Siliconfish

Hobby blog about tech tips I've picked up, projects I'm working on, or links to useful information and cool stuff. I'm an Electrical Engineer and professional Analog IC designer for 25 years playing in my spare time. Arduino, hacking consumer electronics, video game hardware, satellite TV, PC building, Android apps, appliance repairs and whatever else that interests me.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Debugging and Publishing the Blinker App

For entertainment I decided to publish a real app to the marketplace. I wanted to see what it was like, if there were any unknown obstacle...

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Android java app - Blinking camera flash LED

I'm developing hardware control applications for the Android phone platform to replicate functionality I've previously used in gadge...

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Android app continued v: time, tones, and GUI

As stated in the previous couple of posts, I want to take advantage of the android phone/tablet platform to do a lot of the cool widgets I...

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Android application - A GUI turning on the flash

In this post the goal is to just to build a GUI with buttons that turn on and off the camera flash. The way I see it, there are generall...

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Getting started developing apps on Android smartphones

The smartphone is microcontroller with a bunch of juicy built in hardware, so I should be able to replicate a lot of my Arduino projects on...

Monday, December 26, 2011

Shopping cart locking boots???

Today I was shopping at a grocery store I don't usually go to. I parked at the far edge of the lot because I had to go to another sto...

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