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	<title>todbot blog &#187; ubicomp</title>
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	<description>Random experiments, circuits, code, rapid prototyping, sometimes things to buy, and the odd tune by Tod E. Kurt.</description>
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		<title>NFC &amp; RFID on Android, my Where2.0 2011 talk</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2011/04/21/nfc-rfid-on-android-my-where2-0-2011-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2011/04/21/nfc-rfid-on-android-my-where2-0-2011-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

I was invited to be a speaker at O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference.  It's a conference mostly about mapping technologies, location-based services, and interesting new location-aware mobile apps.  

I spoke about RFID and NFC, in the context of the release of the new NFC-capable Android phone, the Google Nexus S.  Having an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WiFi for Arduino with Asus WL-520gu</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2010/12/16/wifi-for-arduino-with-asus-wl-520gu/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2010/12/16/wifi-for-arduino-with-asus-wl-520gu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Arduino but its lack of wireless bugs me.  And it sucks that WiFi Shields for the Arduino cost as much a cell phone.  I want something cheap.  Turns out, small, cheap WiFi routers like the Asus WL-520gu can run the DD-WRT Linux firmware and act as serial-to-network gateway for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>62</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hacking USB HID for Easy Tethered Ubicomp</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2010/09/22/hacking-usb-hid-for-easy-tethered-ubicomp/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2010/09/22/hacking-usb-hid-for-easy-tethered-ubicomp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this years Sketching in Hardware conference, I gave a talk on the general approach I used to create LinkM, ThingM's USB-to-I2C adapter for programming and controlling BlinkMs.  I called it "Hacking USB HID for Easy Tethered Ubicomp" (4.8MB PDF) to give it a form that fit within some of the larger issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much RFID</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2009/11/19/too-much-rfid/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2009/11/19/too-much-rfid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Okay so I’m a big RFID nerd, did a lot of consulting work using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;WiiChuck&#8221; Wii Nunchuck Adapter Available</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/02/18/wiichuck-wii-nunchuck-adapter-available/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/02/18/wiichuck-wii-nunchuck-adapter-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to hook up a Wii Nunchuck to an Arduino but don't want to cut up the cord on  your Nunchuck?  Yeah me too.  So I made some of these:





It's a small PCB that adapts the Wii Nunchuck connector to standard 4-pin header. I call it the "wiichuck adapter". It plugs [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>251</slash:comments>
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		<title>WineM lights, a BlinkM predecessor</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/01/24/winem-lights-a-blinkm-predecessor/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/01/24/winem-lights-a-blinkm-predecessor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With BlinkMs available for purchase soon, I figured it would be neat to show what a large collection of them can do.  BlinkMs were created from my desire to have a "smart LED" that did its own tri-color PWM. I didn't want to build a real-time system to control the PWM of several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things at ThingM, my Berkeley INFO290-13 talk</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/11/09/things-at-thingm/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/11/09/things-at-thingm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Nov 8th I was a guest lecturer at the "Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces" class at UC Berkeley. It's a physical computing course, about "a new approach to HCI which focuses on the physical interaction with computational media."  The class has both lecture and lab components.  The lab section [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WineM prototype at NextFest</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/09/12/winem-prototype-at-nextfest/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/09/12/winem-prototype-at-nextfest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[thingm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

WineM solves the problem of remembering all the information about the wines in a large wine rack, cellar or cabinet, or searching through that data. This smart wine rack makes that information always accessible and updatable.

ThingM will be at Wired's NextFest conference, showing off a prototype of our WineM product.  Come visit us [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Smart Interface Components, my Sketching07 talk</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/07/03/smart-interface-components-my-sketching07-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/07/03/smart-interface-components-my-sketching07-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

The Sketching in Hardware 2 conference was a blast. So many interesting people and ideas. I wish we could have it every few months.  Mike has his notes and a good summary of this year's Sketching.

My talk was on "Smart Interface Components".  It was a generalization of the things I've been thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smart LED Prototypes</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/03/25/smart-led-prototypes/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/03/25/smart-led-prototypes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[


LEDs should be smarter.  Sure we have flashing LED assemblies and even rudimentary RGB-flashing discrete LEDs.  But LEDs themselves are predominately just dumb lights.  There's no real reason for this.  Fab processes for microcontrollers and LEDs aren't that dissimilar.  It should be possible to have both in a single [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Ubicomp of Tomorrow, After These Messages</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/02/28/the-ubicomp-of-tomorrow-after-these-messages/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/02/28/the-ubicomp-of-tomorrow-after-these-messages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my periodic perusal of Warren Ellis's blog, I see he's linked to Nicolas Nova's post about "The Ubiquitous Computing of Today".  Nicolas discusses a great LIFT07 paper, "Yesterdayâ€™s tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computingâ€™s dominant vision" by Genevieve Bell and Paul Dourish (Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2006).  He and the paper highlight [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>LoveM Memory Chocolates technology sketch</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/02/14/lovem-memory-chocolates-technology-sketch/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/02/14/lovem-memory-chocolates-technology-sketch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another technology sketch from my company ThingM.  This time it's Valentine's Day-themed, with LoveM, a heart-shaped box of "memory chocolates".


(revver link)

Abstract:

LoveM is a Technology Sketch of an augmented box of chocolates that displays personal memories on an LCD screen as chocolates are removed from the box. It attempts to evoke joy and surprise [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>WineM, a ThingM technology sketch</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/01/15/winem-a-thingm-technology-sketch/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/01/15/winem-a-thingm-technology-sketch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At my new company ThingM, Mike and I have completed a technology sketch for WineM, a smart wine rack.  Below is a video demonstration and an abstract.  A full description can be found on the ThingM site.  We periodically create Technology Sketches as a way to explore the ideas we're thinking [...]]]></description>
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