FROM THE LAB
Mark Furland
Group Lab Day – Autonomous RC Cars
June 14, 2023This month we hosted our third “Engineering Week” at Tome where we encourage those who are able to join in-person in the office for a number of group activities. During...
Phil Danne
Capture the Owls!
December 22, 2022December 2022 hosted our second ever “Engineering Week” at Tome where we encourage those who are able to join physically in the office for a number of group activities. We...
Eric Kratz
Collision Prediction with Native Kotlin
November 4, 2022Kotlin is now the preferred language for Android development. The primary design is to compile bytecode for the Java virtual machine, however, it also allows programs to be compiled to...
Jeremiah James
Sugar Glider
August 25, 2022Diabetes is annoying and according to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, type 1 diabetes (T1D) affects 1.6 millions Americans, with roughly 64,000 new cases each year. T1D is an autoimmune...
Brian Good
Song of the Run
June 24, 2022My friends and I who run use an app called Strava to share our runs and other workouts with each other. A common caption for running posts is your “Song...
Joe Maples
Customizing Android’s SystemUI
May 18, 2022Last month I wrote a bit about my work on porting Android 12 to the PineNote, an open source E-Ink tablet. Since then I’ve gotten Android booting and running pretty...
Joe Maples
Porting Android 12 to the PineNote
April 18, 2022A few weeks ago, I ordered a PineNote from Pine64. Pine64 is an organization that designs and produces open source hardware, and the PineNote is their first venture into E-Ink...
Phil Danne
Building a “Complex” Metronome
February 9, 2022Even though my first love in music was the stripped-back hard rock bands of the 1990s, I was exposed to more complex compositions during my 5th hour Symphony Band class...
Rich Rarey
Senior Software Engineer and Bluetooth SME
Flying Tome Drones in the DC Flight Restricted Zone (Legally!)
January 5, 2022Want to fly a drone, professionally and legally, in one of the most security-sensitive airspace in the U.S. ? It can be done but requires time and patience to pass...
Colin Quinn
Solidity and Ethereum
October 25, 2021Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain driven cryptocurrency, very similar to Bitcoin but with a few very key differences. Ethereum stands out from similar currencies due to its open source nature...