Off to the Intel Hackathon

Intel IoT Hackathon

Wednesday, Feb 11, 2015, 9:00 AM

Startup Hall
1100 Northeast Campus Parkway, #200 Seattle, WA

0 Hackers Went

Event details, courtesy of Rex St. John, Intel’s IoT evangelist:Important: You *MUST* register here to get your *free* Intel Edison Dev Kit!You are invited to join Intel to participate in a one-of-a-kind Seattle hackathon with Intel Edison at the SoDo Makerspace. Sign up as soon as possible, spaces are highly limited. There will be cash prizes an…

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Pods issues

I have used Pods.io for easy handling of custom post types for WordPress. It makes it easy for other users to change how the content is displayed and create new post types by using a fairly well designed GUI. I can edit the page templates from the Pods Admin dashboard and I don’t get confusing looks when I try and explain the fundamentals of the register_post_type() function.

All in all, Pods has just made it easy for me to customize WordPress and make it easy for a basic user to maintain. However, they have started to get a bit sloppy with documentation for the last few updates. This came as a shock to me when suddenly the educational content on my Hack-E-Bot website was not showing up correctly.
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i2c bus error with LED marix on RasPi

This is mostly for myself but I figured I would post it here as well. After putting together and setting up my new 8×8 bi-color LED matrix and i2c control PCB from Adafruit, I got a script error saying “Error accessing 0x70: Check your I2C address”. When I run sudo i2cdetect -y 0, I get nothing, but the matrix is detected when I run sudo i2cdetect -y 1.

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