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Crowdsourcing is about the individual

By Pat On September 2, 2010 · Add Comment · In bushfire project, honours
Crowdsourcing is a form of outsourcing, but instead of only assigning one person or group to the job/task, you get ‘the crowd’. The crowd is anyone willing to complete the job. A very well referred to example is the online T-Shirt company “Threadless“. Their business model revolves around the crowd. The crowd helps them design [...]
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Arduino weather station – alpha prototype

By Pat On October 27, 2009 · Add Comment · In bushfire project
Two days ago, I presented my Alpha prototype weather station. The system used an arduino board to communicate temperature data and a wind speeds through the usb. The computer connected has a bluetooth signal which a mobile phone can connect to. And then the magic begins, Just to point out, my project isn’t intended to [...]
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Arduino weather station – 2 weeks out.

By Pat On October 16, 2009 · 2 Comments · In bushfire project
I recently bought a modular arduino kit from Seeed studio I bought a shield that provides plug connections – “Electronic Brick Shield V4” …and then bought myself a few sensors, like temperature sensor, magnet sensor and a CO sensor. So far…I really like the setup they’ve got going. Its so easy to connect things together [...]
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Sydney sky turns red

By Pat On September 23, 2009 · Add Comment · In Uncategorized
This morning, the sky turned red as what is believed a dust storm was blown across into Sydney. Strong winds last night has managed to pick up the dust and move it across the city. Reports have suggested a massive slow down on all transportation. M5 East tunnel is down, ferries suspended and flights also [...]
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Arduino weather station – User testing

By Pat On September 19, 2009 · Add Comment · In bushfire project
A real issue I’ve got is dealing with how people will access the weather station. So far I can only think of dialing in a number to the station…or maybe a predefined message and people then send a text message, like those tv ads that sell crap to people via mobile phone text messages. But [...]
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Animania 2009

By Pat On September 6, 2009 · 17 Comments · In Anime
Pictures for Animania Sydney 2009 on the Sunday. Our first attempt at cosplay. We went in as the Shinsengumi of the Gintama series. Its more happy snaps than anything. Didn’t even try to be professional today. Things arn’t sorted, or labeled, but its fine. //* Update. Things ARE now labeled.
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Arduino Weather station – making a screen

By Pat On September 5, 2009 · Add Comment · In bushfire project
I’ve been making a GUI type screen, and i’ve been basing a lot of the design with Gmail’s email app which I have been using a lot on my Nokia N73. Its a super simple design, no real controls are on the screen, all just email. Each email has its own row, and displays the [...]
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Arduino weather station – 1st week

By Pat On September 3, 2009 · Add Comment · In bushfire project
Its the first time I’ve finally settled in with an idea, and little unsure of what to do or how to progress. Been reading a lot of wikipedia about bushfires, about the 2009 Victorian fires, about weather stations…. I know I probably shouldn’t read off wiki but its just too convenient. I’ve had in mind [...]
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