Philips has presented in London the simplicity event, a show where interoperable by humans technologies have been presented to the public. Many of the finished designs did start from concept and are now manufactured and sold to the public. Altough it is not properly phisycal computing I think that is interesting to mention some of […]
So far I haven’t found a good resource from which retrieve data in real-time about power consumption in the world. People are more interested on football real-time statistics and other, to me, irrelevant data.
Something interested but probably not very original is stock market. Yahoo finance service has a query service that responds with a […]
Search after search I am getting closer to what I need to do to complete my assignment.
After I installed the Switchboard library in Processing, I found out that is possible to build a web browser that reads the code of a page. Altought this is possible with another library, proHTML I would stick with […]
I may use this statistics as the source for my project, as I have not found any reliable source for displaying the world welthfare or the world power consuption.
Here is the link: Internet Usage Statistics
Beside the differences in the syntax (Processing comes from java and Arduino from C) I did not understand yet one very important thing. The software you get from Arduino only helps you to program the input and outputs of the board and set parameters for them. Processing, instead, lets you interact with a moltitude of […]