So I decided to get a blue tooth adapter the other day. Turns out those usb to blue tooth boogers are now smaller than a dime now and the one I picked up(targus) works native with linux, which was just as exciting as the actual hardware lol… I was also surprised how easy it was to sync my old beat up razer cell phone to grab the pictures off of it.
<the fun begins!!!>
My mom works for a release program for students. They have been wanting a smart board for some time now. The only problem is that these things cost a heap of money(like $5k). The wii has been a piece of my life for some time now that the engineering department has one in the break room. I recalled a prof. talking about how they are so hackable and I recalled they incorporated ir leds for location of the wii. While googleing around i found a some neato utilities that harnessed this to make a white board for the cost of a wii-mote the bluetooth adapter and a led… check it out its pretty neato stuff!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7e
Now I’m not gready so I guess I can cut the public schools a deal and sell them to them for half of the 5k orso lol
Other interesting things to note about bluetooth is that it has a range of up to 30Km or roughly 18 miles!!!
