What is Thunderbolt?

Powerful technology from a powerful collaboration.

Thunderbolt began at Intel Labs with a simple concept: create an incredibly fast input/output technology that just about anything can plug into. After close technical collaboration between Intel and Apple, Thunderbolt emerged from the lab to make its appearance in the new MacBook Pro and the new iMac.

Intel co-invented USB and PCI Express, which have become widely adopted technologies for data transfer. Apple invented FireWire and was instrumental in popularizing USB. Their collective 

experience has made Thunderbolt the most powerful, most flexible I/O technology ever in a personal computer. 

One small port. One giant leap in possibilities.

Both MacBook Pro and iMac now give you access to a world of high-speed peripherals and high-resolution displays with one compact port. That’s because Thunderbolt is based on two fundamental technologies: PCI Express and DisplayPort.

PCI Express is the technology that links all the high-performance components in a Mac. And it’s built into Thunderbolt. Which means you can connect external devices like RAID arrays and video capture solutions directly to MacBook Pro or iMac — and get PCI Express performance. That’s a first for any computer. Thunderbolt also provides 10 watts of power to peripherals, so you can tackle workstation-class projects on the go with MacBook Pro or from your home office with iMac. With PCI Express technology, you can use existing USB and FireWire peripherals — even connect to Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel networks — using simple adapters.

And because Thunderbolt is based on DisplayPort technology, the video standard for high-resolution displays, any Mini DisplayPort display plugs right into the Thunderbolt port. To connect a DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, or VGA                   display, just use an existing adapter.

Performance and expansion made ultrafast and ultrasmart.

Thunderbolt I/O technology gives you two channels on the same connector with 10 Gbps of throughput in both directions. That makes Thunderbolt ultrafast and ultraflexible. You can move data to and from peripherals up to 20 times faster than with USB 2.0 and up to 12 times faster than with FireWire 800. You also have more than enough bandwidth to daisy-chain multiple high-speed devices without using a hub or switch. For example, you can connect several high-performance external disks, a video capture device, and even a Mini DisplayPort display to a single Thunderbolt chain while maintaining maximum throughput.

High-Speed I/O Performance

US

480 Mbps

FireWire
800

800 Mbps

Express
Card

2.5 Gbps

USB 3.0

5 Gbps

Thunderbolt

Ch. 110 Gbps

Ch. 210 Gbps 

No project is too massive.

Now you can create a professional video setup for your 

MacBook Pro or iMac, just as you would for your Mac Pro.

 If you’re a video editor, imagine connecting high-performance storage, 

a high-resolution display, and high-bit-rate video capture

 devices to handle all the post-production for a feature film — right

 on your MacBook Pro or iMac. Thunderbolt I/O technology allows you 

to daisy-chain up to six new peripherals — such as the Promise Pegasus RAID 

or LaCie Little Big Disk¹ — plus anApple LED Cinema Display.

And that’s just the beginning. With Thunderbolt technology, 

peripheral manufacturers finally have what they need to take

 high-performance devices from workstations and top-of-the-line

 desktops to just about any computer.

Device control through Bluetooth from Symbian OS Mobile Phones

Use your Symbian OS mobiles to control devices through Bluetooth.
The serial to Bluetooth converter is used in this project. The Microcontroller At89C2051 is used to receive the data from the mobile through bluetooth.
Before using the bluesmirf, change the baud rate to 19200, because the default baud rate is 115200.
Most of the Nokia Smart phones can be used in this project

                                 



For Symbian II edition phones Software Download

Attachment: Symbian_II_Edition.zip ( 513Kbytes )

Symbian OS II Edition Nokia Phone models:
Nokia 6600, 3230, 6260, 6620, 6670, 7610

For Symbian II FP2 edition phones Software Download

Attachment: Symbian_IIFP2_Edition.zip ( 553Kbytes )

Symbian OS II FP2 Edition Nokia Phone models:
Nokia 6630, 6680/6681

For Symbian II FP3edition phones Software Download

Attachment: Symbian_IIFP3_Edition.zip ( 554Kbytes )

