Category: Texas Instruments

Best of CES: $150 BeagleMiP Robot Development Kit and $99 WowWee MiP

Posted by Charbax – January 18, 2014
Category: Robots, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, CES

From the Coordinated Robotics Lab of The University of California, San Diego, here is the BeagleMiP Mobile Inverted Pendulum (MiP) educational robotics development kit from Strawson Design, able to balance and carry more weight on 2 wheels such as modules, extensions, sensors, hacks, 3D printed add-ons and more. While the awesome Arduino-derived $99 WowWee MiP device is the coolest consumer toy robot that I have seen at CES 2014 (which you can see starting at 19:36 into this video), the idea with BeagleMiP is to do even more with the system, based on the $45 Texas Instruments BeagleBone Black with a 1Ghz TI AM335x ARM Cortex-A8, they add their Novus Robotics Cape add-on PCB board to provide for all the robotics R&D connectivity. This video features UCSD Professor Thomas Bewley, UCSD PhD student James Strawson and USCD PhD student Saam Ostovari.

While the BeagleMiP will be commercially available as a $150 MiP robotics development kit, the WowWee MiP is going to be the world’s first mass produced self-balancing Mobile Inverted Pendulum based commercial robot equipped with GestureSense technology (hand motion controls), bluetooth for Smartphone app control, fast speed, expansion for additional fun functionality. Carrying mode allows it to carry any weight, it also even has a port on the final model and can carry and balance any additional weight, including cameras, more sensors, modems, anything else users can think of.

As you can hear in the video, these UCSD students are also working on 40 centimeters tall versions of their MiP, which will be able to carry heavy bags like groceries for you and follow you around, for example.

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AllGo Embedded Systems, Automotive Infotainment with 4-second Android boot

Posted by Charbax – January 17, 2014
Category: Tablets, Cars, Exclusive videos, Freescale, Texas Instruments, CES, Android

AllGo Systems shows Automotive IVI system solution with 4 seconds boot up time on Freescale i.MX6 and Texas Instruments OMAP5 for Android in Automotive (long term support) configurations. AllGo’s technologies have been deployed in numerous fields of Automotive, Consumer and Security segments. Here are some of the things AllGo Systems provides:
– The complete software reference solution for digital audio players used by 8 leading car manufacturers in USA and Germany
– World’s fastest and best quality MP3 encoder for ARM platforms
– Video and Networked Audio IP which they have licensed to companies around the world
– BOM optimised turn-key solution for streaming video player
– World’s first fully programmable 1080p H.264 decoder
– Solutions used in over 50 products deployed in more than 6 million cars, portable players and home entertainment systems world-wide

Google Glass app Glashion “OK glass, I want this!” buys anything you see

Posted by Charbax – December 29, 2013
Category: Wearables, Smart Glass, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Gigaom Roadmap, Android

Glashion is a Google Glass project that allows you to buy fashion products that you are looking at. Look at any fashionable bag or dress on a bypasser or in a store, and then the app queries the ShopStyle API for similar matches based on object recognition technology. You simply tell Glass when you see a product, “Ok glass, I want this!” and you can then buy the product with a blink. At least that is their idea.

Robert Scoble “Age of Context” at LeWeb 2013

Posted by Charbax – December 17, 2013
Category: Wearables, Smartwatch, Sensors, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, LeWeb, Android

The five converging forces promise to change virtually every aspect of our lives. You know them as: mobile, data, sensors and location-based technology. Combined with social media they form a new generation of personalized technology that knows us better than our closest friends. Armed with that knowledge our personal devices can anticipate what we’ll need next and serve us better than a butler or an executive assistant.

