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colorWheel: change the color of RGB LEDs

This is a demo of my colorWheel prototype.

Since I bought the Philips Ambilight I was frustrated because I was not able to change the color with my Mac or the iPhone. I now bought some IR controllable LEDs and integrated them into my HAL9031 API.

The iPhone App simply uses the build in accelerometer to rotate the colorWheel selection.
Tap the screen and the LEDs change their color!

The Flash Multitouch App changes the color of the LEDs and of the animation that loops in the background.

// The sound you can hear is programmed. It was generated by Flash & Midi.

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25
Nov 09

HAL9031: Demovideo

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14
Nov 09

HAL9031: preview screens

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11
Nov 09

HAL9031: Presenting an artificial intelligence

Welcome to the future.

Science has always been influenced by science fiction. Developments are often inspired by the inconceivably future technology found in literature and movies.

Inspired by Kubricks Movie 2001 – A Space Odyssey and a lot of Star-Trek I am proud to announce HAL9031.
In the past 3 years I have been working on HAL.

HAL was planned as an artificial intelligence that could learn from human behavior to support humans in their daily life.

The catchment area of HAL is unlimited:

HAL has access to motion sensors. The system knows where you are
HAL can control different Macintoshs in a network
HAL can control Infra-Red based devices
HAL can control light and electric circuits
HAL can send audio via wireless-lan
HAL can trigger shell commands
HAL can notice RFID events
HAL is able to speak. (By using the native Mac OS X speech synthesizers and wireless-lan)
HAL can run on several touchscreen panels for local input.
HAL is also available on iPhone, providing a input interface for communication.
HAL is the next generation of home automation.
HAL is a boardcomputer for modern living.
HAL is different.
HAL is intelligent.

HAL is constantly learning from human behavior.

To know how long a person is inside one room the AI differentiates between a space change or activity in a room.
The AI is able to recognize if a room inside a house is “still needed“.

To know if a room is still needed the AI has to learn what a person is doing. HAL has access to a lot of informations like e.g. the position of the sun, how long you usually sleep or when was the last time you ate something.

Intelligence means to reduce, relate and evaluate the given facts.

The AI uses motion profiles to recognize patterns in daily tasks to so communicate what HAL “thinks” a person is doing.

At the Moment HAL can differentiate between the following situations:

you fall asleep
you wake up
you are not at home
you come back home
you are under the shower
you are on the toilet
you are working
you are reading
you are running around in your house
you stay at one position
you have visitors

If a situation is recognized the AI adjusts itself to provide useful support.

Example:

When you wake up HAL recognizes the moment you enter the bathroom. Music fades in. If you just woke up it is very probably that you use your shower. If you are still at the bathroom after a couple of minutes the shower mode is confirmed. The AI now evaluate it’s decision as correct.

The music you are listening to gets louder (it’s loud under the shower, adjust the volume so that the user can hear to sound).
Every 5 minutes the HAL announces the current time so that you don’t get lost under the shower.

When you are listening to music HAL recognizes your movement and decides automatically to send your music to (multiple) rooms you entered. Exactly like the light, the AI decides when it makes sense to turn it off.

HAL can also wake you up. There is no need for a bell that shocks you in the morning. With the native HAL app on the iPhone a wake up time can easily be submitted to HAL.
HAL loves Macintosh. (“Only Macintosh was designed to function perfectly” (Quote HAL9000, Apple AD))
HAL can communicate with nearly every program on a mac, your wake up time e.g. is also saved inside iCal!

Videos are coming soon, stay tuned! Don’t you Dave?

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6
Nov 09

There is something coming up…

HAl9031 is getting native.. stay tuned!
HAL9031 Startup Screen HAL9031 wakeMe Screen

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23
Oct 09

blobDrop – MultiTouch Version

Here is a video of the blobDrop system:

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23
Oct 09

blobDrop 0.7 – merging iPhone and Flash

At the moment I am working on a project called blobDrop.

blobDrop is a realtime photo & video gallery available on iPhone, online or locally on a multitouch device.

blobDrop is a realtime installation. New content is synchronized on every running instance.

Users can participate online by uploading footage or by recording a video. This can also be done locally on a central Multi-Touch device or with an iPhone app.

Take a snapshot – Participate and share impression.

blobDrop iPhone App preview:

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9
Oct 09

How to use the iPhone GPS Class CLLocationManager

The following code returns the latitude and longitude of a GPS enabled iPhone:


#import "locationTestAppDelegate.h"
#import 

@implementation locationTestAppDelegate

@synthesize window;
@synthesize locationManager;

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {    

    [window makeKeyAndVisible];

	locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init];

}

- (void)dealloc {
    [window release];
    [super dealloc];
}

-(id) init {
	NSLog(@"GPS");
    if (self = [super init]) {
        currentLocation = [[CLLocation alloc] init];
        locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init];
        locationManager.delegate = self;
        [self start];
    }
    return self;
}

-(void) start {
	NSLog(@"START SEARCHING...");
    [locationManager startUpdatingLocation];
}
-(void) stop {
	NSLog(@"STOP SEARCHING.");
    [locationManager stopUpdatingLocation];
}

- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation fromLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation {

	if ( abs([newLocation.timestamp timeIntervalSinceDate: [NSDate date]]) < 120) {
        currentLocation = newLocation;
		NSString *GPSPosition = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"lat=%f&lng=%f", currentLocation.coordinate.latitude, currentLocation.coordinate.longitude ];

		NSLog(@"FOUND YOU: ");
		NSLog(GPSPosition);

		UIAlertView *alert;
		alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"GPS Location:" message:GPSPosition delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
		[alert show];
		[alert release];
	}
}

- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didFailWithError:(NSError *)error {
	NSLog(@"locationManager ERROR");
    UIAlertView *alert;
    alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Error" message:[error description] delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
    [alert show];
    [alert release];
}

@end

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7
Oct 09

Control different lights with the iPhone based on your position

This is the HAL iPhone App.

It is based on the HAL9031 API

http://code.google.com/p/hal9031/

It basically triggers AppleScripts to control lights via X10.

Multi-Touch Features and the User-tracking Class of HAL9031 make it smarter as the interface may look.

Based on the position of the User the app only controls the device that is near the user. If there are more lights in one room you can trigger them by pressing the light button with more than one finger.

Another example of user-location-based programming is the HAL IR (infra red) module. You can send IR signals to different rooms. If you are near the TV the Power button toggels the state of the device that is in the same room as you are.

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25
Sep 09

New Mousse-T website online!

For the launch of the new Mousse-T website we integrated the tellMe system; a gateway developed by thirtyOne media.
tellMe is part of the bob-video-message system which was also integrated in the page.

Users can record videos and save them to a gallery. The gallery is also available on the iPhone:

Screendesign (web): Department-M
Coding: thirtyOne Media

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