Hi, it’s been a while since the latest post. One reason to the quietness has been a slight change in our life. We figured out we would like to have some extra activities and fresh outdoor life so we went off and rented a little garden near us. It has…
Air quality monitoring revisited
Hey, in the previous post I discussed the basic implementation of an air quality monitoring system based on Raspberry Pi Zero W and a couple of sensors plus suitable software for storing and providing the data. In this post I will briefly discuss the web application created for visualizing the…
Air quality monitoring with RaspBi and visualizing with AngularJS + Express
Hi, my recent project has been an air quality measurement system at home based on Raspberry Pi Zero W with a set of suitable sensors and software accessing the sensor data. The results are planned to be stored on a NoSQL database on a server and visualized in a Web app…
Marathon without training aka Hannover Marathon 2017
Hi there, here’s one tired man writing this post. I did it after all – Off I went and participated at the Hannover marathon. I did that mostly for my friends who I hardly meet nowadays. I was aware that my workouts have been lousy during the past few months, but thanks…
Raspberry Pi and the (returning) joy of tinkering with hardware and software
Greetings, the past two weeks have been such a good time thanks to Raspberry Pi Zero W and the CamJam Edukit #3. I have honestly been like a child when getting anxious about something with full of energy and hardly wanting to go to bed. The threshold to start experimenting…
Raspberry Pi – a soul for a robot
Hi there, the frustrating time when recovering from the flu still continues and I have had time for a plenty of nice(r) things. 😉 My Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless finally arrived and in addition to that I have ordered an additional extension kit from CamJam (Cambridge Raspberry Jam). The kit enables…
From zero to hero
After weeks of desperation and bad health the spirits are finally getting to a better direction. Maybe I will defeat this disease after all. Tomorrow I plan to take the first steps towards training. I really want to be careful this time as I don’t want to lose the whole…
Raspberry Pi Zero W
Hi there, this time there will not be anything about the running due to that my health condition still is crappy, unfortunately. I hope I still one day am able to do training without problems and worrying about the health. So I have once again invested some time on gadgets…
Setbacks, setbacks, setbacks
Hello from the sickbay once again. Since yesterday I’m once again suffering from a sticky flu. The throat is sore, the whole machine is coughing. I still hope to get well soon, but maybe I really have to visit a doctor before continuing with the workouts. What is even worse is…
Workouting
Hi, it seems I’m finally getting back to the right track and it gives a tremendous pleasure to be able to do tougher and tougher workouts. Now I only have to keep up with the good phase and go on until the Hannover marathon. I have also been thinking about,…
New SSL certificate
Hi there, I finally had some time to get an SSL certificate from an official provider. This time I trusted TheSSLMart and bought a RapidSSL certificate. It is affordable, supports most browsers and was relatively easy to install. Now I hope there won’t be any longer issues with accessing the site…
SSL Certificate
Hi, last night I noticed something I should have been aware of before this: at some point I had applied an SSL certificate at StartSSL where it was possible to get one for free; a fact that a personal web site maintainer evaluates high. Google, Mozilla, and probably other major browser vendors…
App with Meteor: fundamentals (with the example app Weight Watch)
Hi there, It’s again time for another app; this time on the JavaScript app development platform Meteor. Since I don’t want to trash the experiences gathered when implementing WeightWatch App for ConnectIQ, I decided to implement a similar app running in a web browser, with a responsive GUI, and fancy…
Gradually back to the training
Hey, After having spent a while with other topics, it’s now time for a running related blog post. As I have lately written, I’ve been very disappointed with my general health, but I hope things are finally proceeding to a right direction. This is now the second week I’m able…
Weight widget (part 4)
Hi there, Tonight I concentrated on the app GUI and the target was to get valid data parsed from the JSON (that eventually will come from Fitbit API), and to view the weight and the date of the latest measurement on the view labels. The function below is the callback that…
Weight widget (part 3)
Good evening, Back to the weight widget topic, and more specifically to the request that is made to the Fitbit API. I have struggled a couple of hours tonight with the method makeWebRequest, but finally I managed to get it running with the help from several web resources. I haven’t…
Weight widget (part 2)
Hello, in this second part of my blog posts about the weight widget for Connect IQ I will present the basic app structure and some fundamental methods with the target to reach the basic functionality for obtaining data from Fitbit and presenting it on the watch ui. In the first post I…
Weight widget (part 1)
Hi there, This will be another watch app based blog post; I want to continue with my lately arisen interest in developing apps for Garmin Connect IQ. This time I want to develop a watch widget that fetches data from an external source of data, i.e. the app uses the Fitbit…