rbrodt, Author at Zarro Boogs Found!

Unity Games

Posted on December 20, 2021August 22, 2022 by rbrodt

During my engagement with Bourbon Street Video Productions (now known as “Meraki Creative”) building a general-purpose VR Training app, I developed a Proof of Concept for the USOPC Equestr... Read More

Purple heart and gold toes

Posted on December 17, 2021December 18, 2021 by rbrodt

I just put the last coat of polyurethane on my new coffee table and wanted to show it off. The colors in this purpleheart wood make it look surreal! The wood top of this table itself weighs in at abou... Read More

(A Piece for Assorted Lunatics)

Posted on December 2, 2021December 19, 2021 by rbrodt

I am a long time user of the open sourced eclipse Java IDE, starting with Callisto released in June of 2006. Since then the Eclipse Foundation has faithfully released a new version named, in alphabeti... Read More

Building Wall-E

Posted on December 1, 2021April 23, 2024 by rbrodt

Being a long-time R/C model airplane enthusiast, I naturally started fabricating WALL-E using model airplane building techniques; balsawood, plywood and glue. Some rust paint and metal effects, then t... Read More

Serving up some Raspberry Pi

Posted on December 1, 2021December 21, 2021 by rbrodt

I have been working on a webservice that exposes the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins and attached devices. The project, which I’m calling WS4Pi, is available on github here. Please check the README.md, w... Read More

Printing a better world – one bit of plastic at a time

Posted on November 5, 2021August 22, 2022 by rbrodt

I’ve been working on a robotics project (off and on) for the past 5 years, specifically this little guy here. It has proven to be quite a challenge because the animators that designed WALL-E wer... Read More

And….we’re back!

Posted on July 5, 2021December 21, 2021 by rbrodt

I thought I was ready to retire when I resigned my job at Red Hat, but I’ve been sucked back in to the melee that is software development. Watch this space for some fun new projects and tutorial... Read More

Open the pod bay doors Alexa!

Posted on December 15, 2020December 21, 2021 by rbrodt

We just bought an Alexa Show 8! I had a hard time justifying the cost to my wife but after a few months of getting to know Alexa, she doesn’t know how we ever managed to get by without one. The ... Read More

Uberfire – The Unanswered Questions: Part 1

Posted on May 19, 2016November 5, 2021 by rbrodt

Uber…what now? Yes, I know it sounds like an unfortunate incident on a California freeway, but Uberfire is actually a Rich Client Platform for building web applications. Based on the Google Web ... Read More

Uberfire – The Unanswered Questions: Part 2

Posted on May 18, 2016November 5, 2021 by rbrodt

And now presenting… As I mentioned in Part 1, my proposed model changes will necessarily cause some changes in the Presenter and View classes. Most of these are as a consequence of removing the ... Read More

Zarro Boogs Found!

Squashing bugs since 1981

Author: rbrodt