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

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on Friday December 21, 2012 @10:52AM

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."

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

Submitted by beefsack on Saturday July 07, 2012 @10:28AM

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.

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

Submitted by beefsack on Thursday June 14, 2012 @09:11AM

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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