Sg2009wc:hardware

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Title: Hardware Mash-ups

Session: 4-F Bay Area Jan 2009

Convener: Alison Chaiken

Attendees:

Notes:

Get hackable hardware components from:

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BugLabs BUGbase Hiro P Edition (http://store.buglabs.net/BUGbase)

TikiTag - RFID reader to create your own web services linking physical world objects with the online world GumStix (http://www.gumstix.com/), Arduino, Open Moko (http://www.openmoko.com/), Make module X-10 home automation systems from RadioShack – easy to use but not customizable

Industrial sensors from SparkFun, ArcoName

Idea of composable ubiquitous computing

Protocols is a big issue; no one wants to work on interop, just doing their own

Need web interfaces to program the hardware

XB is the o/s version of Zig B

Powerlines networked through lightbulbs; LEDs have Mhz bandwidth, could do room illumination, ECMA – visible light communication

Skin networks, Karen Marcelo, IntL, Microsoft; motes