How to Protect Your Milk from Aliens (Or, Rapid Prototyping with the BlackBerry PlayBook)

Fredrik of the RIM Advanced UX Prototyping team in Malmo Sweden showcases an Arduino prototyping project controlled by a BlackBerry PlayBook, which features an infrared sensor mounted on a servo that can be used, among other things, to protect your milk from aliens. This video demonstrates the PlayBook tablet's ability to integrate with a number of prototyping components. For more information, check out the BlackBerry Developer Blog: http://devblog.blackberry.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• The Astonishing Tribe
• BlackBerry
• BlackBerry PlayBook
• PlayBook Prototyping
• Arduino
• Arduino PlayBook
• PlayBook Infrared
• RIM Sweden

[ThunderShock2005]

i don't think i need that on my playbook but think i want the guy instead.

he's so hot. he has got that hot swedish accent too.

[MrReefer2]

WHY ?!

[BLmarlo]

Nice Gan

[nishantkalbhor]

@Bizorke Porting the Android apps will much simpler i guess, any kid could simply make apps using Processing or AppInventor.. instead of goin for SDK wich difficult for them...i guess.... If these Android apps work well then.... sky is the limit for Playbook..... I am also trying to get Quake III working on Playbook.... but having some problems with signing the.bar file.... I hope to upload that soon... my method is diffirent than the one used by Playbook Developers....

[Bizorke]

@nishantkalbhor Why do you think it's an android app? It's far more likely to be a native (non-sandboxed) app using the qnx sdk.

[nishantkalbhor]

@Bizorke Yes i know its based on the Arduino Android Adk/ADB technique... it currently supports Linux,Windows and Mac.... the app above is probably an android app that is running. I have been doing Arduino ADK projects and its fun. Lot of guys have installed apps on Playbook using adb tool for android and this one is similar USB serial communication.

[iTek42]

You want usto have some fin with our Playbook? How about you expand the app. store! QNX is by far the best tablet OS out there but your lack of fun (Netflix) and useful (native email client) makes me want to return mine for an iPad or Android tablet. Update the App. store and you guys will dominate.

[Bizorke]

@nishantkalbhor The hardware is just a simple USB serial com port connection that virtually any OS can support (the OS is not controlling the arduino, the developer has an app on there that's running independently, communicating via serial). This is actually a really good demo of just how much power developers have on the native platform. Very cool.

[nishantkalbhor]

Nothing new its similar to any Linux based hardware used to control Arduino.

The best thing would be done is running Ubuntu using Linux Installer(AndroidApp) on the Playbook using os2 or the sys.android.bar file and then executing whatever u want .... cheers....

[dsouzaec]

@cymagic Looks like USB is used for power and communication. Freeze the clip on 0:50.