https://github.com/temporal/kindlehacks

Some hacking that involves Kindle.
https://github.com/temporal/kindlehacks

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Some hacking that involves Kindle.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/temporal/kindlehacks
• Owner: TeMPOraL
• Created: 2011-04-19T22:21:33.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-04-25T01:13:40.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-19T14:55:08.987Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: common-lisp, kindle-devices
• Language: Common Lisp
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• Size: 117 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.org

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#+title: Kindle Hacks

* What is this?

  A general repository for my Kindle hacking ideas.

* Sub-projects

** *presentation* - Remote controlling a presentation via Kindle

The goal is to make a remote controller from Kindle. Because it seems

there's no easy way to make Kindle talk wirelessly to a computer

directly, this hack will require Internet access for both Kindle and

target computer.

The idea of converting Kindle to a presentation remote may seem weird,

as there are many better alternatives for controllers - cellphones,

smartphones, dedicated presentation remotes, etc. Well, I don't have a

smartphone, nor a dedicated controller; Bluetooth in the phone is a

kludge, and I just got a Kindle and I want to play around with it ;).

As an added value, I want to have Kindle display notes for

presentation, which beats phones and dedicated controllers.

The project is composed of two main parts - a webapp for receiving

user input and displaying notes, and an actuator for switching slides

and fetching the notes. The components are separate and one should be

able to deploy them on separate machines or on a single computer.

*** Webapp

The idea is to create a web app that will interface Kindle with target

computer, so that one could use Kindles build-in browser to control

the presentation.

The client side of the application will capture keys that user presses

and transfer them to web server, which will delegate proper actions to

the second part of this project - the remote Actuator. It will also

receive new batches of notes to dynamically display on the page.

*** Actuator

This component will be responsible for issuing commands to

presentation software, for example by faking keyboard input.

I want it to work not only with PowerPoint, but also with [[http://prezi.com][Prezi]].

Moreover, this part will also send back presentation notes on request.

I think it is good to keep presentation and presentation notes

together.

* 

[[http://www.sa-matra.net/quotes/orz/][This is the everything story. Now you know.]]