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Autonomous Android Phonebot Tracks, Chases Toy Like Housecat

Autonomous Android Phonebot Tracks, Chases Toy Like Housecat

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Powerful, cheap, open platform from obsolete phone, OpenCV, Arduino, RC toy.

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New in the Maker Shed: IOIO for Android

New in the Maker Shed: IOIO for Android

By Michael Castor

Michael Castor

I am the Evangelist for the Maker Shed. It seems that there is no limit to my making interests. I'm a tinkerer at heart and have a passion for solving problems and figuring out how things work. When not working for Make I can be found falling off my unicycle, running in adverse weather conditions, skiing down the nearest hill, restoring vintage motorcycles, or working on my car.

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We’ve had Making Android Accessories with IOIO in the Maker Shed for a while now and now we have the IOIO for Android to accompany it. Check out this amazing little device!

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Android Controlled Interactive Mirror Prototype

Android Controlled Interactive Mirror Prototype

By Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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This interactive mirror by Open Gadgets uses a IOIO Microcontroller with a Bluetooth module to communicate with an Android phone. There are a few apps such as a picture viewer, a magic 8-ball, and the phone can even stream video to the mirror.

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SparkFun at Android Open: IOIO Untethered and Meet the Electric Sheep

SparkFun at Android Open: IOIO Untethered and Meet the Electric Sheep

By Brian Jepson

Brian Jepson

I'm a tinkerer and finally reached the point where I fix more things than I break. When I'm not tinkering, I'm probably editing a book for Maker Media.

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One of the projects featured at the Mini Maker Faire was Ytai Ben-Tsvi’s IOIO, an Android hardware accessory kit that predated the Open Accessory Development Kit (ADK), and is a bit simpler to use: there’s no need to do any programming on the microcontroller, you can load firmware updates from the Android phone, and the Android programming side is pretty darn easy, too. On top of that, the IOIO supports a lot more phones than the ADK does: while the ADK requires Android 2.3.4 or greater, the IOIO will talk to a phone as old as the G1!

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