Posts By: wharton

Force Impact Measuring Hockey Helmet

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Playing a lot of sports growing up I took a lot of hits. Thinking about it last year playing rugby, I wish I had something that could measure the force of hits, and a few other body vitals (temp, sweat, etc..). Having just receive an arduino I started hooking up sensors and leds. I deiced… Read more »

POV Live Wallpaper

Posted by & filed under Android, Projects.

This was a quick hack of a live wallpaper. My Droid 2 doesn’t have a Gyro so it makes it’s calculations based off the accelerometer. If i get the time I will look at supporting the gyro. This is also my first app (slash) software to be pirated. I guess that’s cool. Check out a… Read more »

Redwall

Posted by & filed under Android, Java, Programming, Projects.

Redwall before it had a name, it started as a project with some pretty strange requirements. I wanted to build something on android with social-esque features, but I didn’t want to pay for lots of servers to handle massive amounts traffic. In fact, I didn’t want to spend any money or time after I built… Read more »