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The Scoreboard project is now finished and working!
The idea of this project is pretty simple: control a ping-pong electronic scoreboard from an Android bluetooth-enabled device.
To do this, I used an ATtiny45 which main function is to display the current scores in a VGA monitor while reading from a bluetooth module UART interface waiting for “commands” that will tell it what to display. The Android device sends the commands via bluetooth, running an application specially designed for this project.
As usual, the whole project is open source, including schematics, AVR firmware and the Android application.
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POIMan for Sygic is an Android application that lets you keep your Sygic’s Point of Interests (POIs) up to date and manage them (add / remove) in an easy way.
This application will download the POI’s list from a definable URL (by default http://www.todo-poi.es/TodoPOI.xml) and let the user select and download the available POIs from that list. Since the POIs are in TomTom format (`*`.ov2), POIMan will convert them to the Sygic format (`*`.upi). Also the BMPs are downloaded and resized to a suitable size that Sygic displays properly.

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