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Building Marlin 2.0.x for Ender 3 Pro – SKR V1.4 Turbo w/ TMC2209 Drivers

July 14, 2020July 14, 2020 Bill Thompson 3d printing, Ender 3 Pro, skr e3 mini, skr v1.4 turbo

FYI: I’m still in the process of learning about stepper motors, Marlin 2.0.x, and all the options that help me

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Ender 3 Pro – Upgrades and 3D Printing – Makers and Tinkerers

July 3, 2020May 8, 2021 Bill Thompson 3d printing, Creality, Ender 3, Ender 3 Pro

I didn’t think 3D Additive Printing would really capture my attention or inner maker/tinkerer needs at all. Printers after all

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Reactive RxSwift Xcode 9.3 and playgrounds!

April 14, 2018April 14, 2018 Bill Thompson

It took me some doing to come up with this solution. RxSwift 4.1.x and Xcode 9.3 at first didn’t seem

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Swift 4 UnsafeMutablePointer ObjCBool parameter, how do you use it in a closure?

February 16, 2018February 16, 2018 Bill Thompson

When enumerating the attributed string, there is a UnsafeMutablePointer<ObjCBool> parameter, and maybe you like me want to change it from

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QuadCopter electronics washed and coated with Conformal Coating

January 31, 2018January 31, 2018 Bill Thompson drone racing, electronics cleaning, FPV flying, IoT protection, OSD, protecting electronics

My last two newly built quads are ShenDrone Tweaker 5″ with Speedix 30Amp ESC, Omnibus F4 SD AIO (before ESC’s

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Functional Programming iOS 11 dev XCTest 

Improving WunderTDD with a higher order function, functional programming, and an extension

January 26, 2018 Bill Thompson 0 Comments functional programming, iOS 11.2, swift, Xcode 9.2

WunderTDD is my contribution to OpenSource with a MIT license, a project demonstration of getting Weather information from Weather Underground

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iOS 11 dev XCTest XCUITest 

XCUITest Swift 4 iOS 11 Xcode 9.2

January 25, 2018January 25, 2018 Bill Thompson 0 Comments iOS 11, swift 4, Xcode 9.2, XCUITest

A sample project with lots of working examples can help you navigate XCTest and XCUITest with the new Swift 4.

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iOS Wunderground Weather Test Driven Design with Swift 4 and XCTest

January 24, 2018January 25, 2018 Bill Thompson 0 Comments ios11, swift 4, Test Driven Design, unit test, weather underground, xctest

The idea of utilizing Test Driven Design when creating a project really excites me.   To have a robust app

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My experiences with power saving on an iPhone 6S+ (may also apply to iPhone 6/6S) and older devices

December 8, 2017December 8, 2017 Bill Thompson 1 Comment

I was writing this up for a friend, and I thought maybe others would benefit from this post. iPhone power

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SpriteKit a whole new layer of debug capability! View UI Hierarchy

November 7, 2017 Bill Thompson 3 Comments bCandied, visual ui debugger, xcode9

I knew about the UI Hierarchy for normal User Interface views, I just didn’t know I could use it with

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