Android Studio Cannot Resolve Symbol R

I just got this problem today when I opened an Android project with Android Studio. Basically, anywhere there’s a reference to R, for example R.layout.footer_view, Android Studio will complain that it cannot resolve symbol R. The fix is surprisingly easy. All I need to do was running Gradle clean and Gradle build. Ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17054000/cannot-resolve-symbol-r-android-studio

November 25, 2014 · 1 min · 54 words · kenno

Installing Linux Mint 17 on Virtualbox

You may or may not have problem installing Linux Mint 17 on VirtualBox depending on the setting of your Virtualbox VM. I had this problem and took me a while to fix it. Basically, ensure that you set the system memory of your VM to be larger than 512MB, otherwise you might see black screen after booting your VM from the Mint DVD installation. Once the installation is finished, feel free to reduce the VM’s system memory to 512MB or smaller.

October 21, 2014 · 1 min · 81 words · kenno

Progamming Arduino using USBasp on Ubuntu

My USBAsp dongle arrived from China. It’s connected to the ISCP pins on an Arduino Nano, and also plugged to a computer via USB connection. According to lots of intructions on the Internet, to upload a sketch to an Arduino, we need to do the following steps: Tools -> Programmer -> USBasp File -> Upload Using Programmer Unfortunatly, it did not work for me. Here is the error message produced by Arduino IDE: ...

September 13, 2014 · 1 min · 174 words · kenno

Windows 7 Boot Error with MpFilter.sys corrupted

After doing patch-Tuesday update yesterday, my Windows 7 no longer booted. This is the second time it happened. Last time I fixed it, didn’t get to document and it took me a while to figure out how I did it. This version of Windows is Windows 7 Professional 32-bit. After some digging, MpFilter.sys is Microsoft Malware Protection Minifilter, which is a part of Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). MSE is installed on my Windows 7 machine. ...

September 11, 2014 · 1 min · 125 words · kenno

Arduino improving nRF24L01+ reliability

In the past few weeks, I noticed that data transmitting from one of sensor nodes got dropped dramatically. This sensor node is an Arduino Micro using nRF24L01+ as the transmitter. Well, it’s supposed to send data to the base station once every 30 seconds; however the transmitting recurrence time exceeded 2 minutes. By default the transmitting rate is at 1 Mb/s, so I dropped it to 250 Kb/s to see if had any better improvement. It didn’t help. ...

August 12, 2014 · 1 min · 205 words · kenno