Symbian OS II FP3 Edition Nokia Phone models:
Nokia N70, N72, N90

For Symbian III edition phones Software Download

Attachment: Symbian_III_Edition.zip

Symbian OS III Edition Nokia Phone models:
Nokia 3250, Nokia 5500 Sport, Nokia E50, Nokia E60, Nokia E61, Nokia E61i, Nokia E62, Nokia E65, Nokia E70, Nokia N71, Nokia N73, Nokia N75, Nokia N77, Nokia N80, Nokia N91/N91 8GB, Nokia N92, Nokia N93, Nokia N93i, Nokia 5700, Nokia 6110 Navigator, Nokia 6120, Nokia 6121, Nokia 6290, Nokia E51, Nokia E66, Nokia E71, Nokia E90, Nokia N76, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia N82, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N82, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N78, Nokia N96

CIRCUIT IMAGES

Download the Source code from here:
Download the PCB from here:

If you need to control devices from your PC through Bluetooth then install the attached application on your PC, and control through your USB Bluetooth dongle.

How computers can cure cultural diabetes

The networked computer offers an antidote to the junk culture of broadcasting. Why not choose the healthy option?

THINK of those fleeting moments when you look out of an aeroplane window and realise that, regardless of the indignities of commercial air travel, you are flying, higher than a bird, an Icarus safe from the sun. Now think of your laptop, thinner than a manila envelope, or your cellphone nestled in the palm of your hand. Take a moment or two to wonder at those marvels. You are the lucky inheritor of a dream come true.

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, pacifists, cranks, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier. Not only did they develop such a device but by the turn of the millennium they had also managed to embed it in a worldwide system accessed by billions of people every day.

The networked computer is an amazing device, the first media machine that serves as the mode of production (you can make stuff), means of distribution (you can upload stuff to the network), site of reception (you can download stuff and interact with it), and locus of praise and critique (you can talk about the stuff you have downloaded or uploaded). The computer is the 21st century's culture machine.

But for all the reasons there are to celebrate the computer, we must also tread with caution. This is because the networked computer has sparked a secret war between downloading and uploading - between passive consumption and active creation - whose outcome will shape our collective future in ways we can only begin to imagine. I call it a secret war for two reasons. First, most people do not realise that there are strong commercial agendas at work to keep them in passive consumption mode. Second, the majority of people who use networked computers to upload are not even aware of the significance of what they are doing.

All animals download, but only a few upload anything besides faeces and their own bodies. Beavers build dams, birds make nests and termites create mounds, yet for the most part, the animal kingdom moves through the world downloading. Humans are unique in their capacity to not only make tools but then turn around and use them to create superfluous material goods - paintings, sculpture and architecture - and superfluous experiences - music, literature, religion and philosophy. Of course, it is precisely these superfluous things that define human culture and ultimately what it is to be human. Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.

For all the possibilities of our new culture machines, most people are still stuck in download mode. Even after the advent of widespread social media, a pyramid of production remains, with a small number of people uploading material, a slightly larger group commenting on or modifying that content, and a huge percentage remaining content to just consume. One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.

Television is a one-way spigot gushing into our homes. The hardest task that television asks of anyone is to turn the power off after they have turned it on. The networked computer offers the first chance in 50 years to reverse the flow, to encourage thoughtful downloading and, even more importantly, meaningful uploading.

What counts as meaningful uploading? My definition revolves around the concept of "stickiness" - creations and experiences to which others adhere. Tweets about celebrity gaffes are not sticky but rather little Teflon balls of meaninglessness. In contrast, applications like tumblr.com, which allow users to combine pictures, words and other media in creative ways and then share them, have the potential to add stickiness by amusing, entertaining and enlightening others - and engendering more of the same. The explosion of apps for mobile phones and tablets means that even people with limited programming skills can now create sticky things.

The challenge the computer mounts to television thus bears little similarity to one format being replaced by another in the manner of record players being replaced by CD players. It is far more profound than that, because it can bring about a radical break from the culture of television and a shift from a consumption model to a production model.

This is a historic opportunity. Fifty years of television dominance has given birth to an unhealthy culture. Created like fizzy drinks and burgers by multinational conglomerates, the junk culture of broadcasting has turned us into intellectual diabetics. The cure is now in our collective grasp. It involves controlling and rationing our intake, or downloading, and increasing our levels of activity - uploading. Not to break it down too much, watching is ingesting is downloading and making is exercising is uploading.

Of course people will still download. Nobody uploads more than a tiny percentage of the culture they consume. But the goal must be to establish a balance between consumption and production. Using the networked computer as a download-only device, or even a download-mainly device, is a wasted opportunity of historic proportions.