Spring 2006 Class
From MoDe
Hopefully, this is the start of a beautiful relationship. Note that the [official web site (http://people.csail.mit.edu/rudolph/Teaching/home883.html)] for the MIT 6.883 and the SMA 5508 course is not here. This is support for the course.
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Ipaq Info
- Ipaq Setup - Installation and setup of Familiar Linux on Ipaq
- Tips for Updating to Familiar v0.8.3 - Make the process a bit faster and less painful.
- Development for Familiar - Look here if you're interested in developing/compiling C/C++ applications for your Ipaq
- Login to NUSOPEN network on iPAQ - For NUS students who wish to connect wirelessly via the NUSOPEN wireless network.
- Bluetooth Problems - Find solutions to common bluetooth problems on the iPAQ here
- Bluetooth and Python - How to talk Bluetooth using Python on your Ipaq!
- Crickets - Setting up and using crickets
- Backpaq - How to use the various features of the backpaq
Python for (Nokia) Series 60 Phones
- PC Phone Sync (newer stuff; as of April 2006) Using windows PC for Symbian phone development. (linux and Mac OS as well)
- Bluetooth under Python Symbian (Our version without automatic name lookup)
- [Matt Croydon Postwiki (http://www.postneo.com/postwiki/moin.cgi/PythonForSeries60)] Python potpourri including projects ideas.
- Making a python standalone application py2sis
Problem Set Support
Problem Set 6 Speech Recognition
Problem Set 5 Location-based Reminders
Problem Set 4 GPS & Cell-tower tracking
Problem Set 3 Comments, updates, guidelines
Problem Set 2 Pointer to servers, comments, questions, etc.
Who is online now Stuff useful for problem set 1
NFS Setup Access files on your PC as if they were on your iPAQ.
Developing GTK on Windows Files and documentation.
Project Discussions
- Location Aware Games is a link for ideas, suggestions, comments about on-line multiperson games that make use of GPS or other location information. All ideas, especially crazy ones, are welcome.
- Cricket Boggle (http://ozone.csail.mit.edu/~coreymcc): A fast location-based implementation of Boggle.
Random
Nintendo's Wii Gets in Motion (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2006/tc20060509_649638.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily) STMicro's MEMS chip provides detection for Nintendo Wii's wand controller.
Pentop Computer (http://www.mobilityguru.com/2005/12/19/pentop_computing_is_more_than_a_kids/) Larry's idea coming to life...
Apple Camera Array (http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/) Reports that Apple patented a display with thousands of embedded cameras among LCD pixels.
Douglas Adams (http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html) - The venerable Douglas Adams believes pervasive computing to be the future...
Guido-Nokia (http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=148064&ignore=1) - Apparently Guido has just started writing Python on his new Nokia phone...
Microsoft Origami (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/umpc/default.mspx) - It seems that Microsoft has decided to get into the mobile device arena. The claim is that this device is the "ultra-mobile" PC, as opposed to a laptop or your average handheld device. Interestingly, as far as I can tell, the current devices being marketed look like oversized ipaqs on steroids. Still, it doesn't make sense to me that they trying to force a handheld to become a PC, when instead they should be treating a handheld as a handheld. More articles here (http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=169962).
Alphagrips (http://www.alphagrips.com/) - Continuing the trend of real-world stuff that seems to go along with our course, Alphagrips just lauched their new keyboard + mouse device. It looks like a big game-controller pad designed to be used with mobile devices and laptops. And you thought the one-handed chord keyboard was weird ...
[Loki wifi based location (http://www.loki.com)] This company seems to have mapped wifi base stations at many US cities. Just from the base staion id, they can tell where you are! It works well with Firefox on Windows. Install it, and it just knows where you are if you use a wireless.
[Cabspotting (http://cabspotting.org)]: an alternate view of a living city. an online art experience that traces the movement of San Francisco's GPS-enabled Yellow Cabs as they move through the city. It's part of the Exploratorium's larger Invisible Dynamics initiative to "reveal radically surprising and inspiring views of the systems interconnecting the communities of the Bay."
[Context Watcher (http://www.lab.telin.nl/~koolwaaij/showcase/crf/cw.html)]: a neat python application to store context information - location, weather, people nearby, etc. Also, examples of how to use this information.
[Social Network Service for Cell Phones (http:http://www.vcellvibes.com/)]: A small startup VCEL (Virtual Communication Expression & Lifestyle) has unveiled a new social networking service for cell phones. All you need to do to keep in contact with your friends 24/7 is to create a profile with their website, download a Java application for your cell phone (more than 20 models are supported already), and send an invitation to your buddies. Here we go: you can exchange comments, pictures, plan on activities together, etc. You'd have the same control over your profile either from phone or from web browser. They have a nice Java applet for your page, so you can leave your buddies a voice message right from your computer and so on.
Future of Mobile Phones (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/magazine_future_of_mobile/html/1.stm): A contest for design students with some neat results.
Job Postings for Pervasive, Human-Centric Computing
Develop Wireless Mobile Educational Games (New summer opportunity!)
