The SHH now has a LED DMX controlled 64 can floor lamp. We plan on using it for a ambient lighting system hooked up to the house’s sensor/data system being controlled by an Arduino. Reacting to data such as weather, time and presence. Currently the Arduino DMX shields (used to control the lamps) are out of stock on Tinker.it.
So once we get our hands on the DMX shield we’ll start piecing together the lighting system. For now the video demo’s the audio activation feature inbuilt into the LEDJ 64Can
Watch this space.
Featured! Simon Maddox as the stunning identity expert in this Men in Black 3 Swede created by a merry crew last weekend. :) Enjoy.
MIB3 on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
We have Wiki
Thanks to @iamdanw we now have a wiki for the house. The wiki will be used to store information about the house, hacks and guests.
If you ever visit or stay over at the house please an entry in our guest book on the wiki.
Feel free to edit it at http://wiki.theshh.org
The SHH is triangulating your iPhone
We’ve added our wifi access point to Skyhook. Now if you’re using iPhone geolocation or other apps such as the delightful fireeagle updater Clarke in our home you’ll get accurate location information without good GPS signal.
This is lovely because it reuses existing infrastructure (our wifi) to make things easier for any context-aware apps we might build without us having to create any fancy infrastructure/code of our own.
If you want to do the same for your own home follow the instructions on the Skyhook site.
We have a coffe table! And another dining table! And little lamps! Starting to feel like a home.
Doorbell with inbuilt visitor statistics display - We need to build one of these for the house using RFID tags for checking in and out.
Nabaztag and Mac voice synthesizers hacking in the house tonight, house RFID system was extended with some speaking: http://bit.ly/rdH7l
RFID hack now with voice (via andienordgren)
Updated my music hack day RFID code to also speak the name the tag has been given in the web app when the tag is read.
The name is returned when the Hacker House rfid web app is called to register the event that a tag is read, and returns the name of the object which is then spoken on the local machine connected to the tag reader.
