bits4life

I recently bought a nabaztag and discovered a cool app for my G1. Nabaztag is a “toy” rabbit with some elektronics onboard. It connects to the network with wifi and can receive commands to blink leds, speak text and move his ears. You can make it read your emails, the weather, the time etc … With the wabbit app for the google G1 android phone you can send text to your rabbit or change the positions of the ears with your mobile. Big fun, nothing else

I have installed an EIB based home automation system in my home. EIB (European Instalation Bus) is an open standard, but I found it very hard to find good documentation and tools for it. If you plan playing with this system a good starting point is the Institute of Computer Aided Automation. For the moment I use the EIBD server to interface my KNX IP BAOS 770 EIB module with misterhouse. This works great for me. If you are interested in more EIB related info, let me know. Maybe I write a post on this blog about my setup.

One off the RSS feeds in my browser is from the site hackaday.com This is a very active blog with all kinds of electronic and software related hacks. For me it is a good inspiration source for my projects. It also keeps me updated about new technologies and other high tech news. You will find realy crazy stuff on this site as well as verry well written tutorials.

Warning! hackaday is very addictive and may become a daily routine !

www.barcodepedia.com is what I believe a very interesting project. It is an free to use database with the barcodes of all kind of products like books, compact discs, electronics, food, …  It is based on a community and everyone is free to add new products. For the moment there is no API to interface the database that is behind this website but there seems plans to make one available soon. I can think of a lot of cool applications that can use this database :  (more…)

If you like to bike like myself then you should check out  OpenCycleMap.org This project collects all the National cycle roads and paths in one big map. This is a side project of openstreetmap.org You can find more info on the openstreetmap wiki and the legend on the maintainers website. For G1 Android owners it is also good to know that these maps are also supported on the AndNav2 Android navigation system app. Now is the time to start planning your summer holliday bike trip and this are the tools to help you. Have fun.

If you have an high speed internet connection and like to watch a movie on your PC or other network enabled device you may be interested in the website www.thepiratecity.org They offer hundreds of real time movie streams  all for free.
Check it out.