Firefly Cellphone in Ireland (from O2)

The new Firefly wireless phone is designed for kids. It is easy to use. Just press a couple of buttons to place a call. There is no need to remember numbers or dial. The special phone book makes this possible. It can hold up to 22 pre-programmed numbers. Use parental control options to limit incoming and outgoing call to the numbers in the phone book.

With just 5 (front) keys, it brings mobiles back to what they were originally designed to do - keep you connected. Firefly phones also keep it fun with lights, sounds, colours and animations.

Most importantly, it has PIN-protected features so you can control who the user receives calls from and, who they speak to.

Firefly Fireworks™ display flashes when making and receiving calls, during standby, and when charging.

The user also has:

12 ringtones

5 animations

7 LCD screen backlight colours

A huge range of accessories to choose from.

visit www.mrmubi.com for latest news.

http://www.o2online.ie/wps/wcm/connect/O2/Home/Shop/Phones/Firefly+for+kids/

Color Picker Pen

With color picker, all range of artists will be able to cerate a more sensorial and visual insight of their surrounding nature’s colors. This is amazing innovation by Jinsun Park. Color Picker is an great design of a concept pen that can scan colors from anything around and instantly use the color for drawing. After placing the pen in front of an object, the user just presses the scan button. The color is being detected by the color sensor and the RGB cartridge of the pen mixes the required inks to create the target color. This superb device will help people to observe the changing colors of nature. 

Tahoe-II Development Board

Finnaly i got Tahoe-II Development Board today, thanks to my boss
Dr. Ahmed Javad, who has alway encouraged me to
welcome the new technology. Next couple of weekends will be very
interesting working on it.

The Tahoe-II development platform is the ideal place to start when developing small, smart, connected devices. Featuring the .NET Micro Framework, you have the hardware and software tools to get your project done faster than ever before.   Through its fully integrated Visual Studio experience, the .NET Micro Framework brings a reliable and productive development environment to the world of embedded development. Complex applications can be developed and debugged faster by leveraging the powerful emulator and Visual Studio’s debugging capabilities. The familiar development environment also enables .NET  desktop programmers to work easily on embedded projects. The Tahoe- features a 3.5” touch-screen LCD, wired and wireless networking, USB function for interfacing to PCs, an accelerometer for innovative sensing and user interface applications. When you need to prototype a new device, the Tahoe-II has easy access to an array of expansion options; including serial ports, I2C, SPI and plenty of GPIO.    The Tahoe-II is built around the Meridian CPU, while features a Freescale i.MXS ARM9 processor, 4Mbytes of Flash, 8Mbytes of RAM. Moving from prototype to production is simple with the Meridian CPU. The Meridian CPU and the .NET Micro Framework are ideal for applications such as; industrial automation, home automation, healthcare, consumer devices, retail point-of-sale, PC peripherals, and automotive applications.

Specifiaction of Tahoe-II

• Meridian CPU (ARM920 @ 100MHz, 4Mbytes Flash, 8Mbytes SDRAM)
• 3.5” Landscape TFT LCD with touch-screen
• 9 user input buttons
• RS232 serial (DB9)
• USB Function
• Ethernet
• Accelerometer, with support for event notification including free-fall detection
• SD Card interface
• Temperature sensor and 2x ADC channels
• Interface for XBee wireless module (and additional ADC channels if fitted)
• PWM output
• Expansion connectors that expose GPIO, I2C, SPI and UART signals

The Tahoe-II supports version 3.0 of the .NET Micro Framework.  A Board Support Package (BSP) for use with the Porting Kit is under develpment for advanced users.

You can find out more detials about it on ...  http://devicesolutions.net/Products/TahoeII.aspx

Meccano Spykee Wi-Fi Spy Robot

I heard of this robot few month earlier and it really attracted me.

You all know about good feature of skype and if those are plugged into robot you can imagine how 

interesting it would be. Many people have Wi-Fi network at home now a days, and this robot is connected to Internet using your home or office Wi-Fi, you can remotely operate this robot via internet and talk to you your family, kids especially.

The Spykee Robot is spy robot kit that stands at approximately 1 foot tall. 

Once built, this remarkable robot acts as your walking, talking spy, a wireless VOIP phone, 

a webcam, a digital music player for your MP3s, and personal video surveillance thanks 

to Spyke's motion detector. The Spykee comes with 210 parts and is compatible

 with other 

Meccano sets for customization.

Characteristics:

• Spy robot - Spyke moves, watches, speaks and listens 

• VOIP phone - Use your Spyke as a wireless VOIP phone (compatible with Skype 3.0 PC technology) 

• Digital Music Player - listen to your own music over Wi-Fi with Spyke 

• Video Surveillance - When a movement is detected, Spyke activates an alarm on your computer or sends you a picture by email

• Other play functions include snapshot, sound and video recording, light, voice and sound effects and video filters 

• Wi-Fi card included 

• Motion sensors activate automatically when something happens 

• Returns to recharging station automatically when battery is low 

• Control on local Wi-Fi connection or remotely via internet 

Run the comprehensive software and you have a Wi-Fi enabled robot that can be controlled on a 

local connection or remotely from the Internet on a well-crafted and easy-to-navigate MMI or 

Machine Man Interface. This page can be opened using the CD ROM provided.

See how it looks like before you purchase.



For further details and to purchase this item you can go to http://www.robotshop.ca/meccano-spyke-wifi-robot-1.html.

Need Robot Parts

There are lot of online stores from where you can get the robot parts but i really like the www.robotshop.ca for this purpose, they support variouse payment methods including money order and wire transfer. you can also use paypal. Following are some caretories fromar robotshop.ca.

iRobot Roomba Parts Microcontrollers Sensors Motor Controllers Motors and Actuators Communication and Control Power Systems Software LCD and Display Interface Adapters and Converters Cables, Wires and Connectors Components

There are also lot of sotres in UK but if you live in Ireland, you can 

get some electronic items from Peats and Maplin, 

but they dont have a wide range of robotic items. so you many need to order online.