#“Another big brain dump of interesting tech bits over the past few weeks”
- Thrilled to find that Bluetooth on this Play Edition ROM for SGS4 works perfectly. I've gone from 20% success rate auto-connecting to my Lidl car stereo to 100%, Finally!
- Nodeconf Europe is on in Waterford Mon-Wed. Incredible line-up of speakers. Superb IoT sessions set for Monday. A conference driven by expertise, not bullshit-artists hyping vapourware.
- Ordered an Espruino - run JS on an MCU
- This --------> <-------- close to ordering a Tessel - moar JS on an MCU, this time with NPM support
- Waiting to order an Arduino Yun= Arduino + Wifi machine + bridge libraries
- Of course I had to back this Pressy button for my Android phone. One of those slap-head projects that you can't believe you never thought of yourself.
- What has happened to ql.io? Was a very cool open source Node.js project from eBay for querying a variety of web-services using a SQL like language. Doing joins across data from multiple sites was damned impressive. Have they shut it down?
- Finally got Arduino talking to Raspberry Pi using two nRF24L01+ 2.4GHz devices. The libraries work great but it was the error-riddled blogposts by the author that made it take so long. I'll write up my own with the correct info soon. However it is not "Intrinsically Safe".
- More MBP stupidity - horrible monochrome mini icons; favicons on Safari?; How do I discover that Safari is how to access the internet?; Caps Lock key in 2013 why?; but tiny arrow keys; no UK layout keymap for external keyboards; try to remember print-screen three-finger-salute; Magic Mouse hurts; DMG files - oh my god; Finder, oh hello 1989.
- Apple keyboard dock for iPad is one of the worst pieces of industrial design of all time. Hilariously unstable and unusable. Going to hack a USB cable for it to see if it'll work as a PC keyboard since the buttons are nice.
- Logitech Ultra-thin keyboard case for iPad is one of the best pieces of industrial design I've used. My Dad liking it a lot too. He may say bye bye to his heavy laptop.
- ShrimpKey - Take the Shrimp DIY Arduino and turn it into a DIY Makey Makey. Neat.
- Two different HDMI to VGA adapters cause horrendous pulsating noise on the analogue audio output of all my Raspberry Pis. Anyone else seeing/hearing this?
- Only getting a 65Mbs connection from SGS4 phone to a Wireless-N AP when I'm right beside it. I have channel set not to overlap with any others. Where the hell is this mythical 300Mbs then?
- My Runkeeper to Endomondo import tool now supports Sports Tracker too
- Very very neat helium balloon project by Jason Madigan
- XBMC now supports hardware video decoding on Android. Unfortunately not on Allwinner or AMLogic chips which is a total bummer as a large percentage of cheap devices use them. Fault lies totally with Allwinner and AMLogic. The unofficial XBMC for Android works like a charm on my SGS4.
- No software application is complete until you can write code inside it. Code editor with Git support inside Chrome.
- I'm sure I've forgotten 10 other things.