The Embedded Beat: Freescale Blog Community

Five good reasons for wireless charging

Yves Legrand — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:14:45 +0000

By Yves Legrand – The global wireless charging market is projected to grow an astonishing 1500% in just 5 years, reaching $7.161 billion in 2017 from $456.86 million in 2011, according to a recent Wireless Charging Market research report. Even the U.S. Army wants to arm its troops with wireless charging everywhere. The research is out. The use cases exist. So, [...]

Thanks, but no thanks, A4WP!

Yves Legrand — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:15:38 +0000

By Yves Legrand – Within a week, both Samsung and LG announced that their new flagship Android-based smartphones, the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the LG Optimus LTE2, will include the wireless charging feature. Japanese operators and handset makers already adopted wireless charging for new smartphones used in Japan, and we can add Korea as the [...]

Augmented reality for healthcare devices

Sujata Neidig — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:05:58 +0000

By Sujata Neidig – A quick Google search on “augmented reality” brings back more than 17 million results. Wikipedia, which surfaces on the top of my results, describes it as a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or [...]

Hardware hacking the Freescale Mechatronics robot for wireless, part 2

bradstewartfsl — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:05:00 +0000

By Brad Stewart – Welcome to another installment of Hacking the Hardware. In this blog, I’ll continue from where I left off the last time when I constructed (or hacked together) an RF board to interface with the Freescale Mechatronics Robot (FMR). But first, some clarification is in order. Many of you have asked about not [...]

10 best Eclipse shortcuts

Erich Styger — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:17:36 +0000

By Erich Styger – Yes, the Eclipse IDE is a very visual and GUI-oriented framework. But this does not mean that everything is mouse oriented. While hammering in code, my hands are on the keyboard. Since I do as much as possible with the keyboard, I use any and all keyboard shortcuts available. The good news is [...]