I’ve tried to use Google’s Firebase with the Firebase Admin SDK in my C# project. The good news is that the Admin SDK is easy to use and all you need to do is call two methods. The authentication part is handled by an environment variable which points to some .json file which you download. The bad news is that the SDK depends on gRPC and the dotnet version of it doesn’t work well on the Raspberry Pi....
Hello everyone, A while ago I started working on a pet project called NucuCar. It’s a platform written in .NET for the Raspberry Pi in which I’m trying to implement various utility functions to create a complete piece of software that can be used to build a remote controlled car for the Pi. The project is open source and it can be found on GitHub: Since I didn’t buy a toy car and I don’t have much space in my apartment I was working only on the sensors module, which currently has support for the BME680 environment sensor and the CPU temperature sensor build in the Pi....
Hello, In this post I’m going to show you how quickly you can add a dark theme switch to your Vue.JS application. We’re going to start with a blank application. And then we’re going to create a dark-theme CSS file which we’re going to save in public/css/darktheme.css. This is how the application looks without any CSS. Now, we’re going to put the following code in darktheme.css: body { background-color: #2c3e50; } h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,p { color: #42b983; } We can test our theme by appending the following line in the of public/index....
I haven’t done any embedded development in a while and I was thinking to build myself a remote controlled toy car with video streaming. The project is going to take me a while. To build it I’m going to use C#. I’m already too familiar with Python and a little challenge doesn’t hurt. To interface with the hardware, I’m going to use the .Net Core IoT Libraries from Microsoft....
I had some fun this weekend messing around with Ghidra. Having such a powerful tool for free is truly a game changer. To start scripting in Ghidra, I downloaded the latest Eclipse for Java Developers Version: 2019-09 R (4.13.0), Ghidra and Open JDK, I believe any JDK version 11+ will work. After downloading the JDK, extract the zip, put it somewhere and modify your PATH and JAVA_HOME environment variables to point to it:...
Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay Hello, I don’t think I’d like to invest time and resources in this project anymore, I had fun programming it and learning about different aspects of game development and the Unity game engine. Making games involves a lot of hard work and I initially started this in order to escape from my ordinary programming activities, to do something different. Next, I think I’m going to shift my focus to some areas that will benefit the development of my career, like, trying to learn more about computer security and getting better at solving problems....
Hello everyone! Time for devlog number #2! In the last week, we’ve implemented transparent walls and the player animation state machine. Max continued designing sprites for the game and Andrei implemented the bomb animations and it is working on some enemies. The next week I will try to implement and finish the UpgradeManager, a Singleton class that shall handle the dispatch player powerups. The transparent walls were implemented using Raycasts the wall will cast a ray in the up direction and if it detects the Player collider it will reduce it’s alpha value to 50%, when the ray doesn’t collide with anything the alpha values goes up to 100%....
Hello Everyone! In this devlog I’ll try to keep you updated with the latest state of our game. Since we all have full-time jobs, we’ve been working on this game only on our free time. I’ve been implementing the world generation code and since I hadn’t any Sprites for the walls available, I’ve made my own ones in Aseprite. Using the Sprite from above I’ve created two prefabs in Unity and I’ve changed the colour of one prefab to brown, the generated world looks like this:...
I’ve been playing recently with ASP.Net Core and I’m developing a small Web API project in order to teach myself the framework. In still article I’ll explain how to use a Postgres database with Docker, in order to make your development experience much more enjoyable. Before moving on, please make sure that you’ve installed: Docker Docker-Compose First, create the docker-compose.yml file in your root directory of the project, the file should contain:...
The Silver Searcher is a code searching tool, it searches your entire code base in a very fast and efficient manner and it supports regex. I often use it when my IDE’s search capabilities are slow or can’t find what I’m looking for. You don’t have to use it exclusively, you can combine it with your IDE’s search capabilities to do your job faster, and most of the time it is also much easier to search using ag....