In addition to the pile of Podcasters running around recording everyone, There is a Podcasting Robot roaming the hallways.
Monthly Archive for June, 2005
There is a Live Feed of Gnomedex available for those who want to listen in.
Microsoft is showing off Longhorn/IE7 and it’s RSS support. They have been drinking the koolaid. IE7 will have built in RSS autodetection, they’re consolidating the subscriptions into a common feed pile which any app can then access, and talking about outlook automatically picking up and executing RSS enclosed iCal data. Scary thought really. They’ve also added a bunch of RSS extensions (not surprising). These will be released at noon today under a Creative Commons Share-alike license. Surprising.
Earlier, Dave Winer got everyone to sing Yellow Submarine. Video is on iMob
I have a splitting headache/hangover. Thanks google.
Gnomdex is having a kickoff event at the Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center tonight. In preparation, I’ve created an iMob topic. Here is the vCard for those of you want to put your pictures/videos up.
Google is sponsoring the party… I wonder what that means in terms of drink tickets.
This week, Casey brought his sparkfun phone and we made some calls, we pulled apart a simple patch antenna, and we stored some data in the ether. Casey also brought along the Train Node, and we got to take a look at the splash pages and slick Intranet features. I talked a little bit about the Seattle Neighborhood Coalition and the Broadband Telecommunications TaskForce as well.
On a fun note, We took another look at Second Life, a massive 3D Online world that features user-made objects, streaming audio and video and even a currency exchanges, it will soon contain an in-game browser. While this isn’t the MetaVerse yet, it’s making a pretty strong attempt, and several of us shelled out the $10 to walk around and explore the wilderness.
I thought javascript sucked. Then I saw Moon Cheese.
It’s 10 days to Gnomedex, and although it is officially sold out, you can still join in the fun by getting a “Cove” pass
This morning I had breakfast with the Seattle Neighborhood Coalition, a community discussion group that has been eating breakfast on 7th Avenue every month for the past 20 years. Today’s topic was the Broadband Telecommunications Taskforce (established last year by Jim Compton), and there were several speakers that weighed in their opinions of what the Report actually brings to our fair city.
I grabbed some video with my phone, and put it up on iMob::Seattle for those of you who are interested. (You will need a .3gp codec installed to view these)
- Mike Weisman – Reclaim the Media
- Tony Perez – City of Seattle
- Bill Covington – BTT Member
- Nick Licata [1|2] – Seattle City Council
Tonight we experimented with the Soekris net4826 and USB, talked a bit about various projects we’re all working on, and did some gear swapping.
Also, I don’t know if anyone else noticed this, but in the movie National Treasure (the in-flight movie on my recent trip), they are using a modified LinksysWRT54g to hack into the security video feed at the National Archive.
It is of course, just a prop, but if you really wanted to do some sort of video capture and playback on an AP, I think you’d have much better luck with a Netgear WGT634U or a Soekris board since there is no USB on the WRT and adding one is likely out of the realm of your average document thief. None of these will run on that 9 volt battery for very long (seconds at most), but we’ll overlook that. None of these boards are very fast, so you’re probably not going to use one for a Tivo replacement, but you *might* be able to fool an extremely lazy and unobservant security guard. (No, I wouldn’t recommend trying it.)
Probably the quickest route (hardware-wise, all bets are off on software) to get both NTSC in and out is a combo device like the Hauppauge My Video
If you think results may be better with both dedicated capture and display devices, I think you’re out of luck. NTSC Video input can be achieved with either USB or MiniPCI, but getting the video back out is going to be tough. As far as I can tell, there are no standalone USB video out devices. Getting VGA out is possible and can be accomplished with a USB 2.0 video adapter, or if you can find one, a MiniPCI ATI Rage.
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