including the planned removal of applications from user phones, I thought I would leave a small present for other BlackBerry AIR developers on their final build months. Freeware & Open Source : BlackBerry 10 ANE for AIR, Access to Camera Flash What it does: This allows AIR…
BlackBerry recently announced planned 10.3.1 changes. We all love new things! However in what appears to be a money saving initiative, BlackBerry announced they are planning to end support for Adobe AIR as soon as 10.3.1 is available. … and downplayed an important detail… they are planning to remove these applications and games from devices…
I received my Robo3D printer today (and with that, a big thank you to BlackBerry and all the BlackBerry fans! This was made possible by you!). I did have a few small challenges when putting the printer together, some items that the video really didn’t show. But I will walk through those with you including…
I recently ordered a large shipment of PCB boards from a company some of you may have heard called SparkFun. Besides getting a whole bunch of cool boards, I made one additional unnecessary purchase: A DIY Digital Oscilloscope Kit. See the video here: My Rating: Medium Difficulty – Not for Beginners (But Totally Fun!) Related:…
After much discussion, planning and effort, Shared Worlds is finally under way. What is Shared Worlds? Shared Worlds is a game concept, that was dreamt up over BBM chat by a group of developers looking to change how games communicate. Related: RPG Quest sent to AppWorld (Z10, Q10 and Q5) RetroRogue for BlackBerry 10 –…
Being a little bit of a techy nerd myself, one of my friends sent me a message about an interesting kick starter called Planets3 that he thought I might find interesting. They pronounce it planets-cube (but being the trouble maker I am, I call it planets-three as I reject any reality that uses the ³…
