ArduinoDroid – Arduino IDE for Android

• open/edit arduino sketches
• example sketches and libraries included
• code syntax highlighting
• compile sketches (no root required)
• upload sketches (FTDI-based boards (Duemilanove, Diecimila) and Uno are supported at this time only, android devices with USB-host support required)
• works offline (internet connection is not required)

Light Painting: “The clean way to draw on your friends” –

Mother New York approached Red Paper Heart to create an application that combined LG phones and projections at the Virgin Free Fest in Baltimore, MD. They wanted to create an experience inside a giant inflatable cube where attendees could draw on their friends with digital color and light. To this we said, “Hell yes.” We suggested an additional graphical system that would react to the drawings to create more visual interest and got started creating designs and prototypes.

To get an LG phone to communicate to a reactive animation projection written in Cinder we needed to make a processing app for the phone that mimicked LG’s own application QuickMemo. We designed, animated and triggered visuals along a special geometric grid. The grid provided all the animations with a spatial order, and remained beautiful even during chaotic interaction.

As the festival opened, people streamed through the tent like at a house party. A great DJ and our special set of audio reactive projections kept the tent going throughout the event. People equally danced, made drawings and took photos. And like any good party, people jumped around so much the floor almost collapsed, but the neighbors didn’t complain.

via Red Paper Heart

If you are in the New York City area this weekend, there are still a couple of slots open at the NYC Resistor TIMESQUARE watch class for this weekend!.

Have you ever wanted to wear an Arduino on your wrist and tell the time with a giant LED matrix? Then you’ll love this three hour class at NYC Resistor that I’ll be teaching on February 9th. During the class you can learn how to solder through-hole components as we put together the Adafruit Timesquare DIY watch kit, and afterwards we will extend the watch firmware to add a new feature to the watch.

This class is a great introduction to soldering and some advanced embedded programming techniques. The coin-cell powered Timesquare watch isn’t exactly a normal Arduino and is very CPU limited, so techniques for limiting power consumption, waking up from deep sleep with interrupt handlers, low voltage brownout detection and some inline AVR assembly will be discussed. If you just want to learn to solder and have a very stylish wristwatch, you don’t have to stay for the walkthrough of the firmware.

Included in the class price for every student is a pre-programmed Adafruit Timesquare watch kit and an FTDI cable for re-programming it (a $49 value). You’ll need to bring your own laptop with the Arduino IDE installed to flash new firmware onto the device if you are staying for the advanced portion of the class.

Click here to buy tickets at eventbrite!

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Featured Adafruit Products!

TIMESQUARE DIY Watch Kit – Red Display Matrix: Show up stylish AND on time to any event with this awesome looking DIY watch. We have a few watch kits here at Adafruit but we finally have one that looks good and fits well, even for ladies and kids and others with smaller wrists and hands. Its got a 8×8 bit matrix display and a repurposed silicone watch band for a professional look.

64 LEDs light up to tell you the time in a variety of ways. Built into the kit are 3 different watch ‘faces’ – a scrolling marquee with time and date, a binary watch display (for geeks, robots and binary fans), and a moon phase display (for beach-combers, werewolves). There’s also a built in battery meter so you can check your battery life. Want to make your own watch? Easy! The microcontroller is an Arduino-compatible, all you need is an FTDI Friend and the Arduino IDE and you can design your own watch faces and upload them to the TIMESQUARE. (read more)

3D Printed Watch Body for the TIMESQUARE DIY Watch Kit: Love the TIMESQUARE DIY Watch kit and have a great idea for a custom watch body you would like to fabricate to house the electronic parts? The watch kit already ships with style to spare, but that’s no reason to limit yourself to the included watch band when you can make one. Here are the steps I took to create the “Circling the Square” TIMESQUARE Watch Body. As I guide you through the steps I followed, I will share plenty of tips and tricks for how you can design your own! (read more)

via robives.com:

Download, print out and make your own Android robot. This poseable robot is available for everyone to download for free.

