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Robotics

Submission + - Arduino and MK802 Robot, Controlled by Phone (youtube.com)

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beefsack
beefsack writes: "An engineer by the name of Andrej Skraba has combined an Arduino board and an MK802 mini PC running Ubuntu to create a robot which is controllable via it's own node.js server and a mobile phone. Seen by some as products competing in a similar space, Andrej shows how the two devices can make the most of their unique features to complement each other well working together."
Android

Submission + - Controlling Linux using an Android phone as mouse, keyboard, and gamepad (youtube.com)

Submitted by beefsack
beefsack writes: Miniand have demonstrated how to control Linux using a Samsung Galaxy S2. Using an MK802 with the ARM build of [Droidmote server](http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1292627) bundled into an [MK802 Lubuntu image with uinput enabled](https://www.miniand.com/forums/forums/2/topics/1), Miniand demonstrate using an Android phone as a keyboard, mouse, and gamepad over Wi-Fi to the device.
Ubuntu

Submission + - Ubuntu 12.04 ported to the Allwinner A10 MK802 ,ini PC (miniand.com)

Submitted by beefsack
beefsack writes: Thanks to the strong ARM support in the Ubuntu repositories, Ubuntu, along with Lubuntu and others have been ported to work on the new MK802 mini PC. Performance is very impressive, especially given that Mali GPU driver support in Linux is still lacking features such as hardware video decoding.

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