How-to: Install Ubuntu on Galaxy Tab 10.1
Max over at GalaxyTabHacks.com runs through installing Ubuntu on a Galaxy 10.1 alongside Android OS (Honeycomb) in this step-by-step video.
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MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Check out the cream of the crop submitted to the MAKE Flickr pool this week!
Read your text messages while you play games on a Nexus One
follower, the creator of the Handbag “Android Arduino Accessorizer”, wrote in with this excellent use of Android’s Open Accessory API, Arduino, and an LCD screen: The Android App is invisible and starts automatically when you connect the accessory. (You probably need to approve the running of the application within a few seconds or the accessory […]
Autodesk Inventor Publisher Viewer for Android
Having good documentation really helps out when you’re assembling or repairing something of significant complexity. Now that access to a smartphone or tablet is becoming more commonplace we’re starting to see better documentation tools hit the market. Take for instance the newly released Autodesk Inventor Publisher Viewer for Android. Business looking to publish interactive 3D […]
Using AR to Actuate a Second Head
I first met my now-friend Thomas Edwards at an Artomatic opening (DC’s annual art free-for-all). He had an awesome piece, called Sycophant. It was a mannequin head on a track that ran along a wall in a hallway, detecting and following people, and saying things like: “I love your hair,” “Have you lost weight?,” and my favorite, “I want to lick you.”
“Light Field” Imaging, Lytro, and the Future of Digital Photos
Rob’s recent post over at Boing Boing drew my attention to Ren Ng’s startup, Lytra, which is developing a digital imaging technology that requires no moving parts to focus an image at any depth of field–even infinite. It’s called “light field” photography, and, besides eliminating failure-prone moving assemblies from cameras, it will let you refocus your pictures however you want, as many times as you want, after they’ve already been taken.
Zen Button
Pete Prodoehl needed a button. A button with a USB connection that would emulate a single keypress. He’s built two now. They’re dead simple. I have no particular need for such a button, but this photo is making me itch to build one of my own.
