sending gmail attachments from android
Here is a simple class to send yourself a gmail from your Arndoid phone. You’ll need mail.jar in your eclipse project, but the rest is just this one class below. We are using this to test on the chair bot (OpenPAW). It is very useful to send all the debug files right to your email...
oculus on kick starter
Now you pledge support (buy a robot or a shirt) to support Colin’s garage alliance of robot builders and coders. Kick Starter is a really cool way to crowd source funds and interest for your new project. Lots of clever devices you wouldn’t get with the current, odious venture capital game. The bot has also...
new battery and chair mount
From drawing board to being ready to install in single day? Colin, same guy that is now selling wifi robots, salvaged an old power drill to go with the new Lithium-ion battery pack for my chair. More Ardiuno and IOIO protects are possible now that I have a power supply I can remove and charge...
oculus developer
New updates to open source projects this week. You can get from SVN Trunk or just get this jar file. Basically this is a developer API to control the bot. You can send commands and get notifications about changes. This lets a 3rd party application hook in even without the web based GUI. So, you...
red route one
Testing android GPS and wheeling around my block. Will use this course as the base line for testing openPAW.
oculus available soon
My friend Colin has project that I’ve been helping him test for the last few months.. and now oculus finally ready for market! Colin has made bikes and my custom climbing rig in the past, but he has always wanted to make affordable wifi robots. The key to oculus is the low cost but fully...