Heres an easy installation guide link.

Android based phones have arguably the most apps. compared to Apple’s iPhone cellphones.

Your path may be clouded, uncertain your goal;
Move on, for the orbit is fixed for your soul.
And though it may lead into darkness of night,
The torch of the Builder shall give you new light.

You were, and you will be: know this while you are,
Your spirit has travelled both long and afar.
It came from the Source, to the Source it returns;
The spark that was lighted, eternally burns.

It slept in the jewel, it leaped in the wave,
It roamed in the forest, it rose in the grave,
It took on strange garbs for long eons of years,
And now in the soul of yourself it appears.

From body to body your spirit speeds on;
It seeks a new form when the old one is gone;
And the form that it finds is the fabric you wrought
On the loom of the mind, with the fibre of thought.

As dew is drawn upward, in rain to descend,
Your thoughts drift away and in destiny blend.
You cannot escape them; or petty, or great,
Or evil, or noble, they fashion your fate.

Somewhere on some planet, sometime and somehow,
Your life will reflect all the thoughts of your now.
The law is unerring; no blood can atone;
The structure you rear you must live it alone.

From cycle to cycle, through time and through space,
Your lives with your longings will ever keep pace.
And all that you ask for, and all you desire,
Must come at your bidding, as flames out of fire.

Once list to that voice and all tumult is done,
Your life is the life of the Infinite One’
In the hurrying race you are conscious of pause,
With love for the purpose and love for the cause.

You are your own devil, you are your own God,
You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod;
And no one can save you from error or sin,
Until you shall hark to the spirit within.

By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Click here to find out more about her.

I simply connected a USB cable from this board to my laptop – which runs windows 7 ultimate 64bit, and after a while – the drivers were successfully installed as shown below.

Using the Windows arduino software which you can download from here, l made these settings.

Go to the tools menu, select board, then select mega

Go to the tools menu, select serial, and then select COM6 – which has been assigned by Windows,a s shown in screenshot above.

First test. Loaded one of the sample sketches – program files by –> File/Examples/Digital/Blink

Modified this program since l had a red led connected between ground and digital pin #52.
int ledPin =  52;    // LED connected to digital pin 52

Will post updates here.

Extra pictures below. Kids love electronics -especially blinking leds.

Below pictures illustrate the size of the board.

Soccer fans world wide look forward to the 2014 next World Cup in Brazil.

What a World Cup. Brazil/France/Italy/Nigeria/England/Argentina etc. are out! I cant really predict who might win the cup.

Quater finalists: Germany, Spain, Uraguay and Netherlands.

The West African nation – Ghana defeats USA 2:1, as they advance further in this years World Cup. I’m impressed by the effort and how far this Ghanian team displayed this year. Disappointing lose for Africa as a whole, but penaly shots can go either way.

Spain defeats Portugal 1:0

Brazil defeats Chile 3:0

FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa from christopher guinness on Vimeo.

Heres a picture of my workspace setup during the final stage.

Below is a web 360×284 Flash 2Mb version of the original NTSC DV 10Mb opening title video. This was also encoded using Adobe Media Encoder.

mbah_media_start_title_1

Start_Video from Steve M on Vimeo.

End video

EndVideo1 from Steve M on Vimeo.

End Video 2 – Black Backgroud

EndTitleBlack from Steve M on Vimeo.

Below is one of the first 8 bit computers built. Current computers use 32/64bit architecture.

PDXRobo2004 from Steve M on Vimeo.

This game is available as an extra feature if you complete the Xbox version of Prince of Persia ‘sands of time”. Even though l own this game on the Xbox with all its 3D, top CG graphics – l miss the old classic.

Downloaded the DOS game – as an amazing little 339kb zip file from here.

Installed DOSBox from here

Below is a screen shot of DOSBox running on my laptop – Window 7 64bit

Below is Prince of Persia running on my Win7 PC !!

Next game to look for – the original DOS Lemmings!!!

By the way, the movie Prince of Persia: Sands of Time comes out in USA on May 28th.