via Hackaday:
Two bike trainer projects; one connected to Google Street View, and the other capable of a number of different visualizations (including Google Earth and Second Life).
In their use of Google Street View and Google Earth, they demonstrate the collection of freely available location information out there. The 1:1 relationship between the bike “movement” and movement through a VR space is also interesting to explore.
Yahoo Pipes has a collection of Twitter pipes available, and could definitely be used to process real-time, geo-coded data from Twitter, Flickr, et al. to give a snapshot of a location.
New Horizons is an annual Australian Postgraduate conference held at Sydney Uni. Below are my notes on Paul Patton’s Keynote. Alternatively you can download the notes in PDF format..
I’ve recently compiled and deployed a modified GPS FireEagle location updater for my Blackberry Bold. The process was not as straightforward as I’d hoped for, and I provide the following to aid anyone else attempting the same.
The FireEagle J2ME page points to two resources to help you get started with FE on J2ME; the Fire Eagle J2ME Mobile Updater, and the required dependency J2ME OAuth JAR. Unfortunately, while the OAuth library is currently up-to-date and working with 1.0a, at the time of writing the Fire Eagle Mobile Updater is not compatible with this library; the “fetchNewAccessToken()” call now requires the user verification code as a parameter.
The following video and instructions are a walk through from downloading the required packages, to testing on a simulated device. It assumes that you have Git installed (although alternatively you can download the .ZIP files of these two packages), and Eclipse with the BlackBerry JDE Plug-in (I’m using JDE 4.6.0), both available for free. (The Sun Java ME Platform SDK 3.0 is an alternative IDE, though I had a problem with the parser when working with this code.)
Subscribe to all content
You are currently browsing the neonascent weblog archives for December, 2009.
| www.flickr.com |