Amarino helps you interface Android to anything

Even though US carriers have crippled the Andriod implementation in handsets offered here a number of “Frankenphones” have evolved in the hands of talented hackers.  Now there’s a tool kit that helps  non programmers to interface Andriod to the outside world. You can marry Andriod to the Arduino microcontroller  with Amarino!

Normally smartphone events are tightly coupled to your phone device itself. When your cell phone is ringing, your phone speaker plays a ringtone. When you get a new text message, your phone displays it on its screen. Wouldn’t it be thrilling to make thoses phone events visible somewhere else, on your wearable, in your living room, on your robot, in your office or where ever you want it to occur? Or would you like to use your smartphone sensors, like the accelerometer, light sensor, compass or your touchscreen to control other devices? ‘android meets arduino’ is a toolkit, basically consisting of an Android application and an Arduino library which will help you to interface with your phone in a new dimension. You can build your own interfaces almost without any programming experience. (more info and free download)