- YIMBY — Swedish site for “Yes, In My Back Yard”. Provides an opportunity for the net to aggregate positive desires (“please put a bus stop on my street”, “we want wind power”) rather than simply aggregating complaints. (via cityofsound on Twitter)
- Getting People in the Door — a summary of some findings about people’s approaches to the physical layout of shopping space. People like to walk in a loop. They avoid “cul de sacs” that they can see are dead-ends, because they don’t want to get bored walking through the same merchandise twice. Apply these to your next office space.
- OpenBricks — embedded Linux framework that provides easy creation of custom distributions for industrial embedded devices. It features a complete embedded development kit for rapid deployment on x86, ARM, PowerPC and MIPS systems.
- Dilbert on Data — pay attention, data miners. (via Kevin Marks)
"embedded systems" entries
The secret is to bang the rocks together
Arduino is a building block for the world to come.
Every so often a piece of technology can become a lever that lets people move the world, just a little bit. The Arduino is one of those levers.
Complete real-time sleep feedback loop: Zeo device provides raw data
Zeo has recently added a new feature to their consumer-priced sleep
device that puts out sleep phase and brain wave data every 30 seconds.
Four short links: 19 October 2010
Positive Gov2, Psychology of Places, Open Source Embedded Devices, and Dilbert on Data
Health Care 2.0 Challenge announces winners: focus on access to Practice Fusion
Illustrating both the power of coordinated patient information and the
commercial benefits of offering an API for data access, Practice
Fusion and Critical Systems came together, along with many other
developers, around the Health Care 2.0 challenge.
Four short links: 21 October 2009
Battlefield Android, DIY Leukemia Hacking, Localisation, Bus Pirates
- Raytheon Sends Android to Battlefield — Google’s OS sees deployment. Using Android software tools, Raytheon ( RTN – news – people ) engineers built a basic application for military personnel that combines maps with a buddy list. […] Every part of RATS is tailored for use on a battlefield. A soldier could make an unmanned plane a “buddy,” for instance, and track its progress on a map using his phone. He could then access streaming video from the plane, giving him a bird’s eye view of the area. Soldiers could also use the buddy list to trace the locations of other members of their squad. (via Jim Stogdill)
- The Kanzius Machine (CBS News, video) — inventor lost the race against leukemia, but his DIY RF therapy device is being developed “for real”. (via Jim Stogdill)
- Lost in Translation — Will Shipley shows how to handle internationalisation and localisation. In this post I’m going to explain to you what internationalization and localization are, how Apple’s tools handle them by default, and the huge flaws in Apple’s approach. Then I’m going to provide you with the code and tools to do localization in a much, much easier way. Then you’re going to think, ‘That will never work, because of blah!’ and I’m going to respond, as if I can read your mind or I’ve already had this argument with a dozen developers, ‘It already did – I used these tools in Delicious Library and Delicious Library 2 and they’ve won three Apple Design Awards between them. (via migurski on Delicious)
- The Bus Pirate — interfaces to a heap of embedded hardware. The ‘Bus Pirate’ is a universal bus interface that talks to most chips from a PC serial terminal, eliminating a ton of early prototyping effort when working with new or unknown chips (via joshua on Delicious)
How the Zeo sleep device works around the limitations of home monitoring
Zeo
is part of a trend toward using technology to monitor our own bodies.
People have always been concerned about their health, of course, and
have tried different things to see what works (including rather absurd
superstitions). But now there are ways to bolster one’s curiosity with
real scientific data. The Zeo carries out sophisticated sleep monitoring by intensive
analysis of electronic signals.