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ARM and the long tail of Acorns RISC computers
Right now, ARM is maybe one of the best, most silent and most successful challengers of Intel’s x86 dominance. If you would ask me: “who the fuck is ARM?” I would not blame you. As they have been a very modest builder of dominance in the mobile world and do not advertise: “ARM Inside” on […]
The economics of “Free” as in: you do not have to pay to use it – part 1
January 3, 2011
There are many aspects on this topic, so there will be more articles to follow over times. Going through PostgreSQL the other day, learning that it is a community driven development process, where nobody gets paid from any commercial source triggered an old thought I did not put down yet here. The balance Economics are […]
“There really isn’t much of a “tablet” market”
January 1, 2011
On December 31 Marco Arment gave his opinion on the tablet market as he sees it. The bottom line as I read it: There is not much of a tablet market. The devices have no clear use case and except for Apple – who delivered a good and solid product with the iPad – what […]
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 […]
Hacking away with Android pt 4 – Researching options to attach sensors and devices to your Android
November 1, 2010
I have been doing some research on attaching sensors to the Android devices in the past days. I have not tested or build solutions yet with this information. That will be one of the next steps. Purposes of this series This series of articles is written with the following uses of Android Devices in mind: […]
Roomware, tablets, Android, phones and serial connections
September 25, 2010
The Archos 7 Android tablet, about 140 to 150 euro in the store Going serial Up until now I thought serial connections were going to be – at least – challenge on the Android platform. Android does – by default – not support much USB connectivity (as one of many examples). Using some hacks you […]
Android – more thant just phones
July 18, 2010
Investigating the possibilities of both the Android phones and the Android Tablet PC's, I have started to look into: 1. Connecting USB devices to the Droid 2. Connecting an external display to the Droid
Using an Android phone as a Roomware Server
June 8, 2010
By: Peter Kaptein, June 8, 2010 Yesterday another thought crossed my mind, thinking about Roomware. It is a process of adding up different insights. Reducing energy use One of the biggest issues on running local installations of Roomware is energy-consumption. Say you have a house monitored by different sensors, with one of the purposes to […]
Sending messages with the Roomware Socket Server
May 8, 2010
By Peter Kaptein The Roomware Socket Server Message Protocol is a medium-weight protocol to send messages from one thing to another. Medium weight? Light weight messages are devoid of fluff. They are optimized to send data from “A” to “B” in the most compact form. Heavy weight messages contain a lot of extra meta-data. XML […]
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Beyond the keyboard 
January 9, 2011
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