Promising low-cost embedded hardware platformJanuary 1st, 2012Last month i noticed a new promising concept for a low-cost embedded hardware platform which is called Raspberry PI. The designers of the platform try to build a low-cost, card size embedded device which should cost around 25 USD. The platform should be the future standard for low-cost embedded devices which can deliver HD output on TV. The device is quite powerful and offers a 700Mhz ARM CPU with Ethernet, Hardware IO, Audio and HD Video capabilities.
 image sources: Raspberry PI WindowsMobile on AndroidJuly 24th, 2011Today i tested an Android VNC viewer software on my HTC Magic phone in order to control my Windows Mobile HTC Jade mobile phone over WLAN. I video documented this nice experiment here: Flying single rotor SphereJuly 17th, 2011Japanese military developers implemented a flying sphere that tumbles through the air and is specialized for indoor navigation. This is really a nice alternative design compared to common quadcopers or helicopters. I wonder how they implemented the navigation just with one rotor and several control surfaces that direct the air flow. By the way here is another video of a rc-model with identical simplistic single rotor design. Video New MobileVNC Server Version 1.5June 10th, 2011I am proud to present a new, bugfixed version 1.5 of the MobileVNC server software. This version addressed mainly following flaws:
The new version 1.5 can be downloaded from here: Mobile VNC 1.5 for Windows CEMay 18th, 2011This video shows the new version of MobileVNC which allows the remote control of Windows Mobile and Windows CE based devices with standard VNC viewers. Automation of Windows Mobile and CE devicesMay 18th, 2011The video shows how to automate the control of Windows Mobile and Windows CE based devices with T-Plan Robot and a Mobile VNC server. Google MapView WidgetJanuary 27th, 2011Within this article i explain the integration of the Google MapView Widget within a custom Android application. Some preconditions have to be met to successfully run this GUI Widget within your Android application. The MapView Widget is quite a powerful and interesting control which is able to enrich every location and context-based mobile application. You can find this small turtorial here. Energy@TVJanuary 26th, 2011Recently Samsung started a public challenge for creating Apps for their new generation TV devices. The ‘Free your TV challenge’ (US challenge) and the ‘Smart TV Challenge’ which represents the european TV App challenge. A week ago the challenge was closed and now we can see the list of Apps that succeeded the verification process. This list of TV Apps contains some quite interesting Apps that range from entertainment to home control. Here is an example for a concept App that should allow the control of your home heating and solar panel in the near future, which i personally find really interesting Energy@TV Article: Future Mobile AdvertisingJanuary 11th, 2011Recently i added mobile advertising to one of my Android applications and i wrote a short article about the experiences i made during this process. For my example i used the popular Admob technology, which lead to a quite nice solution. Windows Mobile Timed CameraNovember 26th, 2010Last time i had to monitor a scene for a long period of time. So i coded a tiny tool for a very simple automatic camera triggering on Windows Mobile based devices. According to the fact that this feature is not present on many HTC Windows Mobile phones i added this feature. The approach here is to use the original camera application and to fake the users hardware button press to take interval photos instead of capturing the directx based output. The directx based camera capture only offers a very limited resolution (320×240) while this user input fake approach offers the full camera resolution. |
