I’m going to learn Android development, so I’m going to post a series of tutorials on basic android development. No need to explain more, here we go: First off, I’m assuming you followed the setup guide here (http://developer.android.com/training/index.html) and have eclipse with the android development tools installed. Next we are going to make an app with two buttons. When you

Had some trouble launching apps on my phone automatically from android developer tools with a keyboard shortcut. Turns out there’s a two step process for doing this: In your preferences –> Run/Debug –> Launching set “Launch Operation” to “Always launch the previously launched application.” In General –> Keys search for “run” and select the icon run element, set a keyboard

So you have an ubuntu image you want to save (say you just had to reinstall everything and do a custom setup and you don’t really want to go through all that again). Follow this tutorial to get remastersys installed on ubuntu: http://askubuntu.com/questions/133272/how-do-i-install-remastersys Use it like this: sudo remastersys clean sudo remastersys dist Then I copied the iso to a

I’m just making personal notes here so I hope this helps but things may not be completely explained or make sense. If you’re having problems with turtlebot connecting over USB it might be that permissions are setup wrong. You can check the permissions in: /dev/ttyUSB0 you might have to change to chmod 666 or a+rw…but this wont be permanent. If

This one goes out to all my homies who end up googling how to burn ISOs about once every year when they sufficiently screw a box and need a fresh reinstall. Here’s the process yo: First off, I already wrote about this once for sd cards, if you are looking for that please look here: https://iwearshorts.com/blog/raspberry-pi-the-5-minute-setup/ If you are looking to

So here’s what I did on my turtlebot: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo reboot My drivers stopped working. I couldn’t even get ethernet. Here’s a good set of what to do… Open your network interfaces file: pico /etc/network/interfaces replace the contents with this:   Then download the ethernet driver (compat-wireless.tar.bz2) here (so you can atleast get a wired

Well if you’re anything like me right now, you’re at your wits end, you’ve given up and your browser any site you can find that says something about images/importing and adobe flash builder… To no avail… I just spent the last 3 hours (3:07 to be exact) trying to figure out what some images import into flash builder and some

I recently ran into a new error after I installed xampp for the first time on my new computer. Check it: Cannot redeclare class ‘Config’ in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/Config.php on line 44 Amazing. This is happening because PHP doesn’t initially know where to look for your “config.php” file. I know I know, it’s a common name. Anyway, to fix this little gem,

Let’s get right to it shall we? If this is your first time, get a usb cord, plug into the beagle bone and plug into your laptop. Download the drivers for your computer in step #2 on this page. Then navigate to http://192.168.7.2. NOTE: you may need to restart your computer. If you want to make something blink, click the