Author Archives: Thomas Guy

Where did Arduino get its name?

I wasn’t looking for this, but when I saw the name in the Wikipedia article, I looked up a guy named Ettore Arduino. It turns out this guy was an Italian airship engineer, but I don’t want to ruin it – the story is too cool to summarize. You’ll just have to go read itContinue reading “Where did Arduino get its name?”

Branching JavaScript for Different Browsers

I’ve been reading Pro JavaScript Design Patterns and I just got to try out a neat technique for dealing with the lexical differences between different browsers’ (I’m looking at you, IE) JavaScript implementations. The branching pattern allows you to create classes that execute different code based on whatever conditions you choose to examine. /** *Continue reading “Branching JavaScript for Different Browsers”