Moin
Last week I had some problems with my HTC Hero Android phone. The mobile is awesome no question about that, but there is one funny “feature” which I don’t need at all and what caused me some trouble. The Hero (maybe other mobiles too) has the nice feature to switch from build-in loudspeakers to external earphones (via the jack on top) via software switch and not like other devices via hardware switch. This causes a problem when the process is not responding when you plug in the earphone. First impression is “hardware error” and you want to send back your phone to the repair center. But wait. This is a software bug (although the T-Mobile stores are not aware of that). Thanks to the Androidforum ere are two solutions for that.
The easy but not always working way
Turn off the phone by holding down the Hangup button for some time.
Plug in your earphones
Turn on the phone (if you see the earphone symbol everything is fine now)
Moin
Since 5 minutes I push my local weather station data (which can be seen in near real time here) to the weather underground network. See the sticker on the right side or this cool one here:
If you ever wondered if geeks are social here is the answer. Yes they are and they are very social and organising some very cool events which are called “geekends”. Combination of weekend and geek. Not just going for hiking with friends. No developing, building, ironing and coding very cool and geeky things.
As being a reader of the very cool MAKE magazin I read the article on a brain machine the other day. This project is great for a geekend. Something to build, some hardware, software and after all a great toy to play with.
The idea is to build one of these Brainwave (aka Light and Sound Machines) on your own with a little micro controller. Lets see if we can optimize the hard and software a little bit. The original one is based on an other project and therefore the hard and software is not optimizes for a LSM.
More Information on the original project you can find the the blog here.
Stay tuned to my blog to read more on this geekend.
Just found the violet web page with cool devices. One is a RFID Scanner and small little RFID tags called Mir:ror. You can easily program actions depending on the tag. As tags you can use Ztamp:s or small little Nabaztags. Have a look at the video:
One other nice thing is an internet controlled lamp called Dal:dal. Strongly reminds me to the EOLUS lamp.
