Mesada Flexiview FV-1 “AndroidTV” Technical Review
January 9th, 2012 by angusFirst part: a general review of the "Mesada Flexiview FV-1" cheap "Android TV" box. Second part: in-depth technical teardown, and discussion.
Notes using scratchbox2 with debian multiarch
December 6th, 2011 by angusI'm a very recent (3 days) user of scratchbox2 for cross-compiling. I have found that scratchbox2 (as of 2.3.3) is a bit fiddly when targeting Debian multiarch (wheezy/sid aka testing/unstable.) Here are my notes about what I tweaked...
Notes on FTDI latency with Arduino
October 16th, 2011 by angusSome notes about the FTDI Latency Timer, and how to set it for optimum latency on Linux, Windows and OS X.
Been busy…
September 24th, 2011 by angusToo much going on lately: Canberra Hackerspace still going strong. Road tripping to Newcastle next week with dev_dsp for This Is Not Art. We've signed up to organise an Arduino MIDI controller workshop, and we're giving talks about Hackerspaces and the overlap ...
Developing & static linking Qt apps for Windows, using Linux & wine
September 4th, 2011 by angusI just started working on a simple cross-platform desktop application. I'm developing from Linux and hoping to build binaries for Linux, Windows and OS X. This quick blog post are some notes I took about: * Developing & building a Qt app ...
Huawei Sonic U8650 Review
August 7th, 2011 by angusCan you buy a decent smartphone for AU$188? How many Androids can dance on the head of a pin?
Smartphone Relapse
August 7th, 2011 by angusWhen I ditched my iPhone 11 months ago, I promised a follow-up post about the experience. Now I've gone back, so here it is.
Bing & Google – Finding some facts
February 4th, 2011 by angusI did some investigation into the Bing & Google spat. Once the Bing Toolbar is installed, IE 8 sends Microsoft a summary of every page URL that is requested. I found no evidence the toolbar singles out Google, or even ...
Open Letter to Wondermedia Technologies
November 28th, 2010 by angusThis letter is my plea and suggestion to Wondermedia. If they open up their resources to the community, vendors will be able to ship better products and they will sell more units. At no extra cost to them.
Froyo (Android 2.2) alpha for Eken M001 & M003
November 24th, 2010 by angusOver the past few days I've hacked together a very rough alpha of Froyo (Android 2.2) for my Eken M001 $99 tablet.