You can buy Robert Scoble’s new book or ebook at amazon.com

Luke Shield’s Open Source Platform for Development

Posted by Charbax – December 3, 2013
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, ARM TechCon, Android, Ubuntu

Luke Shields of JCSC shows off his supposed to be platform for open source platform development in schools, encouraging children to experiment making hardware, re-painting old home consoles, integrate ARM development boards, modulate, what you want may not be what I want and what I want may not be what you want. Check it out.

nCore HPC ARM+DSP Super Computer

Posted by juliusaugustus – November 29, 2013
Category: Servers, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, ARM TechCon

nCore HPC presents the BrownDwarf Y-class supercomputer, a heterogeneous ARM- and DSP-based super computer system using Texas Instrument’s ARM+DSP Server design on a blade. nCore’s primary customer is the US government. The supercomputer uses a heterogeneous architecture with 4 Arm Cortex A15 cores and 24 DSP cores with 16gb of memory per node and 1.2 terrabytes of physical memory in total. With HPC applications you need to hold much of what you are doing in memory. The vast amounts of computing power in the super computers have a wide variety applications such as medical imaging and simulation. Through programming you can divide programs among the ARM and DSP.

Company Website: http://www.ncoredesign.com/

faytech touchscreen factory tour

Posted by Charbax – November 19, 2013
Category: Tablets, Displays, Factory Tours, PCB Design House, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Texas Instruments, Samsung, AMD, Broadcom, faytech, Android, Ubuntu, Windows

Watch as Arne Weber, the General Manager of faytech ltd. conducts a 48-minute tour of his factory based in Shenzhen China. Having been in the Touchscreen business in Germany for many years, Arne and his Chinese wife Fan relocated to China 2008, opened a factory and began to manufacture their own proprietary designs of Touchscreen Monitors and Touchscreen PCs in March of 2010. The business has grown substantially since its inception, and now occupies over 15,000 square feet in the Hongmen Technology Park, in Shenzhen. With a staff of over 70 people, faytech has in-house engineering and product design capabilities and manufactures faytech branded products that are sold in countries around the world. In 2013 faytech was awarded an ISO 9001:2008 certification for meeting internationally set standards for their manufacturing operation. Known for their unique designs, and excellent craftsmanship, German engineering, Asian manufacturing, and global service has become the trademark of this up and coming company in the touchscreen industry. faytech now has sales, distribution, and service in Germany, China, and in the USA. Fan, Arne and their team are very proud of their continuing development of unique and interesting products. faytech products are being used by some of the largest companies in Europe including Siemens, Bosch, and Continental, used in NYC during Fashion Week and at the world famous Madison Square Garden, in US based car washes, Brazilian and Tunisian police cars, trains in Spain, earth moving equipment in Africa, on fitness equipment in Germany, and many other international programs.

Contact this industrial touchscreen solution supplier:
faytech Co., Ltd.
Fl. 4, Bldg. C, Second Phase,
Hongmen Tech. Zone,
Shangxue Duan, Jihua Rd.,
Longgang, Shenzhen
Tel: +86 (0) 755 89580612
sales@faytech.com
support@faytech.com
http://www.faytech.com

Android 4.4 Linaro on Galaxy Nexus

Posted by Charbax – November 5, 2013
Category: Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Linaro Connect, Android

Bernhard Rosenkränzer, Linaro Android Builds and Baselines Engineer, presents Android 4.4 running on the Galaxy Nexus from his house in the mountains of Switzerland. Once the code is made available at http://linaro.org, this will be a chance for people who can’t get the Nexus 5 to try out Android 4.4.

Previous Android 4.4 at Linaro videos:
Android 4.4 KitKat release impressions at Linaro Connect 2013
Linaro developer talks Android 4.4 in front of the KitKat statue at Android Google Headquarters in Mountain View California
Android 4.4 KitKat release first impressions by Bernhard Rosenkränzer (Linaro Android developer)

Android 4.4 KitKat release impressions at Linaro Connect 2013

Posted by Charbax – November 1, 2013
Category: Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Samsung, Linaro Connect, Android

After the first night of hacking the source code, the Linaro Android Team featuring Khasim Syed Mohammed and Bernhard Rosenkränzer talk about ART replacing Dalvik VM, better memory management, support for new sensors, Browser being replaced with Chromium, WiFi Printing support, NFC smartcard emulation and more!

