I don’t often get all excited about a piece of technology, but at Google I/O today, Google announced that Arduino will be part of the hardware part of the the Android Accessory Development Kit.
The applications for an open hardware platform mashed with an open device platform have my head spinning.
What would you do with something like this?
I love my EVO, but the battery life is really really terrible. Often without any use, it wont standby for 7 or 8 hours.
While traveling the last two weeks I tried a new setting:
Now it will standby without use for 24 hours and consistantly makes it through my workday with moderate use on a single charge.
It doesn’t seem to have effected any of the phone’s operation except battery life. This setting just shuts off the network connection when no apps are using it and they are still able to fetch data when you’ve set them to.
3x extension by unchecking a box. Not too shabby.
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