Mar 9Sphero: A ReviewMy Sphero Bolt immersion has reached its conclusion. The last few months I have worked extensively with both javascript and the Sphero bolt robot, and it has proved to be quite the educational device. During my time as a teacher of fourth grade, I often sought ways to interest my…3 min read
Mar 3SDKs and APIsRecently, I attempted to implement Spotify into a project. My goal was to allow a user to play the entire song of their choice. This lead me to the Spotify API, and after some research, I was disappointed to find that I could only play 30 second sound bytes of…3 min read
Feb 20Why I’m learning SwiftI have a lot of apple products. I text friends and family from an iPhone, I watch my television through an apple tv, I use an iPad to read, and I’m writing this blog post on a Mac. I don’t know, when I became such an apple consumer, however I…3 min read
Feb 16Sphero: Sensor ExplorationThis week, I continued my exploration of the Sphero Bolt. This involved looking at two pieces of hardware that I have not touch much while working through my Sphero projects. The first was the light sensor with the second being the magnetometer, thus allowing me to continue my exploration of…7 min read
Feb 7When Sonic met Knuckles…In the last few weeks, I have two experiences with matrices that really stuck out in my mind. One involved the Sphero LED 8 x 8 matrix and the other a slight recreation of Tetris. Matrices are collections of arrays. In Sphero the LED matrix is composed of 8 matrixes…3 min read
Jan 4Adding features to Sphero PongI’ve been working with the Sphero bot for a few weeks now. Last week, I was able to create a very minimal version of the game pong. My program allowed Sphero to bounce back and forth between two players. Not much, but a small win nonetheless. This week, I set…3 min read
Dec 20, 2021Sphero as Pong.This week I set out with a goal to build a program that would allow me to use sphero to play pong. A task that seemed quite simple yet herculean at the same time. It would require using my a great deal of the javascript fundamentals that I have learned…3 min read
Dec 14, 2021Sphero: A toy for motivationor lack thereof A couple months ago, I saw an advertisement for a toy. What interested me the most about it was that it was a robot aside from the standard block-based languages that I had see with various other items in this Educational Technology domain, this robot allowed you…3 min read
Nov 4, 2021So, you’re thinking about learning to code…One of the first things that you are going to learn about when embarking on this will be datatypes, and lucky for you, you will always be able to refer back to this article when you first grasping the differences within them. …Datatypes In Javascript2 min read
Sep 23, 2020Higher Order Functions :rewriting _.every and _.some . I’ve done this dance before, twice to be exact, yet each time I solved these particular problems in different manners. At this moment we are tasked with rewriting _.each and _.some from the Underscore.js …Java Script3 min read
