You go, geeks!
Urban Studies - For Geeks, a Frat House and Lab, All in One - NYTimes.com
Two years to affordable LED lighting?
What Is The State Of Solid State LED Lighting?
More great documentation from NYU ITP. This is my holiday project.
Developing Assistive Technology » Processing Arduino/Accelerometer Serial Data
Libelium in Spain is defining this open sensor space and making a business out of it. Good overview here.
Wireless Sensor Networks Research Group - 802.15.4 vs ZigBee
CIW had a triumph just before they visited us this month - an agreement with Subway to increase the price paid for tomatoes by 1 cent a pound, thus raising income for workers from $10,000 a year to $17,000. This followed similar deals with MacDonald's, Taco Bell, and Burger King - all of them tough fights.
Look at Day 7 and 8 of their tour blog to see their visit to the Girls Club:
COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS - NE Tour
Also see Katrina Vanden Heuvel's column in the Nation on CIW's work.
In the Trenches and Fighting Slavery
From Stephen Houston.
What Will Not Happen in 2012 « Maya Decipherment
David Stuart's creation, available on a t-shirt of your choice.
Mayanists for Obama : Cafe Press
Some links to answer the eternal backup question.
Q&A About Time Machine, Time Capsule, and Drobo From "News and Views from the Data Robotics Team"
Small design that includes Arduino, XBee socket, Li-Ion battery jack and USB charger for it. I'm jumping ahead in my understanding but had to try this.
SparkFun Electronics - Funnel IO
funnel.cc | Hardware / FIO (Funnel I/O)
Xbee Adapter - wireless Arduino programming
Arduino Forum - Yet another small size Arduino clone with XBee
Arduino Forum - Simple Xbee passthrough with SoftSerial
Yep.
Google's Best Energy Bet: Organizing Energy Usage« Earth2Tech
For fulldome production. Blender is a free open source 3D graphics program, and the one I have spent the most time on.
Ott Planetarium - ProductionShare
Photo textures on previously gray buildings. Above, First Street in the foreground. (Click for larger image)
I'm reposting this as I get closer to building it. I have the current metering chip and may tackle it soon.
jleblanc :: energy - Power Monitoring
Update: Jeff's example code is written in Python. I'll need to look at this, at least:
Introduction to Open Source Scripting on Mac OS X
Thanks Rob! I needed this a couple of weeks ago, when I struggled with the number 1 item on the list, then discovered I needed a Windows-only utility to upgrade the firmware.
Common XBee Mistakes at Rob Faludi
edge_of_the_emerald_city [kmlwiki.net]
An open wiki where anyone can easily post a Google Earth window and description.
Made by using DokuWiki with this plugin as described in this Ogle Earth post.
EPA Uses Google Earth-based Interactive Database to Spot Energy Opportunities : Sustainablog
From the Xbee hive at ITP, of course.
MAKE: Blog: ITP show: Epimetheus, trees will tell you when they're on fire
This is two years old - I'll have to see if it has been updated:
This group sponsors high school scholars:
CENS: Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
And here's one of their associated projects, using Google Earth and multiple sensors, webcams, and overlays.
James Reserve - Data Management Systems
Then there's this page of hundreds of maritime maps using Google Maps, and Google Earth:
Google Ocean : marine data for Google Maps / Google Earth
Examples of using Sketchup in the new Google Earth browser feature.
sketchup package:http://earth-api-samples\.googlecode\.com - Google Code Search
Examples and demos of a variety of browser displays using the API (which is not really new - it's just finally available for OS X):
earth-api-samples - Google Code
Google Earth API Examples - Google Earth API - Google Code
Google Earth Plugin - Interactive Samples
And the most basic example, a variation on the classic Hello World:
Hello From the Lower Eastside!
A screengrab from Google Earth and a link to the 3D Warehouse model:
Lower Eastside Girls Club - Volumetric Model by DaveP - Google 3D Warehouse
And a webpage with embedded Google Earth player and Girls Club model (updated 12/20/2008):
Lower Eastside Girls Club Center for Community
Good resource for students of Processing, both enrolled and self-motivated.
