They make algorithms for measuring pedestrian navigation, using the Freescale Fusion sensors, accelerometers, gyro, to measure every step and the distance of every step. The target device is a smartphone.
Category: Other
Keil MDK-ARM for Cortex-M4 development
Posted by – June 21, 2011
Support for MQX RTOS within the Keil Tools it’s also task aware.
Qorivva MPC5645S-based in-car interactive dashboard demonstrations from Freescale and Visteon
Posted by – June 21, 2011
Drives two displays in parallel with gauges. Very low memory footprint thanks to fragmented frame buffer.
iWave PCB Designs based on i.MX53, i.MX51, i.MX27
iWave Systems makes Freescale based PCB designs and software optimization.
Freescale Sensor Toolbox with e-compass solution
Posted by – June 21, 2011
Using Freescale’s Sensor Fusion solutions, the accelerometer and some algorithms can improve the magnetometer as so-called e-compass, an improved compass that knows in which direction you are heading, speed things up for augmented reality, and any application that requires the compass.
Freescale Tower Sensor Pack
Posted by – June 21, 2011
The Tower Sensor Pack allows users to discover sensors. Find more information at http://freescale.com/tower and http://towergeeks.org
The worlds most awesome passenger airplane, Airbus A380 by Air France, nice!
Posted by – June 20, 2011
Category: Other
This is my first flight on the worlds most awesome biggest passenger airplane ever made. It’s awesome, smooth, big, confortable, smooth, there is space for 530 passengers on this one, it can be configured to have up to 800 something passengers, check it out.
Monkeys in the Kaohsiung Shoushan Monkey Mountain
Posted by – June 8, 2011
Taiwan Wilderness, check it out. Here I walk around for some hours in the Monkey Mountain (Shoushan) in Kaohsiung, a big city at the south of Taiwan. The monkeys are used to humans walking around in their jungle so they don’t mind saying hello, even protective mother monkeys with their baby monkeys as you can see in this video.
Shoushan is the one of the mountains where Kaohsiung residents can see natural biological specimens within an hour of drive. There is an extensive system of boardwalk hiking trails that circle the mountain. Hikers can enjoy tea at various tea stations sprinkled throughout the trails. Water is carried to the tea stations by hikers who bring it from a reverse osmosis station at the bottom. From the tea station at the top of the mountain, hikers can see views of the Taiwan Strait through the trees.
The mountain is a reserve for Formosan rock macaques.
ARM Powered Android used to lower the cost and power of Point-of-sale systems
Posted by – June 3, 2011
POSLab is showing their ARM Powered TI Cortex-A8 implementation of Android on a Point-of-sale (POS) system.
VIA WonderMedia SmartStream WiFi Direct to HDMI output
Posted by – May 31, 2011
VIA’s subsidiary WonderMedia is doing this ARM9 based platform to stream screen content to your HDTV wirelessly using WiFi Direct technology. It sounds like it ccould be a cheap way to wirelessly connect your Laptop, Tablet, even Smartphone to your HDTV without needing a cable. I wonder how WiFi Direct compresses stuff and how it manages high bitrate HD video, advanced 3D games and other such stuff.
Renault launches electric cars for real
Yup, all new cars can now be electric, and we can setup the renewable energy to power them and the battery switch stations and charge stations at all parking spots as fast as those new cars can get onto the market.
Worlds first Solar flight from Switzerland to Belgium underway
Posted by – May 13, 2011
Category: Energy Harvesting, Other
Watch the live video now here: http://www.solarimpulse.com
The flight should be 12 hours, 438 kilometers from Payerne Switzerland to Brussels Belgium. This is the worlds first attempt to make an international flight using a 100% solar powered airplane.
You can follow the flight live with video and metrics with the Solar Impulse app on Android Google Marketplace and Apple Appstore.
I’d like to know this from an aeronautical expert:
Could we build an electric airplane, no solar, just big batteries, how many people can be transported, how far and how fast? What if the range of an electric jumbo jet with 100 passengers was only 2 hours, that’s enough for half of all the short range gasoline powered flights.
Android robot funky dancer at the Google I/O party
Posted by – May 13, 2011
Category: Other
Here’s some nice behind the scenes at the Google I/O party, you get to see the world famous funky Taiwanese Android robot dancer as he makes fun with some of the Google people:
Samsung has released a nice looking HD video of the Chromebook experience (to be ARM Powered soon):
Android@Home enables 100 Billion new ARM Powered devices
Posted by – May 12, 2011
Android Open Accessory Development Kit
Android@Home enables the Internet of Things.
The biggest announcement at Google I/O was the launch of the Android@Home Open Accessory Development platform. This is the platform for a whole new world of accessories and connecting everything through Android to the Internet. Suddenly, we are smart about all things and all things become smart.
Now we are not only talking about about connecting 7 Billion people to the Internet with Android Smartphones, now it becomes about connecting 100 Billion things through Android to the Internet.
Why the Internet of things? Why using Android?
The cost to add an ARM processor such as one of the ARM Cortex-M series, with sensors, switches and wireless connectivity in every appliance in your home may cost as little as few cents or a few dollars per device. It’s so cheap that as soon as an open standard is established and as soon as applications are planned out, all devices will get connected with this technology. Watch my video with Nuvotron NuMicro at Embedded World 2011 about the cost ($0.50-$2) and use of ARM Cortex-M0 32bit microcontrollers in all types of devices.
Here are some of the infinite amounts of uses for putting ARM processors in everything:
– Put a smart control in every lamp and the lights follow you, if you move to another room the lights automatically turn off, you save power. They automatically dim if they detect you’re relaxing or watching TV.
– Put a smart control in all your doors, in all your windows, in all your power outlets, integrated with your heating systems, water systems.
