Chickenfoot, an Android controlled car anyone can make

Hi everyone,

just a little post to introduce Chickenfoot, an Android controlled car anyone can make! Chickenfoot engine is written in Python, thanks to Nanpy (https://github.com/nanpy) and composed by a RaspberryPI, an Arduino, and the basic stuff that you can find on any RC car. I've also added some cool electronic stuff, such as a temperature sensor, and I'm working to integrate video streaming using a RaspberryPI Camera. You can find the repository for the Android app here

and going to https://github.com/chickenfootcar/chickenfoot you can find the engine that run on a Chickenfoot car.

This is a video I took days ago that shows Chickenfoot running attached to my mac.

Wikipedia Mobile

Hi all,

as you can see from Android market this month a new important app has come among us: it's Wikipedia Mobile by Wikimedia Team, the official app to easily bring the knowledge on your mobile devices! This app is more than a simple web view showing Wikipedia contents, is full of features, like the possibility to save pages, a dedicated history to track all pages you look at, full languages support and more.. but the cool thing I discovered is that it's free and relased under GPL 2! That's awesome!! Finally I can start giving my contribute to Wikipedia as developer! I'm so excited about that, I love Wikipedia and its finalities, it's not only the best classmate I ever had during my studies, it's an important resource for humans, an untouchable heritage. As expected guys working behind this project are awesome, very willing to help you and very good in programming, they wrote a good and easy guide to modify code! The app is developed using Phonegap so this makes it portable on other platforms like iOS and Windows Phone... Well, what else? I invite you to join the Wikimedia Team and become part of something of cool and important for everyone! Just fork the project and ask everything you need at #wikimedia-mobile on Freenode(IRC) or alternatively contribute opening bugs..!!

Waiting for you ^^

=.4.S.=

SomaFM App

Hi everybody,

I'm back to write here to show my last work for SomaFM radio, the Android official application, derived from my previous project Somadroid.. has been an hard work, Android SDK is a bit more complex than I thought and media player needed a lot of workaround to get working.. bad surprises :( :( anyway now all goes well and we are waiting for tester's feedback ... here I'll show you some screenshot taken from the emulator and explain some feature of this app:

These four screen shots represent the easier part of this application ^^ the last shows we have also a landscape layout shown on phone's rotation..

Channels tab: in this tab you can see all the channels available on SomaFM and you can order them by genre, favourites and number of listeners.

Bookmarks tab: in this tab you can see all your favourites song played on SomaFM. You can send your entire bookmarks list by email or access to a menu ( with share I mean share through your apps, like Twitter, Facebook, G+, Messaging etc ) as shown right here:

News tab: just a tab showing the news, with a personal engine to catch links ( no success with standard tools :\ )

Support tab: just a list of links that redirect you on SomaFM store for supporting the radio..

Here we are in the painful part, the Playing tab ^^ This tab is shown every time a channel is clicked on the Channel tab and start play the channel ( we have also a notification icon, obviously :P )... here you can favourite a song, share it, search it around Google or Amazon store, favourite the channel, see its info and share it...

Finally I developed the widget to fetch and play stations directly from your home screen..



You can stay updated about this app here or on SomaFM twitter page. You can also ask SomaFM for a trial version by writing to dj(at)somafm(dot)com and report all bugs to me directly.. The app will be sell on the Android Market soon but I don't know anything at the moment about its cost..