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[OpenMoko] Projects round-up

alx — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:48:55 +0000

Thanks to Pablo Ruiz Múzquiz, there is actually an OpenMoko GroupSale occuring in Madrid, and 10 people will soon receive an OpenMoko FreeRunner for the joy of hacking it!

I’ve spend some time on the OpenMoko wiki, and here is a list of the wonderful stuff I’ve discovered:

OpenMoko projects inside Google Summer of Code 2008
Favorite project: Flexible Answer Machine. Get the 90’s style answer machine inside your pocket, listen to messages directly without going by your provider hosting, get answer message more customized by using sms to infor about when and where you’ll be available.
Other favorite project: Bluetooth Remote Controller, like it’ll be a must on all the remote computers we’ll carry in our pockets.
Asterisk on OpenMoko, it seems a bit dead, but it’ll surely bring some nicely well-done telephony platform to manage your incoming calls and sms.
http://projects.openmoko.org/ to fllow the new projects launched for OpenMoko

More to see when the phone arrive in hands.

[Freeduino] Now on Del.icio.us

alx — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:37:14 +0000

Freeduino.org is currently the best place to fetch articles and information about Arduino project. Tonight, I’ve made a simple script to move this Creative Commons index on Del.icio.us, hoping it would become a better place to fetch last Arduino information!

Update: download the parser.rb script

[Fabbing] Link hunting

alx — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:23:47 +0000

A selection of links was needed to prepare this Fab Lab creation week:

Fab Lab inventory

A full list inventory to get your Fab Lab ready for all kind of fabrications and experiments (using Internet Archives, direct link no more available)

Draft Craft Manifesto

A simple manifesto with the few rules craftmen follows when building a new toy

DHS Fab Lab

Simple tutorials for various possible production in Fab Labs

1$ microscope project

A really complete tutorial, with lots of optic knowledge to learn

Vendor list from Fab Central forum

Some vendor where to find necessary items for Fab Lab

Fabbing and Fab Lab tags on Del.icio.us

Great source for even more Fab Lab and fabbing related websites

Xmas: gifts for Web Developpers

alx — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:42:02 +0000

Adaptive Layout Technique: last article from A List Apart that describes a technique to adapt your layout on the client screen resolution. This would be commonly used in coming months, bye bye fixed layout for developper/contractor screen setup;
Rails Rubyisms Advent: a simple day-by-day tutorial to learn new small tips in Ruby;
Rails Advent Calendar: another advent calendar from RubyInside.com to ruby developpers, with a link to some interesting screencasts from the San Diego Ruby User Group.