The Android robot is the logo of Google’s Android mobile device operating system.

This Android robot is modified from work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.

Read more.

Late last night while his kids were asleep waiting for Santa, maker and designer Jason Welsh (who just this week shared with us the cool Pi Command Center) was up tuning and tweaking his IR proximity sensing Arduino Book Case robot. Check out the latest progress for this cute little bot. Hope the kids had fun with it zipping around them today!
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Based on Arduino and ARM MK802 Mini PC with Ubuntu Linux, Apache server, node.js, and Firmata. The robotic platform is controlled entirely via ECMA Script / javascript over WiFi / wireless.

IOIO Mint – Portable Android Development Kit – IOIO (pronounced “yo-yo”) is a bridge between Android devices and external hardware such as sensors and servos. IOIO enables you to add the computational power, touch display, connectivity, and built-in sensors (camera, GPS, accelerometer) of Android to your projects. IOIO can connect to any standard Android device (as early as Android 1.5) over both USB and Bluetooth. Here’s a few IOIO projects which will give you an idea of what you can do with IOIO.

Arduino Mega R3 Android Accessory Development Kit (ADK) Board – Fast track your Android phone hardware development or just design cell-phone robots with the Arduino ADK! The Arduino ADK is a microcontroller board based on the powerful ATmega2560 (datasheet). It has a USB host interface to connect with Android based phones, and a power supply boost converter to charge up the phone from DC power while its plugged into the ADK.

Android – Skill Badge, Iron-On Patch – You hacked, modded or made something with Android! Adafruit offers a fun and exciting “badges” of achievement for electronics, science and engineering. We believe everyone should be able to be rewarded for learning a useful skill, a badge is just one of the many ways to show and share.

Making Android Accessories with IOIO by Simon Monk – Create your own electronic devices with the popular IOIO (“yoyo”) board, and control them with your Android phone or tablet. With this concise guide, you’ll get started by building four example projects—after that, the possibilities for making your own fun and creative accessories with Android and IOIO are endless.

Kiwi Bluetooth Android Phone Car Diagnostic Kit – The Kiwi Bluetooth is a plug and play wireless device that connects to your car’s OBDII port (right below the steering wheel). Kiwi Bluetooth comes attached with a 6 ft OBDII cable for easy installation. It also comes with a power switch built-in to prevent the need for having to constantly disconnect your unit from the OBDII port. You can use it in any vehicle born in 1996 or later, whether it’s a sedan, truck, SUV, or even a hybrid. Once the device is connected, you can download one of two recommended car diagnostics apps from the Android Market and begin to monitor all sorts of stats about your car.

Arduino + Android Projects for the Evil Genius by Simon Monk – Filled with practical, do-it-yourself gadgets, Arduino + Android Projects for the Evil Genius shows you how to create Arduino devices and control them with Android smartphones and tablets. Easy-to-find equipment and components are used for all the projects in the book, making projects for feasible for any Arduino / Android enthusiast.

SHIPPING DEADLINES

Here are your 2012 shipping deadlines for ordering from Adafruit. Please review our shipping section if you have specific questions on how and where we ship worldwide for this holiday season.

UPS ground (USA orders): Place orders by Friday 11am ET – December 14, 2012 –  There is no guarantee that UPS Ground packages will arrive in time for Christmas.

UPS 3-day (USA orders): Place orders by Wednesday 11am ET – December 19, 2012 – Arrive on 12/24/2012.

UPS 2-day (USA orders): Place orders by Thursday 11am ET – December 20, 2012 – Arrive on 12/24/2012.

UPS overnight (USA orders): Place orders by Friday 11am ET – December 21, 2012 – Arrive on 12/24/2012.

UPS International: Place orders by Monday 11am ET – December 17, 2012. Can take up extra time due to worldwide delays and customs. Should arrive by 12/24/2012 or sooner.

Please note: We do not offer Saturday service for UPS.
Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012, Christmas, no UPS pickup or delivery service.
Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, New Year’s Day, no UPS pickup or delivery service.

