Category Archives: Android

Particle Twister WebApp

Android, ATLAS, Board games, CERN, Coding, Computers and IT, Outreach, Physics, World Wide Web

It took some time, but now I finally managed to finish the next twist in Particle Twister.

My game idea that I designed and realised together with Katarina Anthony during my ‘more active’ time at the ATLAS Experiment at CERN finally got the first set of long-promised playing cards for additional fun and challenges in addition to the classic spinning wheel – all that in my brand new Progressive Web App (PWA).
You can use it online at and install it locally from https://particle-twister.mehlhase.info/.

Let me know if you have more ideas for cards, playing modes or features.
I still have a few more ideas, so stay tuned for updates …

Humble Bundle and more

Android, Computers and IT, Humble Bundle

It’s time for the sixth Humble Bundle. Well, actually it already been some time and it’s only ten days left, in case you care for nice games from independent studios were you can choose yourself what to to pay! I bought mine yesterday and already had a short session with one of the six games included.

And since I am writing about games, I’ll just go on and mention that I also got caught (for reasons I myself have not yet fully figured out) by The Simpson: Tapped Out [SaMeOrigin] and Wordfeud [SaMeWord] on my iPad recently. They work pretty well for the five minutes before going to bed or in the morning after the little one got his first dish of the day … at least the latter one also exists for Android (link).

Gingerbread

Android

Today I finally managed to get some gingerbread onto my Nexus mobile phone.

And yes we are talking Android versions here, not sweets!

Until now I haven’t received any update after 2.2.1 … so I finally decided to downgrade to an older but original Google firmware … and tada! … I immediately got the upgrade notice for gingerbread (being Android version 2.3.4)!

Went kinda nicely, just had to approve all previously installed applications and setup all my accounts once again.

But now I am happy on gingerbread ;)

Finally Froyo’ed

Android, Computers and IT

While touring through Vietnam I finally got my Android update (codename: Froyo), which was held back by Vodafone for whatever reason. Due to the limited network access (and spare time) I could only notice the increased speed and test the flash plugin yet. So there’s more to come…