FreeVibes
Finally the summer-holiday arrived, now its time to do some fun coding.
I bought myself a new mobile, a Nokia 6300, it’s got all the bells and whistles. Hmm well at least those I could afford. I choose this mobile because it has : Java, mp3 -player, bluetooth and memorycard.
I must admit that i might be a bit of a nerd, so I just had to code something for it. And after “hello world” I found a small and some would say useless application to code.
FreeVibes
I must say I got inspired by vibelet and the article in wired ( Hold the Phone, It’s a Sex Toy ). As the title suggest, its well vibrating. I think that vibelet – though i haven’t seen their program, must be making quite an profit. Because getting a java-enabled phone to vibrate constantly, is quite easy.
So now its Time for FreeVibes, a free software version.
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| That’s the fancy splash screen | And when its in vibrating mode, this little duck is there. And now why a rubberduck ? ( answers ) |
If you want to try it out, here are the jar and jad files. Just put them on your java-enabled mobile phone. I have just tested it on my telephone, It should work on any new mobile (with java) :
Installation
- Download the jar and jad file and place them on the phone in the same directory.
- Run the applet
- Have fun
Technicalities
Getting things to work with ubuntu feisty fawn.
I use SUNs java 6 and the wireless toolkit for the J2me.
Nokia has a nice area with information about coding for their phones (forum.nokia.com). But i didn’t have any success using their eclipse plugin and carbide.j seems to be a windows application. But eclipseME worked like a charm.
When setting up a device for EclipseME i had to make sure that it was MIDP 2.0 and CLDC 1.1. It wasn’t the default and the Nokia 6300 can’t handle MIDP 2.1.
They code and design is inspired by Nokias tutorial on making MIDP 2.0 games.
The images I used are from the openclipart collection, hacked together with GiMP and Inkscape, and I use obexftp to transfer the files to the phone.
I’d say that without the contented cat, you’re out of the race. Hurry and get Hello Kitty onto that one!
Yeah i know it really needs a kitten. Well hmm it was a quick hack and I couldn’t find any good looking cats in the openclipart-collection, so I went for the rubberduck. Which i actually find quite sweet.
But the beauty of free software is that the sourcecode is right there, and you are free to change the program. Or if you have a free and supercute picture of a kitten I’ll happily change it/