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- Dec 19 2014
Controlling the RobotsConf Sumobot with Electric Imp & Johnny-Five
In the previous article, I walked through inventory, preparation, calibration and assembly of the SumoBot Kit that was provided to all attendees of this year’s RobotsConf. In this article, I’m going introduce a simple program to for controlling the assembled SumoBot with an Electric Imp. This entire article will assume that you have already read […]
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Controlling the RobotsConf Sumobot with Electric Imp & Johnny-Five - Dec 19 2014
Assembling and Preparing the RobotsConf Sumobot with Johnny-Five
At this year’s RobotsConf, the theme of the event was “Everyone Builds a Robot”. Creator and curator Chris Williams facilitated this by including a SumoBot Kit (designed and produced by Paweł Szymczykowski) and an ARDX Starter Kit for Arduino in the “swag bag” that every attendee received at registration. The bag also included an Arduino […]
Continue ReadingAssembling and Preparing the RobotsConf Sumobot with Johnny-Five - Dec 15 2014
Welcome Kassandra Perch
We have been perched on the edge of our seats waiting to announce our newest Bocouper: Kassandra Perch! Kassandra hails from Austin and joins us most recently from RetailMeNot, where she worked on UI engineering and developer evangelism. She’s also active in NodeBots, contributing projects and events for the community, all while sporting a number […]
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- Dec 08 2014
Npm By Numbers, an Analysis and Visualization of the npm Ecosystem
Many of us use npm on a daily basis to manage our server-side and client-side dependencies, but do we know what goes on behind the scenes? What does the npm ecosystem look like from 10,000 feet? We set out to answer some of those questions in September of this year and are really excited to […]
Continue ReadingNpm By Numbers, an Analysis and Visualization of the npm Ecosystem - Dec 01 2014
Welcome Brian J Brennan
As we return from the holiday weekend, we’re giving thanks for the newest addition to the Bocoup team: Brian J Brennan! Brian hails from New York City and joins us from the Mozilla Foundation, where he spent the last 3.916 years spearheading the Open Badges initiative and releasing a veritable cornucopia of open source libraries. […]
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- Nov 25 2014
What’s in a Function Name?
Every time I contribute to JSHint, I learn a little more about JavaScript. My most recent fantastical knowledge adventure led me to the behavior of the name attribute of function objects. JSHint has an interesting but lesser-known feature: code analysis reports. When used programatically, JSHint will return an object with some data about the code […]
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- Nov 11 2014
The Responsive Images Community Group: What Comes Next
The RICG’s work is starting to wind down, but we’re just getting started at the same time. We’re a weird sort of web standards organization. We’re nebulous by design: a rallying point for anyone that wants to get involved in the kinds of new standards that most impact their daily work. We aim to prevent […]
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- Oct 27 2014
Intel Galileo: Autonomous Navigation Rover with JavaScript
Earlier this year, I published an article that announced support for running Johnny-Five programs directly from an Intel Galileo Generation 2 single board computer. Since then, a lot of work has gone into fine tuning Galileo-IO, including a complete internal redesign that takes advantage of native I/O bindings and processing capability improvements whenever possible. Over […]
Continue ReadingIntel Galileo: Autonomous Navigation Rover with JavaScript - Oct 15 2014
A Day at the Races: Avoiding Random Failures in Selenium UI Tests
Selenium is an indispensable tool for developing web applications. It allows developers to write test scripts that control real browsers and ensure their applications behave in the way that users expect. Tests like these make software development much more pleasant–developers can have much greater certainty that their application is functioning correctly even after large refactoring […]
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- Sep 29 2014
Au Revoir Gare du Nord
Last year, we excitedly announced the development of Bocoup’s new world headquarters in North Station. We finished a gorgeous renevation of our bullpen in February and immediately set to work on our community space, when suddenly we hit a snag: fire suppression. We spent much of this year renting hotel ballrooms and meeting rooms and […]
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