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Implicit usings in .NET MAUI

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.NET MAUI Preview 11 now uses implicit usings to reduce the number of using statements you need to specify at the top of each file. For more information abou...

Invoke platform code in .NET MAUI

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Xamarin.Forms has the DependencyService class, which is a service locator that enables apps to invoke native platform functionality from cross-platform code....

Getting FastLED and ArduinoBLE to co-operate

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I recently finished building an Arduino-driven Nixie tube device, that I’ve called Fermenixie, which uses the FastLED library to control the RGB LEDs that ac...

Get data from a tilt hydrometer on an Arduino

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A tilt hydrometer is a submersible thermometer and hydrometer for monitoring fermentation. It’s a Bluetooth LE device that reports data via the iBeacon proto...

Adventures in ARKit - image detection

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In my previous blog post I discussed how to display a 3D model in a scene. In this blog I’ll discuss how to perform image detection in a scene. Specifically,...