From Here to There

Random Ramblings from the Garrity Family

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IOIO

For Christmas I got a IOIOMint. That’s a cool little bridge device which lets you connect external hardware to an Android device. I got some time to play with it tonight, so I went...

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Oracle v. Google

Google finished May on a high note, didn’t they? Groklaw has all of the details, of course, but it all comes down to this: So long as the specific code used to implement a...

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Torque

Many, many years ago, I worked on a data acquisition unit for a Formula 1 racing car. It was a very clever contraption. When it worked, it could collect eight channels of data while...

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Goodreads

We’ve been playing around with a site called Goodreads lately. It’s a site for tracking all of the books you’ve read. Kind of like LibraryThing, but we’ve found it a bit more engaging. It...

Instant Mix 0

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Instant Mix

We’ve been using Google Music for a couple of weeks now. There’s a lot to like about it. We’ve got more than 50MB of music in it. The UI is responsive and easy to...

Google Music Beta 0

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Google Music Beta

I’ve started messing around with the new beta of Google Music. So far, I’m fairly impressed. The big problem with the Xoom is that it can’t hold much music until the get the SD...

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Another Teapot

The teapot picture I posted the other day has been bothering me because of the various glitches (like normals on top). It’s been hard to get time on the dev machine because Peter’s been...

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AVA

One of the things I’ve found interesting messing with my Xoom is how much fun it is to be able to access all of the different sensors. Now imagine what it would be like...

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Renderscript Teapot

Newell’s teapot is sort of the hello world of graphics weenies. I don’t really feel comfortable with a graphics library until I can draw the teapot with it. Here’s my first whack at it...