Last week, I decided to sell my ‘old’ Apple iPad in favor of an Apple iPad 2. While I love the performance enhancements and size reduction of the newer model, I was shocked the first time I rebooted the device. As soon as the screen went to black, there was massive screen bleeding along the [...]

In early January, I blogged about Getting my iPad ready for FIRST robotics season.  It’s now enough later to revisit that and see how things worked out. Overall, things have gone better than expected.  For the most part, the internet has been available making searching the internet easy. Gmail Now that I’m relying on the [...]

Last year, I started volunteering as a programming mentor to the Stuy Pulse FIRST robotics team.  Since kickoff was yesterday, I set up my iPad today for this season.  At least the beginning of it; I’m sure I’ll have more ideas as the season goes on. Background The internet isn’t too reliable in a New [...]