DevJoe Software Development

I have been attending the George electronics club and have been really enjoying it.
Anyone living in the George/Garden Route area should really attend this. We have a huge variety of people attending from all ages, and we are planning to build a couple of robots.
What I will be doing is the software side of things. MY favourite platform is Arduino, as it is really easy to program chips via a bootloader, and programming it with ease. This is great for beginners that have little programming experience.

I have been doing some testing during the past few days and will be explaining what I did. Here’s my finished result:

This was achieved simply with a couple of variables sent to a the Google Charts static API. It generates the image and sends it to my script. the script then displays the image, with the header of image/png. This may seem complex at first, but it is very simple. Google’s API for the image used in the product is the following:
http://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chst=d_bubble_icon_texts_big&chld=glyphish_user|bb|008888|FFFF88|Hello+World|
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