Tag Archives: Mobile

Bluetooth remote app on Android

My first Google code project. It’s an app for Android that connects to a remote bluetooth module over serial, which in turn can control various remote controlled vehicles, planes etc. The project is here. Feel free to check it out. It’s quite basic at the moment. It is based on this Bluetooth terminal program and the Bluetooth examples from Android.

Here’s the screen. Quite cryptic at this point. The background shows the ‘chatter’ with the module, sending the throttle, pitch, aileron and rudder. As you can see, it’s not quite error-free at the moment, so I wouldn’t use it to control a fighter plane quite yet.

I’m planning on using it on the quadcopter, if I can adapt the protocol to be fast and responsive enough.

 

My first android app on market

My first android app on Android market is here.

It checks for updates on news sites and uses Google’s own IP based push mechanism to push you a discrete update when your favourite news paper has been updated. It uses little battery, and seems to me like quite a cool way of providing pushed information.