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Notable technical stuff from another of my Blog 

  • The Old Blog is here Aj's Old Blog 
  • Custom Android ROM generation and new hardware interface for a Micromax Funbook for an interactive table for a Coffee Franchise
    • Needed a new touch screen with deeper depth sensing to be interfaced to an android tablet.
    • A hackable Android tablet was found and its hardware enabled to make changes.
    • Cyanogenmod was a popular alternative Android variant. The CM10 Android ROM was compiled for 24 hours and its ROM updated to a stock Micromax Funbook (P300?)
    • Google apps were also run separately.
    • A different touch screen needed for this was interfaced to Android and was found to be working satisfactorily.
    • The link to a related blog is Cyanogenmod 10 (Android ROM) on Micromax Funbook
  • Howto build a tiny Home projector
    • Needed to build a DIY projector 
    • By taking apart the reflector backing from a phones display one can get transparency like film.
    • Using a strong light and some proper lenses, a projector can be built.
    • A type candy bar phones display was used as it was the cheapest to afford making mistakes on. And also it was borrowed from somebody else too 😀
    • The projector build and relevant info is here DIY Tiny Mobile Phone Projector
  • Simplified Medical Prescription System 
    • Learning to use a computer and be familiar with the keys etc was a cumbersome process then.
    • So to simply process a Kitchen order terminal like interface was developed. One could add/delete medicines,  the duration of the course and also add/delete notes for home care. 
    • This was before the Raspberry PI time, so an HP thin client was bought from the refurbished market and Linux was customised to provide the UI. Interestingly maybe the inspiration was a similar ncurses based UI used even in the McDonalds kitchen.
    • A dot matrix printer was also interfaced via parallel port and it could print out Prescriptions.
    • It was actively used for a few years.
    • The blog link is here Medical Prescription System
  • Howto build Digital Photoframe using an SBC
    • Need to mimic the cheap photoframes that were in vogue then.
    • Used a discarded SBC and found a tiny linux distrib tinycore and  built one.
    • Link here   DIY Digital Photoframe
  • Accelerometer demo on the Nokia Xpressmusic 5800 phone
  • Ubuntu image generation using ubiquity
    • How to customise ubuntu and generate the OS and associated problems
    • This was used to create an Ubuntu image for a school
    • Link here Ubuntu Image Generate
  • Autorickshaw Media Player
  • Java app on a Motorola Ming Phone
  • Nokia phone LCDs as alternate display on a PC
  • Display change enables different UI On Nokia phone
  • External USB adapter support on Linux
  • And many more. Head over to the other blog.

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