Zipcar and beginnings of LCA

March 22nd, 2010

This week we were asked to assume that we worked for a newly formed company that seeks to provide products and services that improve human life, and the environment and that we would be reviewing a number of potential products to offer, including the products we’ve chosen… in this case Zipcar. Read the rest of this entry »

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Asterisk as mixtape music controller

March 17th, 2010

For my mid-term in Redial I decided to explore using Asterisk as a music controller. Over the course of the semester I’ve experimented extensively with the Playback, Control Playback and Background applications of Asterisk with music.  The PLAYBACK application plays sound or video files stored in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds file (you must delete the extension for Read the rest of this entry »

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‘Open Office’ project using XBee & Arduino

March 3rd, 2010

For our mid-term we were asked to work in groups to create a Simple Sensor Network using ZB XBees… one that creates a mesh network covering a large area. After meeting the class settled on creating a network that covered ITP’s 4th floor a network that notifies when certain professor’s door’s were opened and/or closed. We were all asked to take on a different aspect of the project and for this project I decided to take on the task of documenting the overall project. Read the rest of this entry »

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