HP ARM Server Keynote Address from Martin Fink, CTO and Director, HP Labs at ARM Techcon 2013

Posted by Charbax – October 30, 2013
Category: Servers, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Marvell, ARM TechCon

The New Style of IT

It’s an exciting time to be in technology. The IT industry is at a major inflection point driven by four generation-defining trends: the cloud, social, Big Data, and mobile. These trends are forever changing how consumers and businesses communicate, collaborate, and access information. And to accommodate these changes, enterprises, governments and fast growing companies desperately need a “New Style of IT.” Shaping the future of IT starts with a radically different approach to how we think about compute – for example, in servers, HP has a game-changing new category that requires 80% less space, uses 89% less energy, costs 77% less – and is 97% less complex. There’s never been a better time to be part of the ecosystem and usher in the next-generation of innovation.

Read more: http://schedule.armtechcon.com/session-id/93

Hampoo OMAP5 PCB Design House

Posted by Charbax – October 24, 2013
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Samsung, Android

Hampoo shows some of their OMAP5 PCB Designs, use cases may be for in-car entertainment systems, medial usage, industrial usage. Of course it also depends what Texas Instruments plans to do with OMAP5 precisely. Hampoo may be one of the leading PCB designers in Shenzhen designing special use case PCB designs, they have a long history working on OMAP3, OMAP4 and OMAP5 and they now also work on Exynos5 and some other designs to come. Hampoo showcases their naked eye 3D tablet also, based on OMAP4470, I also filmed Hampoo showing off their tablets at Computex here: http://138.2.152.197/2013/07/19/arm-cortex-a9-glass-free-3d-tab-10-1inch-by-hampoo/

Contact Hampoo:
Snehesh Sinha
snehesh@hampoo.com
http://www.hampoo.com

Smartdevices SmartQ shows latest OMAP4 and Exynos5 based Tablets

Posted by juliusaugustus – August 14, 2013
Category: Laptops, Projectors, Texas Instruments, Samsung, China Sourcing Fair, Android

SmartQ is a producer of Android Tablets. They have produced devices in the past such as the Linux based SmartQ V5 or the T20. More information can be found at http://en.smartdevices.com.cn/
Products Include:
SmartQ U7 is a 7″ Android Tablet with Omap 4 processor and built in projector. They sell around 2,000 of these every month. The price is around 240 USD each for 1,000 units.

SmartQ T30 a 10.1″ 1280×800 Android tablet with Omap 4 processor. This t30 is around 6 months old and will be replaced with by the t40 with a 10.1 1920×1200 screen and Exynos 5 processor.

SmartQ Ten5 with 9.7″ retina screen and very thin bezel with Exynos 5 2ghz processor.

SmartQ N10 a not yet released pressure sensitive pen. SmartQ wouldn’t specify the pen type but it appears to we from N-Trig.


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ARMdevices.net Shenzhen Sourcing Service launched

Posted by Charbax – August 12, 2013
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, E-readers, Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Projectors, Displays, Cameras, Wearables, Gaming, Robots, Smartwatch, Development Boards, Other, Exclusive videos, Opinions, Allwinner, Rockchip, Freescale, Actions, AmLogic, MediaTek, Texas Instruments, HiSilicon, Qualcomm, Samsung, Nvidia, Marvell, Telechips, Infotmic, VIA, Nufront, ST-Ericsson, Renesas, ARM, Android, Chrome OS, Ubuntu

Do you need help/advice sourcing bulks of devices out of Shenzhen? You can now get support and sourcing service from me at http://138.2.152.197/sourcing/ and from my new team of experts in Shenzhen to connect you with the best prices, the best quality, the most reliable Shenzhen factories making Tablets, HDMI Sticks, Smartphones, Laptops, Wearables and any of the other emerging devices from the Shenzhen tech market.

For a fixed fee of $500, you can talk to me on video-chat (Google Hangout or Skype) for at least 1 hour, at a time of your choosing, I’ll tell you what I know for what you want to know, and you get to be connected by emails with my sourcing expert partners here in Shenzhen. We will do our best to get you to the best possible prices/features for the devices that you are looking to import into your country.

Have you been looking at all my videos and checked the business cards visible to $20/year members, but you are still unsure which factory is the best for what you want? Do you want ideas for devices to sell? Do you want my opinions on what may be best for your market? Do you want to ask me questions and do you need my advice on email? This is the service for you.

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OMAP4 Smartwatch solution, System In Package (SiP) (OMAP5 option) integrated with NAND 512/256MB, LP SDRAM256/512MB,& IC TPS65950 from PRINCO Corp.

