BeepTimer is a successful experiment in Human-Computer Interaction. The question to test was the possibility to control a device using one acceleration sensor and one button. As already mentioned, it is possible even with OS functions intervening (long button press issues a shutdown of the device). The user controls the device by tilting it and by pushing the button. The description of possible gestures is provided on the project page.
Archive for July, 2010
BeepTimer for STM32 Primer released
Monday, July 26th, 2010GraspForth on STM32 Primer released
Monday, July 19th, 2010GraspForth is a simple, portable implementation of a Forth system in C. It works every 32-bit architecture GCC compiles for. The STM32 Primer devices were introduced on this blog earlier. These systems were combined in the GraspForth on STM32 Primer project. If you are interested, read the rest of the project’s description.
PDQt 0.8 released
Sunday, July 11th, 2010PDQt is at version 0.8 now.
The function of the Action button was divided between the Shift button (Shift key) and the Action button (Return key).
Furthermore, now PDQt recognizes circling gestures. Circling around the center of the program’s screen clockwise increases current value, circling counter-clockwise decreases it.
You may download the new package for Cacko and maybe other Qtopia based distributions from this page. Otherwise you might want to download the source code and compile it for yourself – you will need only Qt3 compilation environment on Win32 or Linux.
PDQt 0.75 released
Friday, July 9th, 2010PDQt is at version 0.75 now.
The key map was adapted for a usual computer keyboard; Space is the Play button now instead of C, Shift is the Action button instead of D et cetera. Furthermore, mouse wheel can be used now for changing values. Look into the help dialog for explainations.
You may download the new package for Cacko and maybe other Qtopia based distributions from this page. Otherwise you might want to download the source code and compile it for yourself – you will need only Qt3 compilation environment on Win32 or Linux.
PDQt 0.7 released
Sunday, July 4th, 2010PDQt is at version 0.7 now. There are no visible additions or corrections on the user side. All changes were internal. You may download the new package for Cacko and maybe other Qtopia based distributions from this page. Otherwise you might want to download the source code and compile it for yourself – you will need only Qt3 compilation environment on Win32 or Linux.