Thursday, 5 May 2011

usb stick sized computer for £15 anyone??

Now this is more like it - lightweight computers that are throwaway but cheap enough to give away:

Provisional specification:

700MHz ARM11
128MB of SDRAM
OpenGL ES 2.0
1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
Composite and HDMI video output
USB 2.0
SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot
General-purpose I/O
Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python)

hdmi output and usb input

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

usb stick sized computer for £15 anyone??

Now this is more like it - lightweight computers that are throwaway but cheap enough to give away:

Provisional specification:

700MHz ARM11
128MB of SDRAM
OpenGL ES 2.0
1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
Composite and HDMI video output
USB 2.0
SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot
General-purpose I/O
Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python)

hdmi output and usb input

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

usb stick sized computer for £15 anyone??

Now this is more like it - lightweight computers that are throwaway but cheap enough to give away:

Provisional specification:

700MHz ARM11
128MB of SDRAM
OpenGL ES 2.0
1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
Composite and HDMI video output
USB 2.0
SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot
General-purpose I/O
Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python)

hdmi output and usb input

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

usb stick sized computer for £15 anyone??

Now this is more like it - lightweight computers that are throwaway but cheap enough to give away:

Provisional specification:

700MHz ARM11
128MB of SDRAM
OpenGL ES 2.0
1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
Composite and HDMI video output
USB 2.0
SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot
General-purpose I/O
Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python)

hdmi output and usb input

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

usb stick sized computer for £15 anyone??

Now this is more like it - lightweight computers that are throwaway but cheap enough to give away:

Provisional specification:

700MHz ARM11
128MB of SDRAM
OpenGL ES 2.0
1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
Composite and HDMI video output
USB 2.0
SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot
General-purpose I/O
Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python)

hdmi output and usb input

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

usb stick sized computer for £15 anyone??

Now this is more like it - lightweight computers that are throwaway but cheap enough to give away:

Provisional specification:

700MHz ARM11
128MB of SDRAM
OpenGL ES 2.0
1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
Composite and HDMI video output
USB 2.0
SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot
General-purpose I/O
Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python)

hdmi output and usb input

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

How to fix a computer

For those of us that suffer having to fix other peoples computers....

How to fix a computer

Save the juice on your Android phone

Many people keep asking how to save battery life on their Android smartphone.. after saying the obvious "don't have a smartphone" :) I usually decide to be more helpful and point them to this article:

How to improve android battery life

kindle javascript game programming

You would not believe the LACK of information on this kind of thing around the web.


Javascript - yes
Kindle - yes
Kindle and Javascript - give up- google you FAILED me!

But I did find one site were someone was experimenting with Javascript and Kindle which I thought I would save for future reference:

kindle javascript game

Gameduino - 8-bit game development for the Arduino


Waiting for my Gameduino to arrive!

Quote from website:
"Gameduino connects your Arduino to a VGA monitor and speakers, so anyone who can write an Arduino sketch can create video games. It's packed full of 8-bit game goodness: hundreds of sprites, smooth scrolling, multi-channel stereo sound."

So, looks like a lot of fun to be had!