This weekend, I was able to get Flash talking to the EiBotBoard of my Egg Bot via Tinkerproxy 2.0. Fun stuff.

The trickiest part was finding the right file within /dev to point Tinkerproxy at. The EiBotBoard shows up as /dev/cu.usbmodemNNN which is quite different from the way an Arduino board shows up.

With the proxy in place, I set up a Flash file to load images, transform them into halftone dot patterns and then plot them onto eggs. Plotting is done with 3 different commands, one to raise and lower the pen, one to turn the egg (xaxis) and the last to move the pen (yaxis). 

After the flood of tablets announced and demoed at CES this year, it is relief to see a compiled list of the top runners. Into Mobile's list of ten top tablets includes four operating systems: Android OS, iOS, webOS (HP/Palm), and QNX (Blackberry).

If you are building a mobile app or you just what to distribute content, compare your requirements to the capabilities of HTML before you decide on building a native application. Even if you want distribution within app stores, you can wrap a web app in a native wrapper with minimal effort.