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Harness Android Open Accessory Protocol with Electric Sheep

Harness Android Open Accessory Protocol with Electric Sheep

16 November 2011 by Discuss (0)

If you are the sort that likes to tinker and come up with your own accessories and apps for your Android device electric Sheep will tickle your fancy. Electric Sheep comes from a company called SparkFun and can hook to your Android device using a USB port. The little Electric Sheep board takes advantage of …

Google ADK DIY project shows music beta song meta data

Google ADK DIY project shows music beta song meta data

12 October 2011 by Discuss (1)

If you had, your hands on the Google ADK board a week or so ahead of its official launch what would you do? Sit and stare gleefully at your gear or get down to business by making a cool device using the board to show off how easy the Google ADK board is to use? …

Ben Heck uses Android Open Accessory Development Kit to soothe fussy baby

Ben Heck uses Android Open Accessory Development Kit to soothe fussy baby

23 August 2011 by Discuss (1)

When it comes to modding things, one of the more prolific and well known modders is Ben Heck. Heck gained fame modding game consoles into portable versions. He now has his own web show and has turned his modding skills to all sorts of uses. The latest DIY project Heck has got into was a …

Dude builds his own RC Android mascot out of a trash can

Dude builds his own RC Android mascot out of a trash can

15 July 2011 by Discuss (5)

I love geeky DIY projects and when they are robotic in nature I like them even more. This one is particularly cool because it’s both a robot and a RC device and it happens to look like our pal the green Android mascot. The robot started out as a small trashcan that the builder painted …

IOIO for Android detailed: Project samples from USB breakout board [Video]

IOIO for Android detailed: Project samples from USB breakout board [Video]

08 April 2011 by Discuss (5)

We mentioned SparkFun’s brilliant new IOIO for Android earlier this week, a USB I/O breakout board for Android smartphones which turns your handset into a super-Arduino of sorts. Now the brains behind the board, Ytai, has spilled the beans on the project, including some sample code and a handful of ideas that you can use …

NOOKcolor Root for DIY in-Auto Awesomeness [Video]

NOOKcolor Root for DIY in-Auto Awesomeness [Video]

22 February 2011 by Discuss (0)

Oh you didn’t know that NOOKcolor had been rooted and taken far beyond its innocent book-reading beginnings? Oh it’s been brought far, far beyond. In a video posted by juicedigital, a rooted version of the Barnes & Noble Android tablet is shown to not only be rocking pretty hard playing music, surfing the internet, and …

Crochet your own Android robot

Crochet your own Android robot

07 February 2011 by Discuss (0)

I’ve never made any craft type stuff that required a needle and thread or yarn in this case. The extent of my sewing ability ends at putting a button back on a shirt. If you like crochet or would like to learn to crochet with a geeky project here it is.

Android Cooler for Google Flavored Drink Containment

Android Cooler for Google Flavored Drink Containment

07 January 2011 by Discuss (1)

So there’s this guy named DaCavy75, and he has a notion. His amazing notion idea is to use his sweet industrial design skills (and craftsman skills, not to mention it, ) to create his very own gigantic Android. It’s the size of a big kid! And not only that, it’s a cooler. You can fill …

Android TV DIY Kit Details: Cost, Difficulty Level, Release Date, Bricking, Google TV?

Android TV DIY Kit Details: Cost, Difficulty Level, Release Date, Bricking, Google TV?

31 December 2010 by Discuss (0)

As you very well may have read a few days ago, a group called vidtonic will be showing off a built-it-yourself Android powered television at CES 2011. At the first announcement, not many details were given – that’s all changing now. Jeff Cody of vidtonic posted a big Q and A list today listing several …

Hybrid combines iPhone/Android/Game Boy into geeky mashup

Hybrid combines iPhone/Android/Game Boy into geeky mashup

30 December 2010 by Discuss (2)

This may well be one of the strangest DIY things I have ever laid eyes on. A dude going by the name Goteking has taken am Android smartphone, crammed it inside a gutted game boy, and them put a fake iPhone 4 in the mix.

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