– Add sensors, ARM Processors in your pillow, blanket and in your bed, to monitor your sleep and wake you up at the right time between the right sleeping cycles. You’ll feel better the whole day and you’ll optimize your sleeping times. It’s more healthy, makes you more productive and saves you time.
The trick is that even as the Internet of things has been possible for a while, and even as prices to add smart controllers and sensors in each thing costs $3, people haven’t been doing much of it yet just because the control, management, interactivity systems around this have not been standardized and open yet. If you want to build the Internet of things it has to be built around you and for you and not among each thing and only for each thing. That is why Android is your interface into that world of things, and Google supports the open Adruino platform to enable these developments in an open industry. Android is the UI for the Internet of Things. Android is how you guide it, how you see it, it’s how you control your things.
Expect the next consumer electronics trade shows to showcase more and more ARM Powered things to connect with the Android ecosystem, look forward to an industry about to get really creative in how to use and feature that Internet of Things most efficiently.
ARM President Tudor Brown talks about the Internet of Things at the ARM Technology Conference:
Andy Rubin’s former co-founders on Danger (Sidekick, see these videos from 2004) Matt Hershenson and Joe Britt demonstrate and launch the new Android Open Accessory API and Android@Home platform at the Google I/O 2011 Day 1 Keynote:
IBM’s video on the Internet of Things:
Related articles
- Android@Home: Google Gets Serious About the Smart Home (nytimes.com)
- Google’s Platform Extends Its Reach With Android@Home (wired.com)
Solar Impulse to attempt worlds first international solar flight tomorrow
Posted by – May 12, 2011
Category: Energy Harvesting, Other
Tomorrow May 13th 6AM Swiss Time, weather permits, Solar Impulse will attempt to fly a 100% Solar Powered airplane from Payerne Switzerland to Brussels Belgium. The prototype, piloted by André Borschberg, will take off from Payerne airfield and climb to an altitude of 3600 meters. The plane will head for France, pass over Luxembourg and land at Brussels Airport. Here’s my Interview with Solar Impulse co-founder Bertrand Piccard:
Schedule Friday May 13th 2011 (UTC +2) (liftoff is scheduled for 6AM Central European Time, this Midnight EST (New York), Thursday 9PM 12th May PST (San Francisco)):
06:00 approximately Take-off from Payerne aerodrome bound for Brussels Airport
20:30 Hangar doors open/ building 117 (logistical details below)
21:00 approximately Land at Brussels Airport
22:00 approximately Briefing in the hangar with Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg
23:00 End of the event
Although the flight has been confirmed, the Flight Director may still decide to postpone it or alter the route up until a short time before takeoff.
Tomorrow, you will thus be able to track the flight live on http://solarimpulse.com and via the Smartphone app “Solar Impulse Inventing the Future” available in Android Google Marketplace and Apple Appstore. The airplane’s position, altitude and speed will be shown live and cameras fitted inside the cockpit and at “Mission Control Center”, the mission’s nerve center, will allow you to experience the adventure live.
The purpose of Solar Impulse is to inspire all of us to think big, to become more ambitious, that we can as Humans pretty much do whatever we want. Solar Impulse is a philosophy. We can reach the moon, send Humans to Mars, fix global warming, make all new cars electric, feed the hungry and solve poverty.
China does Electric Cars using Better Place battery swapping
All new cars to be sold in China are to be electric, running on 100% clean renewable energy. All that is needed is political will. China seems to have that political will. They figured they’ve got enough pollution in their rapidly growing cities, they figured they’d like to be energy independent, they figured they need to make all their cars electric now.
Switchable electric batteries are the only solution for the full scale implementation of electric cars for the mass market today. Project http://betterplace.com is implementing a worldwide standard for battery swapping, charging connectors and re-charge infrastructure.
Better Place, China Southern Grid Sign Strategic Agreement Centered on Battery Switch Model
April 27, 2011
Guangzhou Municipal Government Signs Agreement to Aid New Partnership
TEL AVIV (April 27, 2011) – At a signing ceremony today in Israel with officials from Guangzhou, Better Place announced a strategic agreement with China Southern Power Grid Co. (CSG), the world’s eighth largest utility according to the Fortune Global 500. The agreement, which focuses on joint electric car and infrastructure projects in CSG’s service areas, will further advance electric cars with switchable batteries in China. The agreement calls for the companies to open a battery switch station and joint education center in Guangzhou before the end of the year, while working to formalize a joint-venture partnership.
Source: http://betterplace.com
This is relevant on ARMdevices.net because electric cars can have more ARM Processors in them than any other types of cars. An average electric car may have 47 ARM processors in it. Also, those need better wirelessly internet connected interactive in-car navigation systems (probably Android based) than any other car. As those need to make it easy for the driver to find re-charge stations, to find and order a battery swap, to monitor and manage battery capacity and more.
JXD M1000 $40 PS One video games TV console emulator
Posted by – April 17, 2011
JXD provides this affordable games console based on the Actions G1000 processor for games emulation of several consoles up to Playstation One.
Zinwell iPAD2TV, wireless iPad/iPhone video transmitter
Posted by – April 16, 2011
Dock a little thing on your Apple product and transmit video wirelessly from your i-device to your TV.
Cwlinux.com embedded software and hardware solutions
Posted by – April 16, 2011
Category: Software, Other, Exclusive videos, Freescale, Texas Instruments, VIA, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android, Ubuntu
They provide ARM Powered hardware and software solutions, based on Freescale, Texas Instruments, VIA and other.
Bluekey Bluetooth Keyboards
Posted by – April 15, 2011
Some nice Bluetooth keyboard designs. They also explain some of the Bluetooth 3.0 standard advantages to come in their upcoming ARM Cortex-M3 powered Bluetooth 3.0 input devices, for lower power consumption, faster response time, easier setup.