We'll want sunlight controlled dimmers in the building if we want NYSERDA incentives for that energy saving addition. How would we do it off-the-shelf? How DIY?
Sensor Workshop at ITP | Reports / TAOSTSL 13 S
Arduino Forum - Programmable Thermostat, Light Dimmer System
Andrew Kilpatrick » Interfacing: AC Line
Elaine Schele posted a small profile and tribute to Justin Kerr, with some good links and a photo of Justin with his rollout camera.
Austin Maya Meeting Hix Witz Volunteers: Aj tz'ib' Justin Kerr
Still not sure I have a handle on the values on the y axis. I'll keep playing. Update: better now. Gnight.
Another update: adding the second graph. But ranges are screwy again.
12/18 Update: switched to new feed after mystery freeze up.
pachube.community | connecting environments, patching the planet
Calderon promises to seal the border with Guatemala.
Intentan cárteles despojar a finqueros guatemaltecos vecinos de Chiapas - La Jornada
DIGIKEY - 366 HEAD & 300 VISE - 396
So my hair is thinning the same way my Dad's did. I'm spending a lot of time tinkering with electronics. I remember how tall his workbench used to seem, the mysterious tools and smells when he worked on his radios. I never knew a lot about what he did at work - he had a security clearance, it was Cold War R&D on the fringes of '50s and '60s Washington D.C. - but I knew it had something to do with the space program. Yesterday I read in Airstream Magazine (I bought a '58 Overlander 2 years ago, to turn into a recording studio in the new Girls Club) that Melpar, my Dad's employer, had built the Airstream-based quarantine units that the astronauts had to stay in when they came back from the moon. Couldn't let alien moon-bugs destroy the Earth.
When he died in '92 he left his workshop as messy as ever. But while he was alive it had an animating intelligence. Afterwards it was mostly junk. But I claimed a circuit-board vise and kept it for the next fifteen or so years. It got lost in the shuffle, though, and I miss it. I'll have to order one just like it. I need it now.
These guys are serious. Public libraries of printed circuit board designs, and all the information to use them and design your own. Thanks Sparkfun!
SFE Footprint Library Eagle - Open Circuits
SparkFun Electronics - Eagle Tutorial
Set UP eagle on mac os x - Fritzing
Finally.
Google Geo Developers Blog: Google Earth... in your browser... on your Mac!
Energy guru Lovins to carmakers: Time for big bets | Green Tech - CNET News
The third part of the Arduino-Processing constellation. This is open source electronic design automation.
So, hardware/software/fabware.
Not quite Rudy Rucker's Software-Wetware-Freeware-Realware but it is a brave new world.
In response to the Enerjar, Cornell students came up with this safer design for a power metering and computer controlled remote switch. This is very close to what I have been looking for. Nice work.
PowerBox: The Safe AC Power Meter
As friend Chris says, "we'll see".
Actually it is impressive to see Reforma closed to traffic and filled with bikes on Sundays.
Mexico's Al Gore To Make Smog Capital The Greenest City In The Americas
More information (with illustrations and diagrams) of the new technology which generates energy from vortex induced vibrations around tubes mounted on the river or ocean floor. Big advantages - safer for marine life, works in low speed currents.
Inhabitat » VIVACE: Vortex Hydro-Energy Mimics Schools of Fish
Official Google Mac Blog: Google Calendar now supports Apple iCal
And a free utility to make it even easier:
Calaboration 1.0.1 | Mac Gems | Macworld
First test graphs. The top two show a snapshot as of this post, using two sliders on an Arduino, as I tested, slept, tested again today including a flatline when I tried a software combination that did not work.
Update: I have reassigned the input sensors, from the sliders (which I was changing myself) to the light and temperature sensors on the shield. I may need to abandon this first feed at some point and start a new one to get a useful range on these new sensors.
At the link below you can see the updated sensor graphs on the Pachube (patchbay) website.
UPDATE: I deleted this feed and created a new one, to use update software on the site. See this post.
pachube :: connecting environments, patching the planet - C4C test feed
Free Web Plan Being Pushed by FCC Head - WSJ.com