Category: android
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Symbai field site testing
Some photos from Shakti Lamba who is currently testing Symbai in the Chhattisgarh state in north eastern India. The whole system is solar powered, and provides it’s own networking via the Raspberry Pi synchronisation node shown here. The android tablets also recharge from the same power source. The Raspberry Pi networking is a direct descendant…
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Hindi translations in Symbai
A couple of screenshots of the hindi version of Symbai – our solar powered Raspberry Pi/Android anthropological research tool. As is usual we’re still having a few issues with the unicode but it’s nearly there. We’ve been working on this software for the last few months, making sure the data (including photos and audio recordings…
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Mongoose 2000: Group composition
I’ve recently been building the Mongoose 2000 “group composition” tool that the researchers will use for recording information about a whole pack of mongooses (and synchronise data via a Raspberry Pi providing a local wifi node) in their field site in Uganda. As I wrote a bit about before, one of the interesting things about…
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Bumper Crop
Bumper crop is an android game I’ve just started working on with Dr Misha Myers as part of the Play to Grow project: “exploring and testing the use of computer games as a method of storytelling and learning to engage urban users in complexities of rural development, agricultural practices and issues facing farmers in India.”…
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Mongoose 2000 testing interrupted by the wildlife
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Procedural landscape demo on OUYA/Android
A glitchy procedural, infinite-ish landscape demo running on Android and OUYA. Use the left joystick to move around on OUYA, or swiping on Android devices with touchscreens. Here’s the apk, and the source is here. It’s great to be able to have a single binary that works across all these devices – from OUYA’s TV…
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Open Sauces: A structured recipe notebook
It’s been busy in the android department this week. Here’s a prototype recipe notebook for open sauces. At this point it’s primarily a test of a drag/drop interface to make it possible for anyone to make the recipe graphs we explored visualising in October. I’m testing it with the recipes designed for FoAM’s recent Smoke…
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Mongoose 2000
A screen shot from the Mongoose 2000 project, we now have most of the ‘pup focal’ interfaces working and syncing their data via the Raspberry Pi. This is the interface for recording a pup aggression event – including the identity of the aggressive mongoose and some information on the cause and severity. Each mongoose has…
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Ouya development experiments
The Ouya is a tiny game console which is designed for promoting indy games rather than traditional high budget productions. It’s cheap compared to standard games hardware, and all the games are free to play at least in demo form. It’s very easy to start making games with as it’s based on Android – you…
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Mongoose 2000
Mongoose 2000 is a system I’m developing for the Banded Mongoose Research Project. It’s a behavioural recording system for use in remote areas with sporadic internet or power. The project field site is located in Uganda in the countryside and it needs to run for long time frames, so there are big challenges when it…