February 2008

In case you hadn’t heard, we’ve made Botanicalls Twitter as a do-it-yourself example for people who like to–well–do it themselves. It’s the first step in making Botanicalls available to a wider audience, and the online press has taken note. In the last 48 hours, we’ve been graced by the attention of: Make Magazine CNet Slashdot […]

Why is this man smiling? It’s because our XBee API Library for Processing now can handle multiple I/O samples in each data frame. This is a big help for projects getting high frequency data, like accelerometer information, where the sample rate needs to be very frequent. For example, if you want to take samples every

The Eye-Fi card is a memory card for cameras that wirelessly uploads photos to your home computer or to online services like Flickr. It connects automatically to a pre-selected Wi-Fi network, then interactively transfers JPEG files in real-time. The whole thing operates out of a standard-size SD memory card, a technical feat so incredible that

Dan Shiffman and I are continuing development on our Processing library for Digi’s XBee radios. The 1.1 library now facilitates receiving single sample I/O packets in API mode from both the Series 1 and ZNet radios (formerly known as Series 2), and returns an object that contains the analog values, digital values, sender’s address. Please