United States Postal Service, First Class and Priority (USA orders): Place orders by Friday – December 14, 2012 – Arrive by 12/24/2012 or sooner.

USPS First class mail international (International orders): Place orders by Friday – November 23, 2012. Can take up to 30 days ore more with worldwide delays and customs. Should arrive by 12/24/2012 or sooner, but not a trackable service cannot be guaranteed to arrive by 12/24/12.

USPS Express mail international(International orders): Place orders by Friday – December 14, 2012. Can take up to 15 days or more with worldwide delays and customs. Should arrive by 12/24/2012 or sooner.

Gift Certificates are always available at any time.

When in doubt contact us!

Android is 5 years old today.

Five years ago, on 5 November 2007, the newly formed Open Handset Alliance unveiled Android — an open-source operating system for mobile phones. Although Google is Android’s auteur, 34 corporations including T-Mobile, HTC, Motorola and Qualcomm formed part of the Alliance. The stated goal was “fostering innovation on mobile devices and giving consumers are far better user experience than much of what is available on today’s platforms”.

Android Haunted Mirror tutorial by alike – uses IOIOMint and RGB LED matrices!

IOIO Mint – Portable Android Development Kit – IOIO (pronounced “yo-yo”) is a bridge between Android devices and external hardware such as sensors and servos. IOIO enables you to add the computational power, touch display, connectivity, and built-in sensors (camera, GPS, accelerometer) of Android to your projects. IOIO can connect to any standard Android device (as early as Android 1.5) over both USB and Bluetooth. Here’s a few IOIO projects which will give you an idea of what you can do with IOIO.

Hacking for Fun: Programming a Wearable Android Device @ Dr Dobb’s. Mike writes -

A look at Recon Instruments’ MOD Live Heads-Up Display and the ease of creating and programming useful, on-person computing devices. If you had the chance to watch (or were even one of the lucky attendees at) the Google I/O 2012 opening keynote, you may recall the exciting moment when Sergey Brin proclaimed the arrival of the Google Glass prototypes to the attendees. Alas, Glass prototype pre-orders cost a cool $1,500 for some future delivery date. This led many developers, including me, to reassess their desire to build an Android-centric, HUD-based application.

Hardware is dead @ VentureBeat via Reddit.

I think this leads to an important conclusion: No one can make money selling hardware anymore. The only way to make money with hardware is to sell something else and get consumers to pay for the whole device and experience.

IOIO Mint – Portable Android Development Kit. IOIO (pronounced “yo-yo”) is a bridge between Android devices and external hardware such as sensors and servos. IOIO enables you to add the computational power, touch display, connectivity, and built-in sensors (camera, GPS, accelerometer) of Android to your projects.  IOIO can connect to any standard Android device (as early as Android 1.5) over both USB and Bluetooth.  Here’s a few IOIO projects which will give you an idea of what you can do with IOIO.

Unlike Arduino based methods of interfacing with Android, IOIO differs in that the firmware is taken care of for you.  You have full control of the IOIO pins from within your Android application code using the supplied IOIO Java-based libraries; no additional Arduino sketches are required!  This significantly simplifies the process, allowing you to focus solely on your Android application code.  In addition to basic digital input/output and analog input, the IOIO library also handles PWM, I2C, SPI, and UART control. The firmware is easily upgradeable using the IOIO Manager app from your Android phone.

IOIOMint is a special edition version of the IOIO board with the added features of an on-board LiPO charger, LiPO battery, header pins, included Bluetooth dongle, and mini USB board power/charging port, all mounted in a laser cut, mint tin package. IOIOMint is identical to the Droidalyzer hardware with the exception that IOIOMint does not include the alcohol sensor.

Chances are your Android device is compatible with IOIO but we cannot be absolutely certain as each Android device manufacturer can modify the Android build.  The following devices have been verified to be compatible with IOIO. Nearly all devices will work with a MicroUSB cable, but not all will work with the Bluetooth connection, so please check it out!

