Category tablet pcs hacks

android hacks, Battery, case, ipad, pipo, tablet pcs hacks

iPad external battery case forced to work with a non-iPad tablet

[Carnivore] uses a Pipo Max M1 tablet. It’s an Android device that is very responsive thanks t the 1.6 GHz dual-core processor and it runs Jellybean (latest version of Android OS). The one thing he wasn’t so happy with is battery life. Under heavy load it lasts about three hours. When reading an eBook that [...]

Brady Phenicie
October 2, 2012

epaper, Kindle, tablet pcs hacks, weather display

Turning a Kindle into a weather display

Since the first time [Matt] saw an e-paper display, the idea of using it as a regularly updated, non real-time display consumed him. It really is the perfect platform for very readable calendars, agendas or, as [Matt] found out, a weather display. [Matt]‘s build uses a server to fetch and parse weather data and forecasts from NOAA. [...]

Brian Benchoff
September 17, 2012