Posted by m@ddy – August 11, 2013
Category: Wearables, Smartwatch, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Computex, Android, Chrome OS, Windows

Princo SiP module Total Solution provides SiP modules integrated with OMAP4, OMAP5 programming processors,Sigle Level Cell NAND 512/256MB Flash,power management IC TPS65950, Low Power SDRAM256/512MB. Integrates with 5ICs and 100 capacity comounds.This miniature module IC is designed to serve as a core building block for video-rich and graphics-rich multimedia applications.

Target applications include:
Smart Watch, Smart Phone, Tablet, Multimedia Players, Industrial PDA, Human Machine Interface, Hand held Computing Devices, Smart Control unit, Smart Toys, Industrial Control application and More….
PRINCO Corp. has established for 30 years and devoted in devlopment of very high density software for 12 yrs.

Features and Benefits:
1.High Performance with Low System Cost
● ARM Cortex-A8 core, 600/ 720 /800/1000 MHz.
● Easy-to-use. ( 423-pin, 0.8 mm BGA ball pitch)
● 4L-PCB design feasible.

2.with High Reliability
● 21mm ×21mm × 1.25mm
● Ideal for space-constrained handheld devices.
● Proven for industrial grade use.(-40℃ to 85℃)

3.Wireless Connectivity
● Proven Wifi/Bluetooth connectivity.
● GSM/GPRS/3G connectivity
● GPS module

4.Platform Supported
● WinCE.
● Linux-QT
● Android.
● H/W,S/W Reference Design and PCBA total solution available.

Reference Link:
http://www.princo.com.tw/www/module/english//

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Ubuntu on phone, tablets, latest demos

Posted by m@ddy – July 29, 2013
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Computex, Ubuntu

Here’s Ubuntu OS for phones built on Android BSP (Board Support Package). They can bring on various phone devices in very short time. Ubuntu OS makes playing videos easier. Ubuntu User interface is very sleek. Through Preview window you can see the videos while playing games or working on any other app. Ubuntu OS runs on different engine no need of engines like JAVA, Dolby. Ubuntu applications written by CUTE support HTML5. It’s different software architecture. Ubuntu provides complete ecosystem also provides SDK system for developers they can use CUTE create their own apps. So that Simple app can run both PC and Phone. Ubuntu OS runs on high end phones, require powerful CPU capable to run both Android and Ubuntu OS at the same time. To do this optimization required of phone feature complete like you can write SMS from desktop in all languages. Users don’t need to have other laptop or PC to communicate between Android and Ubuntu. It’s an Unique experience run Both OS on One Phone. For now Android apps can’t run on Ubuntu. It is possible only after optimzing aspects like graphics. Android apps for Touch. but running CUTE apps is different thing.They can easily Ubantu open source can be write on Android code.there is lot of room for optimization like display performance VD development finally putting them together is easy concept. Ubuntu lowered the basic effort to put Ubuntu on Android. BSP drivers are almost same so effort for OEM is easier to adapt Ubuntu on their hardware. Last year Ubuntu was on OMAP4. Now on qualcomm S4. Wrote with “Ubuntu control app”. User can control Ubuntu session by phone only. If click on shut down Ubuntu control app the phone still can work on Android.

To run Ubuntu 1GB RAM. 1.5Ghz Dualcore CPU are minimum requirements. Aiming to different market segment.
People who think that Android is not sufficient they can turn on Ubuntu. Android is designed for small phones where as Ubuntu they design for large screens. Legacy of Linux is for big screens and multitasking. The main focus is running Ubuntu on multiple device like phone, tablet, TV and many more.

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OMAP4470 Glasses-free 3D 10.1″ tablet by Hampoo

Posted by m@ddy – July 19, 2013
Category: Tablets, Displays, Software, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Texas Instruments, Computex, Android

1. Glass-free 3D Tab from Hampoo science & Technology Co. Ltd
First of its kind in the world,Glass free 10.1ich 3D  Tablet which converts 2D photo/videos and 2D games to 3D visual experience. Snehesh Sinha a Lead Key Account Generator from Hampoo is describing Glass Free 3D 10.1 inch TAB in Tablet Trade Show.

