I'm very interested in Bluetooth. The only Bluetooth app I really heard about has been at a Medical university in the states that used Palm's with Bluetooth for the students and the prof to conduct votes in class. "Did everyone understand that?" (lots of tapping on Palm pilots).. "Ok, I'll review that again.."
Haha Poker, forget that go Euchre! I wonder if you can track the latency transmissions between devices and make a ping for Bluetooth palms. Then you can play hide-and-go-seek in a large public place (or a forest :)). Sonar... hmm I wonder.. Wolfgang-Aaron Bochar snip--- A Successful Experiment with Wireless Teaching Posted by: Ed on Saturday, September 14, 2002 12:04:36 PM The Stanford University School of Medicine has finished a successful trial of using wireless handhelds to improve the teaching process. Students equipped with Palm m125 handhelds could wirelessly communicate with their professor via Palm Bluetooth SD cards connecting to PicoBlue Internet Access Points. Instead of asking for a show of hands, the instructor electronically polled the class. This is faster and it provides more accurate feedback because students don't have to admit to their classmates that they don't understand something. Each time an instructor started a poll, students used their Bluetooth-enabled handhelds to connect wirelessly via PicoBlue access points in the classroom to a web-based polling server developed by medical students and the Stanford University School of Medicine's IT department. Responses were logged almost instantaneously and tallied by the server. Notified when each student had responded, the instructor then projected the results for the entire class to see. "Based on the success of this trial, we envision deploying this solution more broadly across the entire medical school, particularly as use of Bluetooth-enabled Palm handhelds increase," said Todd Grappone, assistant director of development, wireless and mobile computing at the Stanford University School of Medicine. "Currently, the majority of Stanford medical students have a Palm handheld. It's just a matter of time before they all have this type of capability." Grappone added that the trial also allowed students to familiarize themselves with the same networking and computing technologies now becoming prevalent in hospitals. This is just a small part of the Stanford Palm Project, which uses Palm handhelds in numerous ways to prepare students to practice medicine in the era of mobile computing. http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=4115 --snip -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russell K Bulmer Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 11:38 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: ASCII lookup >You mean Bluetooth type stuff? I think that's _kinda_ >what my prof has in mind - he just bought a Kyocera >QCP6035, so maybe he's not looking at Bluetoothy stuff >quite as much as he is for mobile devices - I wonder >if he'd consider doing SmartPhone programming as a >course topic... then I could finally get a cell >phone... :-) > I assume the previous poster meant the general wireless capabilities of Palms - ie pointing them at a (cell) phone and getting internet access, then writing some form of client / server app. However... I think Bluetooth might be more practical for classroom use. Doing access over a phone via IR is a pain, plus you'd need to reimburse people for the cost of the phone call. Oh... and of course as you're in the states... you'd actually have to supply most people with a phone! :-P With BT you could do some fun stuff with inter-device comms, without using the internet. A very simply thing would be to do a naughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) game. 2 devices each with the same app on them would play against each other using BT. If you want something more advanced or for a group project you could just choose a more complicated game. Top Trumps as a multi-player game. Monopoly. Pong. Texas Hold'Em Poker. Especially the poker one. I want a BT poker game! (oh... and it's 4.30pm here in the UK... so I'm half an hour away from heading down the pub to start the weekend!) -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
