Feb
04
2008
Earlier, we have published an article on how to run Google Android on a Sharp Zaurus SL-C760 device. Since there was considerable interest in the article, we have decided to publish some videos of this hack. Check them out on Google Video:
Since this PDA and Google Android were not really designed for each other, don't judge the capabilities of either from these videos :)
Dec
06
2007
Yesterday we managed to get Google Android running on a Sharp Zaurus SL-C760. This seems to be the first documented success with this device. This article provides instructions on how to get it working, in case you would like to try it at home :)
Google Android is a new software stack for mobile devices, specifically mobile phones. It uses the Linux kernel as the core, but Google developed a new user space stack:
Nov
26
2007
On Satruday I held a small lecture on the Regional Conference on Embedded and Ambient Systems, where I presented my earlier work using MoteIV T-Mote Sky motes utilizing Zigbee wireless mesh networking. I have used these small motes in the Copora installation at the Yamaguchi Center in Yamaguchi, Japan earlier this year.
Quite fun :)
The RCEAS dAEmo event featured other interesting presentations, ranging from cell-phone based text-to-speech systems to head-mounted displays that can be used to control a Sony Aibo robot dog.
Nov
11
2007
While working on performance tuning for one of our clients, we have performed some benchmarks on the various statement types and JDBC options for MySQL. The results turned out to be somewhat interesting, so we are sharing it here :)
