Live Android on Laptop or PC via LiveCD or USB

Try operating system Android is the desire of many technology enthusiasts. It's great if the test run it on your laptop or desktop PC without using any application that put what. The following method lets you run Android from external memory card or USB or CD on the real hardware of the computer.   Only need to download two files android-x86-1.6-r2.iso and UNetbootin. Then install the following steps: 1. First prepare a USB storage space...

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Cortex-A15 Processor

The ARM Cortex™-A15 MPCore™ processor is the highest-performance licensable processor the industry has ever seen. It delivers unprecedented processing capability, combined with low power consumption to enable compelling products in markets ranging from smartphones, tablets, mobile computing, high-end digital home, servers and wireless infrastructure. The unique combination of performance, functionality, and power-efficiency...

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FPGA tool on Android platform

Robei is the world smallest EDA tool for FPGA design and simulation. With this tool, you can design your hardware visually at anywhere, and view the simulation result through waveform. It is a tiny, fast software for hardware prototyping and verification. Imagine that when you are waiting for a bus, on a business travel or laying on the bed, suddenly a genius idea for a piece of hardware showing to your mind, how can you implement it with...

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Android to Microcontroller via Bluetooth

1. Choose a bluetooth device for your microcontroller. The first thing you need to do is decide which bluetooth device you want to use for your microcontroller. You will want a device that you can communicate with via the serial protocol.  I used the BlueSmirf Gold modem from Sparkfun. You will probably have to solder some headers to the chip, I used male headers to make it simple to plug into my breadboard. 2.  Connect the bluetooth...

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Open source Linux tablet showcases KDE Plasma Active technology

Members of the KDE Plasma Active community announced an open source tablet platform that runs the mobile-oriented version of KDE's Plasma UI layer on a MeeGo Linux-based "Mer" operating system. The seven-inch "Spark" tablet features a 1GHz AMLogic ARM Cortex-A9 processor with a Mali-400 GPU, offers 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, an SD slot, and a projected price of about 200 Euros ($262).The Spark was announced with fairly minimal...

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