Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Lately much of my work has been dealing with getting Flash to talk to the Arduino. There’s no real functionality to do this on its own, so you have to rely on some other components to host the conversation. There’s a whole host of methods you can use here:
Socket Connection - This requires a socket policy […]
Sunday, November 16, 2008
When I last left the data logger project off I was having quite a few issues with managing the size of the data in the allotted EEPROM space on board the Arduino. I built up an SDCard writer based on several specs I found in the messageboard and it worked flawlessly. I successfully captured RPM […]
So after posting the previous entry I went to sleep, only to find myself thinking about improving the visual aspect of the Conversation Cloud. I decided that adding physics would be the way to go, it would allow words to deflect off of each other, grow and gain mass, and constrain themselves to a container.
I’ve used […]
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Word of mouth is one of those impossible things people like to track. The best people seem to be able to do is to ask the question on a registration form, “Where did you hear about us?”
Is it possible to track word of mouth any better? This is the premise of my latest project, Conversation Clouds.
Imagine a […]
Friday, September 26, 2008
Just a quick note that I will be presenting at the Toronto Flex User Group on Thursday October 23rd, 2008 at the Oakham House on the Ryerson Campus, starting at 6:30pm.
Oakham House
Room: Oakham Lounge
55 Gould Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5B 1E9
I’ll be presenting: ActionScript or Flex Project? Development lessons learned building client projects.