Last week, I was working on a C++ application on a remote machine in the cloud, and I didn't want to install all the compiling and debugging tools/libraries/dependencies on the host OS, but I wanted to have all of them in a container. I found that VSCode has the capability to target a container for application building and/or debugging :).

This article is a documentation for me that I will use every time that I need to compile a C++ application. The steps are divided in three main groups:

• You need to build a Docker image with the tools/dependencies/libraries etc.. A container will be started...

Last year, I bought a Timeular tracker and I've been using it the past months to check the time I spent on my activities and plan my days better. Furthermore, on work-from-home days, it's hard to track how many hours I work per day, and the tracker helps me a lot with this! Therefore, I still recommend it.

I also wrote an article about the tracker and the Timeular application: Timeular: Tracking your time using an Octahedron. Both work great on Windows, Mac OS, and Android....

This time I need your HELP! As you may know, I am working at Finealyze, a start-up from Hanover and spin-off from the Leibniz University Hanover.

We were selected to be part of the Digital FUTUREcongress 2020 in Frankfurt and we are nominated for the start-up award!

And this is where you come in: I need you to vote for us under this link: Start-Up Award on 18.02.2020 DIGITAL Future Congress.

1. Go to this link,
2. Search for Finealyze GmbH,
3. Click on the select box,
4. Click on vote! :)

VOTE for Finealyze GmbH!

You can select up to 3 start-ups!

To win this competition means a lot to us! To me pe...

The following video summarizes the project highlights of 2019! Most of them are implemented using MicroPython on ESP32 and Python on Raspberry/Orange Pi.

The flying video was recorded with a Nexus 5X mounted on the Zhiyun Smooth 4. In the video-edition process, software stabilization was only used on the vertical axis. The Zhiyun Smooth 4 smoothed the horiz...

Today is Singles' Day or "Guanggun Jie" in Chinese, which is a popular shopping festival among young Chinese people, who celebrate their pride of being single! Thus, I got some discount codes from Banggood for Today and I'm publishing them here:

DISCOUNT CODES

This section is new in LeMaRiva|Tech and I will update it every day with new discount codes! I receive a list every day with new codes and I will use some analytics to select the best offers for you and automatically publish them there. Stay tuned!

Banggood is celebrating its 13th anniversary by launching a grand sales that takes place between the dates August 27th and September 18th (my birthday! :)).

Fig. 1: Banggood's 13th anniversary image on an E-ink screen (tutorial)

DISCOUNT CODES

Banggood, founded in 2006 and located in Guangzhou, is the fourth largest international e-commerce retailer in China. By running its website www.banggood.com and smartphone applications, Banggood sells more than 500,000 types of products to the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Australia, Russia, Japan and ma...

This is a misc. small article. Two month ago, I bought on Banggood two articles that I wanted to show you, but this time, these are not connected to an application, code or a detailed product review. This is only a misc. article to describe my purchase: The Xiaomi Wowstick Screw Driver and the TTGO ESP32 WROVER with 8MB PSRAM.

Hardware

Xiaomi Wowstick

If you are looking for a very small electric screw driver, then the Xiaomi Wowstick is an option for you. It in...

First of all, this article is a product review which was/is not supported by Timeular GmbH or similar. I bought the product two weeks ago, because I wanted to test it. I missed out the Kickstarter campaign (2016) and the regular price for the octahedron was too expensive for me.

Fig. 1: Timeular application

This summer, the tracker is on sale with up to 50% discount and I bought the basic plan. I got an octahedron -called tracker- which connects to the Timeular application (Mac, Win...

This is just another small post. I was quite busy the last weeks, and here is why:

Next week (from April 1st to April 5th), I'll be at the Hanover Fair 2019.

I am with our start-up fine|alyze presenting solutions for IIoT and data analytics. If you want to meet me in person, just come to the Hall 16, Stand D38(1) -5G Arena-.

We are collecting and analyzing the data produced by a "model factory" of VWN, and presenting live results of our models.

Click here to find the map!

Just a small post. I've migrated the blog from Pagekit CMS to OctoberCMS. Pagekit was a nice CMS, but unfortunately the project is almost dead, so I've decided to migrate to OctoberCMS.

Why I didn't choose Wordpress? Well, I hate Wordpress. I've tried a lot, but everytime I found that it was not for me.

So, I have a ToDo for you: If you find something that it is not working, please use the contact formular or the comment section below to inform me! I've checked everything, but I've migrated almost 100 pages (articles, static pages etc.) and all the meta information and probably I forgot some...

Unboxing Google AIY Vision Kit picked up at Target Manhattan Herald Square -New York!- (Target.com) . Also for the fans of Google AIY Voice Kit keep watching! If anyone made the same experience, please advise!

@Target: It will be great to hear from you!
@Google: Congratulations on your choice of business partner!

If you are going to buy something in this shop, please double check the package and the contain before you leave the shop!

I got you! Please stop trying to hack my website! It's just a small blog! You are ruining my stats! ;)

Sorry to the other users!, but the last two weeks, someone was using the cloud system ofOnline SAS to try to hack my website. Yes, you heard that right! Someone is trying to hack this small blog! and I can tell you: That's illegal! ;) In the terms and conditions of Online SAS that is NOT allowed! ;P

Are Paris IP-addresses going to be the next Nigeria IP-addresses? abuseipdb.com has a lot of Paris IP-addresses declared as risky!

Leave a comment, if you have more info, and if you are the guy tr...

I have a Nexus 5X or I had a working Nexus 5X, and last week it turned black and has finally bootlooped! I bought it from Google Store, so I decided to contact Google. I knew that the warranty was expired on Dec. 2017 (Google repeated it), but this is a common problem of the Nexus 5X, so I thought that maybe I have a chance! But NO! The support was nice, but the solution was to contact LG. A death path! Meaning: No goodwill from Google! Nothing! I contacted LG, and the solution was to send the phone to this address:

DUX Logistics & Tech Services GmbH, Neben dem Mühlweg 20, 65474 Bischofsheim ...

I am really happy to inform you that I will be at the Hannover Fair 2018. The Institute of Mechatronic Systems will be represented by our research group "Integrated Systems and Machine Learning" in the Hall 2 on Stand B08 and we will be presenting solutions for the advancing digitization of industrial production.

The Hannover Fair 2018 takes place between Apr 23, 2018 and Apr 27, 2018 in Hannover.

For more info, click here:

You find the map below:

I am writing this post as a tutorial or a 'keep' note for myself, but I think it could be interesting for a lot of people. At work I'm using a Latitude Dell Laptop with dual boot (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Windows 10). The laptop has a SD card reader. Usually I work under Ubuntu while I am programming, and the SD card reader support is broken! But typing the following on a terminal, makes it works again:

sudo rmmod sdhci_pci sdhci_acpi sdhci
sudo modprobe sdhci debug_quirks2="0x10000"
sudo modprobe sdhci_pci sdhci_acpi sdhci

It seems to be a problem since Linux kernel version 4.1.8. A bug report he...