bits4life » Link of the week http://blog.export.be Bits and bytes for your daily life. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:55:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Link of the week : wabbit http://blog.export.be/2009/04/link-of-the-week-wabbit/ http://blog.export.be/2009/04/link-of-the-week-wabbit/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:06:16 +0000 nixo http://blog.export.be/?p=246 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 :-)

]]> http://blog.export.be/2009/04/link-of-the-week-wabbit/feed/ 0 Link of the week : Institute of Computer Aided Automation http://blog.export.be/2009/04/link-of-the-week-institute-of-computer-aided-automation/ http://blog.export.be/2009/04/link-of-the-week-institute-of-computer-aided-automation/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:05:32 +0000 nixo http://blog.export.be/?p=227 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.

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

]]> http://blog.export.be/2009/03/link-of-the-week-hackadaycom/feed/ 0 Link of the week : barcodepedia.com http://blog.export.be/2009/03/link-of-the-week-barcodepediacom/ http://blog.export.be/2009/03/link-of-the-week-barcodepediacom/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:57:26 +0000 nixo http://blog.export.be/?p=133 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 :  Like a scanner based shopping list on your mobile phone. You just scan all your empty packages before you trow them away, and the app looks up the product and makes a shopping list on your phone  that you can use while shopping. There are already popular apps for the G1 android like shopsavy and iXmat scanner but none of the programs can make shopping lists for you.  Or a tool to index your book, movie or music collection. There exists already a linux gnome application for this called alexandria but it only works for books as far as I know.

Please feel free to add your ideas to the comment section and let me know if you plan to make a shopping list application. Id’love to have one !

]]> http://blog.export.be/2009/03/link-of-the-week-barcodepediacom/feed/ 1 Link of the week : OpenCycleMap.org http://blog.export.be/2009/03/link-of-the-week-opencyclemaporg/ http://blog.export.be/2009/03/link-of-the-week-opencyclemaporg/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:00:58 +0000 nixo http://blog.export.be/?p=86 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.

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Check it out.

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