Arduino, RFID and AS3
As part of a mini side project I’ve been working on lately I wanted to get a desktop Adobe Air application reading RFID tags with Arduino. I’m by no means an expert at all this, but I learnt a lot while doing this so I thought I’d pass the knowledge on.
5 examples of circular website navigation
Banksy once said “Most things look better when you put them in a circle”, but he probably wasn’t thinking about website navigation when he did. Its rare to see a menu based on a circle and for good reason, they tend not to be very user friendly (especially on a website that needs to be accessible) and often take up too much room on a page. Making content fit around them (and look good) can be a pain. That said it doesn’t mean there aren’t any good examples of circular navigation.
Great videos from the internets 1
I watch a lot of videos online and I’d like to share the good ones with you guys. I’ll try post new videos on a regular basis, but if I see no good videos then I wont post, only the good ones make it here!
Nerd Test for Android
I’ve finished my new Nerd Test app and its in the Android Marketplace. Its currently only on Android but I hope to get it onto iOS once I’ve added all the features on my list.
When making this blog I came across an issue when viewing my site on the iPad. Gaps between background images were appearing, different gaps at different zoom levels. The issue is with the way iOS rescales all the elements on the page to fit the smaller screen. When it does this it often leaves a 1 pixel gaps between divs.
The fix is to add -1px to the margin where the lines are appearing, that way the divs overlap slightly. So in my case I needed to add -1px to the top margins:
margin-top: -1px;
Hope that helps!
Chalkboard Clock
In January I made a little Android app called Chalkboard Clock. I made it for 2 reasons, firstly I wanted to know the process for getting an app to market and I also wanted to test Air for Android, see its performance.
My name is Steve Gardner and I'm a Lead Front End Developer at Jigsaw.
I work with stuff like Flash and HTML5 to make things like games, mobile apps and websites. I also occasionally play around with Arduino.
This blog serves no real purpose except to spread joy and happiness to every single human being on the planet and, on occasion, discuss things I make and find on the internet.