IOIO has an active community of users who can be found on the IOIO users  forum.  IOIO is 100% open-source hardware and software, with permissive royalty-free license terms.

• 46 total I/O pins * – featuring both open-drain, and internal pull up/down, some pins are 5V tolerant
• USB Bluetooth dongle, this particular dongle has been found to be the most compatible with Android devices. See verified devices with this dongle.
• On-board LiPO charger circuit. The LiPO is re-chargeable using any USB power source.
• 500 mAh LiPO battery
• LED indicators for charging and full battery states
• On-board on/off switch
• Female header pins
• 16 analog inputs (10-bit)
• 9 PWM outputs
• 9 pulse inputs
• 4 UART channels
• 3 SPI channels
• 3 TWI (I²C-compatible) channels
• In addition to the headers, 19 of the IOIO pins are also exposed via solder pads for applications where sturdy/permanent connections are needed.
• On-board programmable LED (IOIO “status” LED)
• Maximum 800mA load output
• Solder pad for an optional alcohol sensor

In stock and shipping now!

PiControl – Android App.

Control and manage your Raspberry Pi from your Android Phone. PiControl is an app to control your Raspberry Pi from your Android phone. It is based off Raspcontrol, (www.raspcontrol.com) the popular web control panel and is compatible with it.

Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit, be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Have you tried the new “Adafruit Raspberry Pi Educational Linux Distro” ? It’s our tweaked distribution for teaching electronics using the Raspberry Pi.

First Look at the 2012 Android Development Kit @ Wired Design.

You may think of Android as an OS for phones and tablets, but Google’s ambitions run deeper. They’re pitching it as a platform that could run on all kinds of devices. To get developers on board with that plan, the company announced an update to the Android Accessory Development Kit (ADK) 2012 at Google I/O.

That’s an Arduino-compatible in there, official page here.

The ADK 2012 is based on the Arduino open source electronics prototyping platform and is an open hardware design. The hardware design files and firmware source code are included with the ADK software download. The ADK contains two main physical hardware components:

1. Main processing board containing the microprocessor, USB connections, power connector and input/output pins. This board can be removed and used separately from the rest of the hardware.
2. Shield containing sensors, LEDs, input controls, audio amplifier and speaker output, contained in a custom, polygon box enclosure.

The main hardware features of the ADK are as follows:

• An ARM 32-bit Cortex M3 micro-processor
• Separate USB connections for an Android device and computer connection for programming and debugging
• Sensors for light, color, proximity, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and acceleration
• Micro SD Card slot
• Bluetooth support

The ADK comes preloaded with an alarm clock firmware program that you can use immediately. A companion Android application, ADK 2012, is available on Google Play. The source code for both the Android application and the ADK firmware (an Arduino sketch) can be downloaded from this page.

Bruce writes-

Fred is  a distributed processor bot using 12 Arduino’s and I2C to communicate between boards.  Oh and the name started while I was coding the voice recognition board I needed a name to get the robots attention.  The mechanical and electronics are about 85% complete after 5 months of building.  Lots of the code is written and partly tested but needs to be ironed out with the full system with board interactions.  I only have nights and weekends to work on Fred dam day job gets in the way of fun. I’m planning on showing off Fred in the near future at one of your Show & Tells.

Awesome !

microController BT – Android Apps on Google Play. Kevin writes -

I wanted to share an app that I created to control and monitor my various electronics projects. It uses Bluetooth, is highly customizable and is very easy to integrate. I always put a lot of thought into how I’m going to control and monitor a new project and this app was the ultimate result. I use it for everything now. It really changed the way I thought about interacting with my projects and I hope your readers will find it useful.

How Open Source Hardware Is Driving the 3D-Printing Industry.

The potential of 3D printing to transform the way we get things – the market is predicted to hit $3.1 billion in the next four years - gets a lot of press. But not much of that attention has focused on the unique role of open source hardware in enabling 3D printing to realize its promise.

