Archive for February, 2008

article about RFID

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

http://www.nu.nl/news/1434775/50/Geen_nieuwe_wetgeving_rond_identificatiechip.html

Mystery?

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Mystery, originally uploaded by Arjan S.. Some months ago I saw this piece of art at the 2007 Documenta in Kassel. It struck me as being quite impressive, in the way ...

Let’s invent a wheel….

Monday, February 11th, 2008

I just found out that the Musical Flower Pot concept I worked on has already been made into a commercial product. A friend of mine sent me this picture which she took on the Spielwarenmesse. Apparently the product even won some prize! Click on the picture to go to the ...

Wiimote + RC car = … fun!

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Today I finally got around playing with the RC car I bought some weeks ago. As a part of the Acrobatic Car project, the goal for now was to create a car which is able to balance itself on top of something moving, like a large ball or cylinder. Having already ...

RFID in Processing

Monday, February 4th, 2008

An open source RFID library The Hybrid Toys workshop of last January gave its participants the opportunity to experiment with the possibilities of RFID. However, some of the participants, the author being one of them, were frustrated by the fact that an external perl script was used to do the ...

Wouldnt it be nice…. (RFID-killer)

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Concerning RFID and all the fuzz about privacy. RFID-chips are likely to be used a lot in the future. Containing or spreading out information about the person carrying them. The more you carry, the more information you'll be spreading around. The question of coarse will be, do you mind or not. Which ...