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Introducing the Spime Design Workshops

david

At the start of a new technology there are a lot of factors determining its success, or hindering its diffusion. The availability of the right development tools, or of a good documentation, for example. Also, somewhat less evidently, it is not always easy to immediately adopt the right mindset, the open attitude that lets creative coders, and hardware hackers imagine future applications that people will want to use, [...]

Much Ado For OpenSpime

Babele Dunnit

… well, fact is, about one month before Frontiers ’08, which was held in Turin on July, 1, we all developers on the OpenSpime chat were brainstorming about something to show. Applications of the OpenSpime protocol are nearly endless, but we were thinking about something social and useful like the very first OS application developed by Roberto Ostinelli and Davide “Folletto” Casali, which was CO2 sensing, i.e. air pollution.
The [...]