Programming – The Orange Garage https://theorangegarage.com Maker and Artist in Kent, Ohio Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:13:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 189143336 Scout Power Savings https://theorangegarage.com/scout-power-savings/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:09:56 +0000 https://theorangegarage.com/?p=917

Been working on power usage this week with excellent progress. Was able to get consumption low enough for 10ish days with a 6000 mah lithium battery.

Tested with a paging app that displays .bmp files in order. I put a freely distributable first aid pdf that I converted on the sdcard to view. It works great. I’ll do some better processing of the pdf to bmp prices, but it’s going to be included on Scout. I’ll publish my conversion process and you can put your own stuff on there too

]]> 917 Saving location between power outages https://theorangegarage.com/saving-location-between-power-outages/ Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:27:10 +0000 https://theorangegarage.com/?p=739 Scout can save your most recent location between power interruptions or off there is no gps signal. Scout displays your last known location centered on the map until you have gps signal again.

There are new “Mobile Atlas” maps to test as well as the 1st case draft.

More soon!

]]> 739 Refined breadcrumbs over a test map https://theorangegarage.com/refined-breadcrumbs-over-a-test-map/ Fri, 30 May 2025 19:55:20 +0000 https://theorangegarage.com/?p=676 Making breadcrumbs with random motion. If the random trail gets too close to an edge, it resets in the center of the screen.

]]> 676 More partial refresh with breadcrumbs https://theorangegarage.com/more-partial-refresh-with-breadcrumbs/ Thu, 29 May 2025 21:29:39 +0000 https://theorangegarage.com/?p=673 Testing what will become the breadcrumbs functionality over the map.

]]> 673 Testing partial refresh https://theorangegarage.com/testing-partial-refresh/ Thu, 29 May 2025 01:58:43 +0000 https://theorangegarage.com/?p=653 Doing some test code on the epaper display via Conrad’s Game of Life.

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