Geeky. But I will no doubt need it for an in-world demo. So it's come to this.
Arduino Sketchup Model | Bussoli
I made some progress a year ago but this could be the refresher I need. If I were a coder...
iPhone Dev 101: Creating Xcode projects, brief Xcode UI overview
Thanks to Ben Combee who is contributing to the Arduino community by making it easier to use the "official" ethernet shield.
The Inspiration of Xalala - Part 1 | International Rivers
Rumor Mill: Is IKEA Entering the Eco-Friendly Car Market? | Sustainability | Fast Company
I saw their website last fall, but could not tell what the product was. This review shows that it requires a particular wireless utility meter, and provides its own smart-grid type of service.
Technology Review: Dumb Meters Get Smarter
A large part of El Zotz biosphere next door has been cleared.
Prensa Libre - Edición electrónica - Nacional - Invasores se aproximan al Parque Nacional Tikal
I was reminded of this great set of tutorials, combining Arduino with Processing.
arduino meets processing - PUSHBUTTON
More from my "if I were a coder" series. Memo makes it as easy as he can - no objective C programming.
Simple openFrameworks application on iPhone Sample 1 | memo.tv
Starting to get interesting here.
Real time application sharing for virtual meetings | CyberTech News
Like I said...
Built-in Obsolescence | Serial Consign
In case some iPhone dev should wander by here. We're not worthy...
Developing for iPhone using openFrameworks and ofxiPhone | memo.tv
Jeff Crouse » Archive » openFrameworks on iPhone
exploration » Blog Archive » openFrameworks iPhone libs
And the new v0.06 release, with iPhone support
Thanks to David McConville and Elumenati for a good tutorial on converting cylindrical equidistant to fulldome projection. Passing this along to our new After Effects expert.
fulldome_demo2.mov (video/quicktime Object)
Insights into the creation of two very different iPhone applications. Geeky but good reads on how they think. And coders are only human.
Official Google Mac Blog: Using Google APIs in an iPhone App
Mashup of Google Earth and Power grid information, being done at Oak Ridge National Labs.
Global Dashboard » Climate and resource scarcity Influence and networks » Google Grids
How renewables could cover energy needs and save costs at the same time.
Energy Blue Print team: homepage
Strange but evocative 3D browser. Try it. Java download for all platforms.
If I were a coder...
REAS.com / Blog » Blog Archive » Twitch, Chrome Experiments Launch
From my Spanish cybernaut counterparts. We'll disappear down the rabbithole together. Conjunto amigos!
HispaGrid - Ver Tema - Creacion de terrenos usando imagenes de satelite
UPDATE: They based it on this:
Darb Dabney's OpenSim Blog - Case Study: USGS terrain in OpenSim, a GIS approach
And I didn't even have to pledge. Highly recommended - reread "The Difference Engine" by Sterling and Gibson.
Ada Lovelace Day - Bringing women in technology to the fore
Watching for these start-ups as they come online. Could beat my DIY approach.
Sensor 'swarm' converges on energy use in buildings | Green Tech - CNET News
This goes in my Underworld category, bigtime. Matt Taibbi nails it.
The Big Takeover : Rolling Stone
The future. Live it or live with it.
More like Philip K. Dick every day.
Sensor networks and virtual worlds « No there there
No, I can't do this without help from a skilled hacker and yes, there is a method to my madness.
UPDATE: I underestimated my own persistence and the work that the realXtend developers have put into making it easy to install the server. See comments on the first link above. Give it a try - it's not too hard.
MORE UPDATE: This is actually an exercise in getting Sketchup into RealXtend. For Opensim, I found the Windows install very simple, the Mac install of latest builds next to unknown. In any case I will start leaving relevant links here:
The far out begins to be mainstream - GE has a demo also.
Official Google SketchUp Blog: Cool technologies to help visualize your models
...was last Saturday, but the Lower Eastside Girls Club and Club Balam were way ahead of the pack, doing their action on the Usumacinta on February 16th. Video is on the way, here's a photo from that day, and the page at International Rivers.
2009: Mesoamerica | International Rivers
A play to push more HD video on the web and trigger upgrades in the router business.
Why Cisco's Flipping Into Consumer Video - Forbes.com
Like it says:
Posterous - The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by email.
In Penn Station. The brother of my daughter-in-law is a real-life New York hero!
A Boy Named Penn, Born at the Station - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
Recommended by the hacker cognoscenti. Good enough for me.
Hakko 936-12 - ESD-Safe Soldering Station, 60W with C1148 Medium Soldering Iron
It'll go the way of the gas lamp - Thanks Edison, it was fun while it lasted.
Kissing Edison's Light Bulb Goodbye - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
Ron Canter sent in this update on the emabattled Xalala dam on the Chixoy River in Guatemala. An excerpt:
Cancelled twice before, the proposed 82-meter-high Xalalá Dam proposed for Northern
Guatemala found no bidders on its third try in early November. A number of prominent
companies – including US firms AES International and Duke Energy, the Brazilian firm Odebrecht,
and others – purchased the project bidding rules, but none offered a proposal for the estimated $400 million project.
