USB OTG goes webcam

This time in my mini series of testing USB on the N810 tablet - I bring you external webcam. The following video shows mplayer playing v4l stream from the device. See details after the jump.

Nokia N810 + Creative webcam + USB OTG + mplayer on Vimeo.

Arduino interaction

As promised in my previous post. So this one was a bit harder to implement, because I couldn’t find working kernel modules, and had to compile them myself. There is a good discussion about arduino in ITT forums, and other blog posts, but still this was something I wanted to try.

Nokia N810 meets an [...]

Expanding your storage

I know this is and old topic by blogging standards, but because I found so simple and cheap to use external usb flash-drives with N810, I decided to write a quick walktrough.

Get yourself a female-female usb adapter. I ordered from this funny sounding store on eBay, and it took 1-2weeks for it to ship to [...]

GPE Calendar + Erminig + Google calendar installation

A few days back there was great a blog post by linuxuk.org about syncing GPE Calendar with Google calendar and further with Outlook.
I wanted to try just the GPE Calendar to Google synchronization on OS2008 , and realised that it needed some fiddling to get it working. Here are the steps:

Find and decide where to [...]

Using gpsd in a simple perl-script

I was playing around with gps-software on the N810 and decided to try how hard it would be to make a simple perl-script that uses the gpsd on OS2008. As a side note: I really don’t know perl at all, and don’t even like it - I actually hate it for some reason…
I decided to [...]

N810 and the adaptive screen

I finally got my N810 and I’m really pleased with it. It looks nice, feels nice and works like a charm. Thanks Nokia.
However, there’s one thing that puzzles me. Why can’t you force the brightness of the screen to go to maximum. Even if you set the screen brightness to it’s max, it still [...]

All discount codes already working?

Update (5.1.2008 02:35):
Confirmation mail came from Nokia, codes should now work for: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Canadians have more info next week. But thank you Nokia for the discount and the device!
After Jan Jansen’s blog post I decided to do some clicking around Nokia’s [...]

Nokia N810 as a bluetooth GPS-module?

Is it possible to use N810 as a bluetooth GPS module? For example GPS might be needed on a laptop, or to test a cellphone application. At first the idea seems a bit stupid, but I’m sure someone somewhere might appreciate the functionality.
I’m pretty sure it won’t work out of the box, but creating an [...]