We have just been asked if this is the world’s biggest Android device ?

We think it might be – feedback and suggestions for bigger devices would interesting, please leave a message in the comments box.

Certainly wandering around CeBIT suggests that it is. Talking of which if anyone at CeBIT has a big Android sticker we could stick it one the box, Hall 12, Stand B77 if you want to drop one off.

Some facts about the machine – it weighs 350 kg, .8m x 1m x 2m high.

The world's largest Android™ device?

After a 3am finish the truck pulled up to take our gearomat to CeBIT.

The box is wrapped up in cardboard, covered with bubble wrap and moved down the hall to the loading bay on the other side of the building. Suddenly our corridor seems very empty without its steely presence.

The van reverses, drops the tail lift and we move onto the lift when a call of Stop! rings out. The van isn’t tall enough inside to fit the box. Two minutes with a craft knife later we squeeze into the truck – the top signage had already been removed so nothing was broken.

Of course we are running late, this is 10.30 we were meant to be loaded and away two hours ago. Both vans head north to Kassel, where they split, the small one to collect keys for the apartments we are staying in, again it is good to have friends you can call on at short notice like this.

Fabian has joined us for the week, so is getting the joys of driving the Astra van, whilst Fearghas updates the blog pictures.

The big van heads into the Messe to deliver the gearomat, last minute tuning and adjustments keep Thomas busy until 1am when he finally gets driven back to Hameln by Markus who has just finished sending the first batch of press announcements.

Tomorrow or rather later today it all starts again at 8am.

The sustained testing of the shows a problem after a couple of hours continuous running, so Sascha come back in for a final round of bug squishing, leaving the machine to run over night.

The morning starts well by getting the DNS finally working properly for email, even if someone was hauled out of bed to fix it!

Sascha and George have been working together for the last 48 hours non-stop and we have a complete working system that operates the box.

Today was a good day, we have a working control unit and the user interface is finished.

Again another busy day of ‘visitors just passing by’ in the corridor as news spreads to the next door building about the blue box in the corridor.

Thomas arrived very late ( or early ) in Hannover to be a house guest for 8 hours, during which time he needed food and beer, all laid at very short notice.

9am Thomas arrives at the manufacturer to collect the case and the mechanical internals. “I was taken around the research and manufacturing facilities in Hannover, and introduced to the engineers who actually build these machines.

We had a long discussion about our plans and their enthusiasm is almost as much as ours. Then I got an hour with the control engineer to learn how to make the mechanicals behave as want them to.

“That was the easy part of the day, next we had to install the box into my little Astra van, it only needed three people and a forklift truck to lift it in. We would have needed a miracle to get the back door shut, so I was going to get plenty of winter air on the way back to Dietzenbach.

“Of course the weather took the opportunity to join in, with continuous heavy rain all the way back home. This is definitely not a recommended road trip…

“Finally I got back to the office at 22:45, to be whisked away for food and beer, followed by a lift home since I didn’t want to drive ever again…”