Open source software has been a key player in all kinds of disruptive technologies – from the Web to big data. Now the nascent and growing open source hardware movement is helping to power its own disruptive revolution.

Android Transporter on the Raspberry Pi @ E.S.R.Labs via Pi blog.

The Android Transporter allows you to share display content wirelessly with remote screens in real time. Now, the Android Transporter also runs on the Raspberry Pi which enables you to easily share the display content of your smartphone or tablet with a television set or a video projector.

Arduino Blog » Blog Archive » Android ADK2012 is here and is powered by Arduino technology.

Google has unveiled at Google IO their new  Accessory Development Kit for Android mobile phones and tablets, the ADK2012. The ADK2012 is based on the upcoming Arduino Due platform and the new Arduino IDE that supports programming ARM targets. Currently the IDE works only on the Google ADK board released at Google IO, while the official launch of the Arduino Due is due later in the year.

Brian at Hackaday writes:

Over on the 68kmla forums, a website dedicated to old Macs built before 1994, user zydeco released his Android port of Mini vMac, a Macintosh Plus emulator that puts the power of a Motorola MC68000 processor and System 7 on any computer.

68kmla user FlyingToaster even went so far as to put a Mac Plus in his nook touch. With this, he’s got a full-blown installation of System 7 running on an e-ink screen, complete with Lemmings, Gauntlet, and Tetris.

NEW PRODUCT – IOIO Mint – Portable Android Development Kit. IOIO (pronounced “yo-yo”) is a bridge between Android devices and external hardware such as sensors and servos. IOIO enables you to add the computational power, touch display, connectivity, and built-in sensors (camera, GPS, accelerometer) of Android to your projects.  IOIO can connect to any standard Android device (as early as Android 1.5) over both USB and Bluetooth.  Here’s a few IOIO projects which will give you an idea of what you can do with IOIO.

Unlike Arduino based methods of interfacing with Android, IOIO differs in that the firmware is taken care of for you.  You have full control of the IOIO pins from within your Android application code using the supplied IOIO Java-based libraries; no additional Arduino sketches are required!  This significantly simplifies the process, allowing you to focus solely on your Android application code.  In addition to basic digital input/output and analog input, the IOIO library also handles PWM, I2C, SPI, and UART control. The firmware is easily upgradeable using the IOIO Manager app from your Android phone.

IOIOMint is a special edition version of the IOIO board with the added features of an on-board LiPO charger, LiPO battery, header pins, included Bluetooth dongle, and mini USB board power/charging port, all mounted in a laser cut, mint tin package. IOIOMint is identical to the Droidalyzer hardware with the exception that IOIOMint does not include the alcohol sensor.

Chances are your Android device is compatible with IOIO but we cannot be absolutely certain as each Android device manufacturer can modify the Android build.  The following devices have been verified to be compatible with IOIO. Nearly all devices will work with a MicroUSB cable, but not all will work with the Bluetooth connection, so please check it out!

IOIO has an active community of users who can be found on the IOIO users  forum.  IOIO is 100% open-source hardware and software, with permissive royalty-free license terms.

• 46 total I/O pins * – featuring both open-drain, and internal pull up/down, some pins are 5V tolerant
• USB Bluetooth dongle, this particular dongle has been found to be the most compatible with Android devices. See verified devices with this dongle.
• On-board LiPO charger circuit. The LiPO is re-chargeable using any USB power source.
• 500 mAh LiPO battery
• LED indicators for charging and full battery states
• On-board on/off switch
• Female header pins
• 16 analog inputs (10-bit)
• 9 PWM outputs
• 9 pulse inputs
• 4 UART channels
• 3 SPI channels
• 3 TWI (I²C-compatible) channels
• In addition to the headers, 19 of the IOIO pins are also exposed via solder pads for applications where sturdy/permanent connections are needed.
• On-board programmable LED (IOIO “status” LED)
• Maximum 800mA load output
• Solder pad for an optional alcohol sensor

In stock and shipping now!