back to geekiness for a moment…
I bought the FinePix W1 camera from a shop in Kumamoto the other day, after seeing and playing with the demo unit it was hard not to buy it..
back to geekiness for a moment…
I bought the FinePix W1 camera from a shop in Kumamoto the other day, after seeing and playing with the demo unit it was hard not to buy it..
I finally got round to installing Subversion on my webserver, seems to be rather cool 
I bought a CraftRobo cutter thing as well, its pretty damned cool. The plan is to knock up custom business cards/bday cards/papercraft stuff. I’m amazed how fine it can cut things actually, I started cutting a gear-wheel pattern (which was meshed with other gears) and it didnt screw it up at all.
I’ve got some cunning plans for it coming up
The facebook tracker is now logging wlan macs and gps coords from my phone, I’m sorting out the wlan -> gps coord mapping page at the moment, using google maps. Its pretty cool, seems to be fairly simple to use
The Bluetooth GPS thingy arrived on friday so I started work on the phone-side of the facebook gps tracker app.
Its written in Python using PyS60, oddly no extra modules are needed yet. The app connects to the gps device and attempts to read the data off. If it finds some position information it then pushes it to a PHP app on my webserver, this in turn grabs the map, generates the FBML then stuffs it onto facebook. All in all its working a treat.
1 problem though, the stupid designers of the gps device have put an “auto power off” feature on, if the device doesnt detect a gps signal or BT connection it pwoers off. Thats rather annoying as I dont want my phone keeping a BT connection alive all day (it’ll kill the battery!.I’m hoping that simply tapping the power button will keep it alive, if thats the case then I’ll hack an optoisolator and 555 timer circuit to keep pushing it 
I may even publish the map location to this blog in a sidebar of sorts.
As part of the nabaztag stuff I’ve been looking at a general framework for this sort of thing, something with different ‘plugins’ to output to different devices. As a test I’ve started writing Facebook apps
So far I’ve managed to write a desktop app that updates my status from a python script.
Another idea I’m working on is automatic facebook updates, for example I can leave bluetooth switched on my phone and have my server pick up when I’m in range. If I am (and wasnt) then set my facebook status to “has just arrived at home”, or even if it detects that I’m on the wordpress admin page have it set my status to “blogging”. I’ve started work on a prioritising system as well, so that some updates dont override others.
Further on from this I’d love to have my GPS coords (taken from the phone) uploaded to facebook every half hour or so. Theres no point at all other than pure geekiness hey, thats what its all about!
So i’ve finally got round to installing the nabaztag stuff on my server just to find that I forgot to compile in cURL support.
Hrmph.
Off I go to recompile it *again*.
On the plus side the software actually works now, the scheduling kicks off on time and it generates the correct responses, it just cant send them to the bunny until cURL is fixed.