Features:
– Plays all 3D &3D Video & Games/Photo
– Converts 2D Videos n Games into 3D
– Naked eye 3D experience
– Handy control in the application on the lhs of screen to amplify the
2D Videos  to 3D
– Far and behind option to reach back side of the screen to when
viewing 3D Videos/

Technical Specifications:
– Android OS
– 10.1”, 1920 X 1200 IPS Screen
– Wi-Fi/3G Support for smart 3G Video games
– 2D TO 3D Special Software Engine
– 50+ Games support
– 3D Photo & Video player
– GPU- SGX544 With 3D accelerator

2. OMAP4430 cortex A-9 TABS FOR Vertical Applications from Hampoo

Here is another Tab for vertical application from Hampoo.
A handy tool for Medical, Restaurants , Logistics,& Custom Apps
– Bar code scanner
– RFID sensor

Specifications:
– 1D & 2D Barcode scanner
– Wi-Fi roaming switch over time < 1 sec
– TI OMAP 4430, Cortex A-9 Duel core 1.9Ghz
– Front 2MP camera, Rear 5 MP
– 1G LPDDR2 RAM/ 16 G ROM
– Blue Tooth 4.0/ AGPS
– Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n
– NFC

This product is already in use in one of the major Restaurant chain group in US.

Reference Link:
http://www.hampoo.com/en
https://www.computextaipei.com.tw/en_US/product/info.html?id=EFE0076A286722DF22EC395E2D67AB04
http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2013/06/07/552728/10035647/en/DDD-licenses-TriDef-3D-to-Hampoo-for-glasses-free-3D-tablets.html
http://www.3dfocus.co.uk/3d-news-2/worlds-first-10-1-glasses-free-3d-tablet-for-2013/13368

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Robert Scoble shows Google Glass

Posted by Charbax – April 24, 2013
Category: Wearables, Smart Glass, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Next Berlin, Android

Robert Scoble is showing off the Google Glass at the Next Berlin conference, he gave an awesome keynote on Context, the upcoming wearable computing revolution. Robert Scoble has been using his Google Glass for about a week and offers here some of his impressions and thoughts on this Google headmounted computer Prototype. Check back on http://ARMdevices.net for much more on the features and performance of the Google Glass and all other wearable computing devices that I’ll video-blog in the weeks to come.

Charbax Google Glass Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble’s keynote video is here:

iOS and Windows apps to soon run on Android?

Posted by Charbax – March 9, 2013
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Linaro Connect, Android

Check out my 41-minute video with Bernhard Rosenkränzer, Android engineer at Linaro, where he explains how iOS, Windows Phone/RT/8 and full Linux apps can soon run on Android. He shows off how GCC/LLVM/Clang now runs on Android, allowing developers to develop and compile code directly on Android. Soon, perhaps as 64bit ARMv8 devices reach the market by next year, developers won’t need an x86 Laptop machine to develop for/on Android. Compile a new Android and reboot into it, all within Android itself. He explains how Google and the open source Android project is using Linaro code to optimize and speed up Android Linux on all ARM devices. Here‘s the video that I filmed last year that got him to win the “Online Superstar” award at Linaro Connect 2013.

Viewsonic VSD241 24″ and VSD220 22″ All-in-one Android Computers

Posted by Charbax – March 3, 2013
Category: Tablets, Displays, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Nvidia, MWC, Android, Windows

You get the full Android 4.1 Jelly Bean experience on the 24″ Viewsonic VSD241 1080p display running on a Tegra3 quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on the 22″ Viewsonic VSD220 1080p display running on the OMAP4430 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9. The price of integrating the ARM SoC with Android is perhaps not much more than selling the touch screen display by itself, and with the HDMI input and USB you can connect any Windows 8 Laptop or Desktop to this screen to thus use the same large touch screen to also use Windows 8.

Cupp computing hardware secured mobility

Posted by Charbax – March 3, 2013
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, Marvell, MWC

Cupp computing demonstrates how they make ARM based PCI modules that add full hardware based security for Windows/Mac/Linux laptops, running the full security suite on the Cupp computing module, quicker and safer than an anti-virus. Cupp computing hopes to provide a +400Mb solution based on a quad core ARM processor later this year for a bit over $200.