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Research: Building Schrödingers box
The problem We travel. We have a cat. The cat is old. The cat can not come with us in most of all cases. We currently have no-one to take care of the cat when we are gone. As the cat is old, she can die while we are gone. We want to know if […]
Experiments with Touch – Bigscreen Android with 23 inch Resistive Touch Panel
October 5, 2011
Inspired by the allegedly Windows Android x86 demo with a 23 inch multi-touch screen by Martin Drashkov (see second video below), I decided to give my own version a spin. [Edit: Oct 16, 2011] One of the readers of Hack a Day pointed out that a 23 inch Touch panel could not be found. I guess […]
The search for hardware below 100 euro – Android stuff keeps dropping in price
August 26, 2011
The search for hardware below the 100 euro price tag When you build stuff that needs some kind of computing power beyond the 20 euro PLC/Arduino scope, Android devices might be your first weapon of choice. When I started to focus my attention on Android in 2010, the cheapest hardware you could find where the […]
New Roomware server coming up
May 5, 2011
Yesterday I have been cooking up the new infrastructure for the new “Roomware Socket Server”. Where the old setup was “cloud based” meaning it could be anywhere on any IP address on the web, I found that had a lot of issues regarding ease of setup. What was wrong with the old approach? When I […]
Hacking away with Android pt 8 – Android, Ardruino and low cost dual core ARM Cortex A9 boards
March 21, 2011
If you wanted to do hardware hacking with Android and Arduino, the process was expensive, limited and/or painful Until the beginning of 2011 the only ways to connect an Android phone to Arduino was by: Rooting your phone, installing a CyagenMod and connect the Arduino to the serial port of the phone. However, this only […]
Slowly moving things together – the long tail of Beyond the Keyboard
March 14, 2011
This blog started as a alternative to my usual work: programming stuff in Flash. The first post covered “Building a pressure sensitive Touch Surface” and successive posts investigated QR codes, Android phones, Android hardware and hacking hardware with the Android OS. Previous to that I looked at using AR toolkit in Flash (FLARtoolkit) to build […]
Hacking away with Android pt 7 – Februari 2011 overview on what you can- and can not do with Android (devices)
February 11, 2011
Although Android tablets are offered for Netbook and Notebook prices and perceived to be the “replacement” for Netbooks (like apparently Acer is assuming), Android tablets are far from “there”. As it its really hard to find anything about where we are right now with Android and where each tablet could be placed related to the […]
Hacking away with Android pt 6 – Froyo and Flash 10.1 on Archos
December 31, 2010
At this point in time (end of december 2010) the Archos Froyo firmware release does NOT yet come with Flash 10.1. There is a simple workarounds for that. So lets review: Steps Install Froyo / Android 2.2 on your Archos (if not done yet) – by connecting your Archos device to your computer via USB […]
Hacking away with Android pt 5 – insides of the Archos 32 and photos of LCD screens
November 18, 2010
At the beginning of November 2010 I dropped my Archos 32. Due to the impact the power switch was dislodged. As the warranty is usually only valid for hardware failure due to construction faults I decided to take it apart. [Update, April 2011] It seems I am not the only one with this issue. If […]
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Beyond the keyboard 
December 4, 2011
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