Autor: webfraggle

2. Februar, 2013

THE KNOB III – BlueTooth 4.0 aka BLE

Here is a new Version of my rotating Knob. It now uses Bluetooth Low Energy aka BT 4.0 to communicate to the iOS device. I’m using the BLE Shield by RedBear Labs. I also coded a native App to have access to the iOS music library. So now it kan be used as a replacement for that cool, but expensive, infotainment systems integrated in cars. […]

18. September, 2012

THE KNOB II – Wifi-Hardware

You know, I’m addicted to rotating knobs. And this is my new version. This one works over Wifi. So it works for desktop and mobile, native and Adobe Air. It is build with an Arduino Leonardo, a RedFly Wifi Shield and a ProtoShield with 10 buttons, 1 rotary encoder and 3 LEDs. On the software side I’m using the OSC protocol over UDP which is […]

26. Februar, 2012

AS3 Simple UnTAR

The challenge: How to distribute additional content-packages for an Adobe Air App for iOS and Desktop. The Answer: Inspired by this article I started coding my own ActionsScript tar version to unpack gnu-tar files. This format has some benefits. First it is one file, easy downloadable and shareble. Because it’s uncompressed, it is faster than any compressed format like zip. This doesn’t really matter because […]

19. November, 2011

Adobe AIR Gyroscope Native Extension with Euler Angles (roll, pitch, yaw) for iOS

UPDATE: I have released the extension including source on google code with some changes. Euler Gyroscope ANE on Google Code I baked my very first AIR iOS Native Extension. It’s just an adapted version of this version from Adobe. Because in my opinion the data of radians per second aren’t really good to handle. So I looked into Apples API documentation and found out that […]

8. November, 2011

Convert PNG to JPEG XR for use in Flash / Flex and AS3

A new feature in Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3 is the feature to use JPEG XR. A enhanced JPEG format. But how to generate or convert JPEG XR files. I found no Photoshop Plugin. All open source tools aren’t able because of licensing problems. The only tool i found is XN View, which can convert PNG files including the alpha channel to JPEG […]

8. November, 2011

Adobe AIR 3: How to build a Captive Runtime, Standalone Bundle Executable App

The challenge was to build a Adobe Air 3 Standalone Executable. Also called a „Captive Runtime“ or a Bundle. Here are some better descriptions: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/air3-install-and-deployment-options.html But it was not so easy as it sounds because the order of the adt options are very important! If the order isn’t correct you get the error „-storetype is required„. And if you are behind a firewall or no […]

18. September, 2011

Build an iPad app in a few hours.

The challenge: „We need a small iPad app. Just four buttons, every button opens a video. Today!“ I thought, „OK“. I had only a freshly installed Mac and an Apple developer account.

7. August, 2011

Kinderlieder Karaoke Update

Meine Kinderlieder App ist im iTunes Store in der Versionn 1.2 erschienen. Neu ist eine speziell angepasste iPad Version. http://apps.xplore-it.de/ Viel Spaß damit.