International Rivers - December update (pdf)
Conference is tomorrow. Only slightly out of the loop.
2009 UCLA Wireless SmartGrid Forum
UCLA Wireless Internet Smart Grid
Nice gadget. Now who has the kits for us hobbyists?
Grand Idea Studio » Archive » Persistence of Vision Watch
Still waiting for the US standard CurrentCost meter that all the UK guys are hacking, but this code and hardware setup looks useful.
curcostardethpac - Google Code
Why Ideals are the New Business Models - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org
Why I will wait until the building is built to figure out this part of the puzzle.
Cisco's expected server splash raises data center ruckus | Business Tech - CNET News
Looks good to me.
Electric Cars--How Much Does It Cost per Charge?: Scientific American
Raiders of the Lost Ark - transcript of the 1978 story conference. Will we ever get over it?
Mystery Man on Film: The Raiders Story Conference
Green news harvest: Solar panels for city balconies | Green Tech - CNET News
I may look more closely at this one when CurrentCost comes out with their US standard version.
Andy Stanford-Clark's home monitoring
The right version of Tom Raftery's etech presentation on the Smartgrid. Apparently the etech people posted the wrong one on their site.
I found this last summer and passed it on to a producer friend moving to FCP. It includes two introductory videos for TV (read Avid) editors moving to Final Cut. Best tip - I looked again today for this - is
x o delete x i delete
what the instructor calls top and tail editing, perfect for today's "throw everything on the timeline and trim it into shape" style of editing.
Apple - Seminars Online - News and Sports Editing - Infinite Possibilities with Final Cut Pro
Next on my list to learn about. Pachube has an app to hook into AMEE.
AMEE - The world's energy meter » FAQ
Can't help seeing this as the Usumacinta simulation I wanted to make a few years ago. No shipping there. But other things to note.
Naked Imagination · Visualizing live shipping data in OpenSim (Isle of Wight Ferries)
Can be done for half the price or less DIY. But there should be many options coming out over the next 2 years.
Sensors & Cameras 1-800-975-4743 USA
Visualizing Sensor With Arduino and Processing | uC Hobby
Cisco uses the Internet to turn cities green | Green Tech - CNET News
Brewster Kahle, archivist and idealist | The internet's librarian | The Economist
Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- and It Could be as Important as Google | Twine
Project to create global sensor network to monitor earth and climate.
:: Planetary Skin - Resources ::
The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (The Witter Bynner version), Terebess Asia Online (TAO)
Exhibit in September, NYC, featuring Usman Haque of Pachube.
Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City | Situated Technologies
I first ran across the word "sequestration" in 1997 when I did the Discovery News story on carbon capture. There may be ways to do it now beyond growing more trees.
Carbon capture and storage: absolute necessity or crazy scheme?: Scientific American Blog
Novel approaches to sequences of learning « John W Lewis
Nice CD wheels, paper driver.
Mr.Green (aka Bean) | Let's Make Robots!
Effectiveness of simple weatherizing.
Firepower of the Lowly Caulk Gun - WSJ.com
The Green Home - Keeping Household Electronics Out of the Landfill - NYTimes.com
With ITP's help as usual. We begin the new "Make Break and Burn" class with a step towards robotics - our first servos.
Physical Computing at ITP | Labs / Servo Motor Control with an Arduino
And a great link on that page, to the Flying Pig animations of mechanical motion.
Tiny, Linux, USB and GigE.
Marvell: SheevaPlug Development Kit
Blog of Jamais Cascio, one of the contributors to WorldChanging. Thoughtful and surprising. And a bit more hopeful than the lecture we heard tonight. Okay, we are screwed. Let's live and work on it.
A conference on "home hacking, automation and green technology community". Pachube is one of the participants, and there is a virtual home camp being set up in the OpenSim world, an open source version of Second Life. Since I want to display building monitoring data in an online display based on Sketchup and Google Earth, this sounds intriguing.
Home Camp (website)
homecamp / FrontPage (wiki)
I just re-read "The Difference Engine" by Gibson and Sterling, and I am amazed how little I remembered from the first time around. Today I ran across this gem of a site. Might try some etching of Altoids tins myself. The rest I have too little patience for.
The Steampunk Workshop | Technology and Romance - Sustainable Rebellion
Google LatLong: Explore more with User Photos in Street View
Very clear and well illustrated.
Living Architecture Spring 2009 Columbia: Tutorial 2: Pachube.com
Living Architecture Spring 2009 Columbia: Tutorial 3: Ethernet Shield and Twitter.com
(Tutorials are images - click on them to enlarge)
Solid state cooling or heating element. Can also generate electricity if heat is applied to it.
Peltier Junction Thermo Electric Heat Pump
Thermoelectric effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia