The Shoreditch Hacker House

Internet/Ethernet Controlled Lights @theshh
We take a step up from the last internet controlled LED video and now have a working DMX lamp controlled via the interweb.

09.15 into this clip, Andie interviews hacker Pablos of...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:42:19 +0000

09.15 into this clip, Andie interviews hacker Pablos of Intellectual Ventures Lab about 3D printers and hardware hacking.

FourTap - Checking in to Foursquare using an Oystercard

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:32:00 +0000

FourTap - Checking in to Foursquare using an Oystercard

Arduino Web Controlled LED @theSHHNext step: Hook up the DMX...

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:50:54 +0100

Arduino Web Controlled LED @theSHH
Next step: Hook up the DMX lamp to the web controller

Casting a wider net - The SHH gets a mention on slide 29 of this...

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:42:27 +0100

Casting a wider net - The SHH gets a mention on slide 29 of this presentation on Arduino in education.

Our oven glove has eyes

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:37:59 +0100

Our oven glove has eyes

The SHH now has a LED DMX controlled 64 can floor lamp. We plan...

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:47:00 +0100

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...

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:32:11 +0100

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)

SHH Timelapse

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:33:12 +0100

SHH Timelapse

We have Wiki

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:08:00 +0100

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

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:32:03 +0100

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.

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:34:43 +0100

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...

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:53:42 +0100

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...

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:44:05 +0100

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...

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:08:00 +0100

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.