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Friday, January 30, 2009

cellphones hacks - Hack a Day

Several Cool Articles...

Forknife, Android G1 controlled robot
posted Jan 25th 2009 11:17pm by Eliot Phillips
filed under: cellphones hacks, google hacks, robots hacks

g1bot

When we first saw [Jeffrey Nelson]'s G1 based robot we immediately
wondered what the transport for the controls was. The G1's hardware
supports USB On-The-Go, but it's not implemented in Android yet. It
turns out he's actually sending commands by using DTMF tones through the
headphone adapter. The audio jack is connected to a DTMF decoder that
sends signals to the bot's Arduino. He wrote client/server code in Java
to issue commands to the robot. You can find that code plus a simple
schematic on his site. A video of the bot is embedded below.

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Debian on the G1 once again
posted Jan 15th 2009 7:55pm by Eliot Phillips
filed under: cellphones hacks, downloads hacks, google hacks

g1

[ghostwalker] dropped in on our previous Debian Android post to let us
know that he had streamlined the install process. The first time around,
it quickly became difficult to complete the process because firmware
updates had taken away root access. Hackers have since figured out how
to downgrade from RC30 and install BusyBox. All you need to do to put
Debian on your phone is download the package from [ghostwalker] and then
run the installer script. This isn't technically a port since Debian
already has ARM EABI support. What would you run on your phone if you
had access to the entire Debian package tree? A video of Debian starting
up is embedded below.

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