Virtualette V1, A Tiny Powerful Microcomputer
https://www.electronics-lab.com/virtualette-v1-tiny-powerful-microcomputer/
Designed by SRKH Designs, Virtualette V1 is a small dual stack microcomputer that can run Android and Linux operating systems, for network-wide IoT and mobile edge computing solutions and electronics DIY projects. Virtualette V1 is designed based on the dual-core Cortex-A7 Allwinner A20 SoC, with 1GB DDR3L base memory, 8GB onboard NAND flash, and a […]
Android Things, Google’s IoT Platform
https://www.electronics-lab.com/android-things-googles-iot-platform/
Google had launched Android Things, a new comprehensive IoT platform for building smart devices on top of Android APIs and Google’s own services. Android Things is now available as a developer preview. Android Things was basically launched as an enhancement for Brillo, Android based OS used for embedded development in particular for low-power IoT devices, […]
ElectroCalc – Electrical and Electronics Calculator
https://www.electronics-lab.com/electrocalc-electrical-electronics-calculator/
“Tiago” tipped us with his latest Android App. His app, ElectroCalc is a fast calculator for electrical and electronic circuits. The calculator includes many tools and comes in a free and a Pro version. Check it out! ElectroCalc – Electrical and Electronics Calculator – [Link]
Brillo, the new OS for IoT by Google
https://www.electronics-lab.com/brillo-new-os-iot-google/
Google had launched Brillo, a new Android based OS used for embedded development – in particular for low-power, IoT devices. Brillo brings the simplicity and speed of software development to hardware for IoT with an embedded OS, core services, developer kit, and developer console. Brillo works in conjunction with Weave, an open, standardized communications protocol […]
How to control Arduino board using an Android phone
https://www.electronics-lab.com/control-arduino-board-using-android-phone/
Kerimil, user on Arduino Forum, submitted his project which focuses on establishing communication between an Arduino board and an android mobile using bluetooth: The idea is to gain access to hardware on Android devices (accelerometers, gyro, wifi connectivity, gps, GPRS, touchscreen, text to speech and speech to text) and/or use it to relay data to […]
ESP8266 controlled with Android app (MIT App Inventor)
https://www.electronics-lab.com/esp8266-controlled-android-app-mit-app-inventor/
Rui Santos from Random Nerd Tutorials tipped us with his latest tutorial on how to build an Android app using the MIT App Inventor software that allows you to control the ESP8266 GPIOs: ESP8266 controlled with Android app (MIT App Inventor) – [Link]
How to Control ESP8266 GPIO using Android App
https://www.electronics-lab.com/control-esp8266-gpio-using-android-app/
This video will guide you to control gpio of esp8266 from android app in details. so that you can build your first home automation project easily. How to Control ESP8266 GPIO using Android App – [Link]
Android app turns smartphones into a seismic network
https://www.electronics-lab.com/android-app-turns-smartphones-into-a-seismic-network/
Researchers at UC Berkeley (California) have developed an Android app that can detect vibrations from earthquakes using the standard sensors integrated into smartphones. Android app turns smartphones into a seismic network – [Link]
Nanocounter: Frequency Counter with an Android Interface
https://www.electronics-lab.com/nanocounter-frequency-counter-with-an-android-interface/
Andy published his accurate and open source frequency counter that uses an Android phone as a display. It’s based on a high accuracy temperature compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) fed into a phase locked loop (PLL) to create a high frequency reference clock. The reference clock along with the input signal is processed by a Xilinx […]
Arduino DS18B20 Thermometer on iOS or Android
https://www.electronics-lab.com/arduino-ds18b20-thermometer-on-ios-or-android/
maroelawerner @ instructables.com has a tutorial on how to display temperature data on an Android or iOS device using Arduino and Blynk app. In this Instructable I am going to attempt to show you how to put together a little project to use the Blynk app (optainable at http://www.blynk.cc/) to display the temperature remotely on a […]