{"id":1297,"date":"2015-06-20T04:05:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.pratt.edu\/open-source\/?p=621"},"modified":"2015-06-20T04:05:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:05:08","slug":"ai2-the-mit-app-inventor-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"AI2 &#8211; the MIT App Inventor for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week my bus broke down on the highway. I took the time to check out whats new on instructables and I found a stereo remote control app made with AI2. I immediately recognized the Snap style interface and thought it would be worth a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/android\/Screen%20Shot1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I tried a simple app to play a music stream from XRM Radio. it only took 10 minutes and seems to work fine. I left it playing for several hours yesterday while I was working with no problems. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/android\/Screen%20Shot2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I then tried Bluetooth serial&nbsp; and web api calls. Both seemed fairly easy. Trying to talk to an ESP 8266 proved a chore but it did work. I&#8217;ll post more about each project when I have time to package them up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next I took an Arduino with a Bluetooth module and a MAX6675 thermocouple amplifier and made a simple oven thermometer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was pleasantly surprised at how well the needle responded. Much nicer than the same app I made with the HTML5 canvas tag&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/android\/Screen%20Shot3.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll have to try a few more things this weekend. Maybe something for the car&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will&nbsp;post the thermometer app and Arduino source code when I pretty it up a little bit&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week my bus broke down on the highway. I took the time to check out whats new on instructables and I found a stereo remote control app made with AI2. I immediately recognized the Snap style interface and thought it would be worth a look. I tried a simple app to play a music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-arduino","category-technology","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}