Google Tango Hackathon in Timisoara
Some impressions on the Google Tango Hackathon held in Timisoara in April 2014. See one of the Winner projects, the Camera 3D and some insight on the new device from Google.
Software security in Shareware
Applications released as unlockable trial versions are vulnerable. Learn how to protect your work by embedding bulletproof security techniques.
Virtual Reality App Controls Real household objects
You can use your smartphone (android/iphone) to control electrical equipment inside your home. See how.
Posted inElectronics Hardware Nuclear Research
uRADMonitor – Unusual Background Radiation Reports – Explained
This page has been created to report unusual activity (radiation, temperature, humidity, luminosity, barometric pressure), as recorded by the uRADMonitor, including all the debug data to support the results. I cannot guarantee the measurement precision, I merely present the data recorded by the instruments.
Posted inElectronics Hardware Nuclear Research
uRADMonitor – Online Radiation monitoring station
I've developed the uRADMonitor as an Environmental Radiation Surveillance automated monitoring device. Data is gathered in real time, 24/7, and is exported via the Internet to a database online. The data is available in customizable charts for analysis.
Anoto Bluetooth Digital Pen on Android OS
A digital pen solution for Android OS.
Android Native Screen capture application using the Framebuffer
Learn how to do a programmatic screen capture on Android, using the framebuffer and some native C code. See how to correctly save a BMP file.
Android Bluetooth controlled robot – Part 1
Learn to connect a bluetooth module to an ATMega micro controller via the UART serial interface and even further, discover it using a bluetooth enabled Android phone. The 9600bps serial link established, can than be used to exchange data: read sensors or control the robot.
Posted inResearch Software Windows Mobile
WinCE Broadcom stack FindAttribute SDP_DISC_ATTTR_VAL 256Bytes limit
See the real limit for receiving a SDP bluetooth device attribute in the SDP_DISC_ATTTR_VAL structure for the Broadcom Bluetooth Stack.
Linear Pseudorandom number generator (PRNG)
Understand what a random number is , how important the chaos is, and how to understand a sequence of numbers that seems to have no meaning.
CreateProcess, GetExitCodeProcess and application crash
When using CreateProcess win32 API make sure the lpCommandLine is not a constant or your application can crash.
Posted inElectronics Hardware Research Robotics Software
First Atmega8 bot – (Arduino board)
An article about a differential Arduino robot by Rodrigo Nascimento Hernandez
Posted inAndroid Electronics Hardware Research
ATmega8 and Hall Sensor A1302
Atmega8 and an A1302 Hall Sensor for sensing the magnetic fields in close proximity.
Posted inHardware Research Robotics Software Windows Mobile
Perseus 3 Advanced Robot (using Windows Mobile)
Perseus 3, a 4x4 advanced robot featuring an Atmega8 for sensor interfacing and motor control, and a I-mate SP5 smartphone (200MHz) running Windows Mobile 6.0 as robot's brain. Small weight, powerful trust, and lots of features including WLAN, Bluetooth, Camera, Speaker, Phone-interface (GPRS, 3G), Microphone (for voice commands) and more.
Posted inElectronics Hardware Research Robotics Software
ARA – differential robot platform
A new differential robot platform, with strong gear motors and low power consumption.
Aspell word lists / dictionaries for several languages
How to extract huge word lists for most languages, using the Aspell dictionaries.
Posted inAndroid Research Software Windows Mobile
Android C native development – take full control!
An useful post on how to use gcc and the android toolchain to produce native C applications for the google android.
Posted inElectronics Hardware Research Robotics Software
Robo Evolution – how to build a better robot
A not-so-short article on various robot platforms I've experimented with. See my latest designs, and learn about my findings on robotics.
Posted inElectronics Hardware Research Software Windows Mobile
Win Mobile Tech Seminar in Lisbon, 11-12 March, 2009
A few words on the Windows Mobile Seminar held in Lisbon, Portugal, during 11-12 March 2009.
As a speaker at this seminar, I've presented a Voice Command Recognition system for Windows Mobile, in my topic named "Extending your Smartphone's functionality".
Voice command recognition
A video presentation of a voice command recognition software.
Posted inResearch Windows Mobile
Hacking a Mesada GPS Unit
An article about adding extra bluetooth functionality on a gps unit running wince 5.0