on-signal

Bluetooth…

Just ordered a Bluetooth Class 1 V2.0 EDR Dongle, which has a range of 250 metres! For the Kattenbak art collective, we’re doing a project with ’spamming’ movies made by artists of the collective on the Kunstvlaai expo coming May. The Kunstvlaai is the alternative art expo/festival to the “official” KunstRAI exhibit.

I’m writing the software using Java 1.5 and the Bluecove bluetooth interface. Have used Eclipse for the first time, and I must say, it’s a nice editor/IDE; it compiles on the fly while you type, so the errors you make are immediately visible. Very nicely done. I guess it uses a lot of memory, but hey, I’ve got a brand-new Dell XPS1530M laptop with a whopping 4gigs of RAM, so I don’t see the problem…

I’ve dedicated a project page on our wiki to our Bluetooth project. When the software has matured some more, I’ll post it there.