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Seems similar in concept as http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/supermechanical/twine-li... but offers a different UI/event-action model and few more integrated services. I wonder if these tiny-sensor-computer makers can come up with a standard so we can remotely control any of them without knowing the specific APIs.
You can't claim it's Open Hardware and then not publish the layout files.
With tech like this, that can sense and communicate events that happen in the physical world, I'd imagine that the globe will become sentient in 100 years. Just adding more and more nodes to the ever increasing network.
You could sadly do better with an Arduino Mini and a Zigbee, if you had "Hello World" level knowledge of electronics and microcontroller programming. One of the big ongoing issues in this field is that sensor nodes need to be cheap, as you ideally want to have a number of them around. Simultaneously, you need to not be changing batteries all the time. Want to see some serious internet-of-things action? Put Bluetooth…
This is simple a higher abstraction framework. Something I can probably entertain my SO with.
I'm CS/EE and I'd still use something like this and enjoy it. If I had any time left for distractions right now.
Might take the plunge.
Excellent work guys - looks rad
Cheers,
Marcus
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Hey Chime, I'm Marcus, one of the developers on Ninja Blocks. We're currently doing Ninja Blocks within Startmate (an Australian accelerator similar to YC). To answer your question: We're open source so people could take what we've done and build a standard on it. Cheers, Marcus
Hey Marcus, I don't know if this helps but www.DonationTo.com enables you to keep 100% of all your fundraising dollars. NO 5% deduction. If you don't reach your goal you still keep your funds collected. Hope this helps the Ninja Blocks project, its a very cool product overall!
This is one of those great concepts that has a "this needs to happen" feeling, and it's a matter of who's going to do a great job with it. Looks like Ninja Blocks is on the right track. However, as I think about the concept more, I'm having a difficult time finding a useful case for the concept. I think it's just because I'm not creative enough. So what would you, Hacker News reader, use Ninja Blocks for?
Monitoring of hydroponics setups.
https://github.com/hookio/hook.io
hook.io is all about building the software for connecting devices together to do functionality like this. It would be amazing to see this coupled with actual custom hardware.
...however, sigh this is exactly what you should _not_ be using kickstarter for.
Kickstarter is not a shop, and I hope that anyone who pledges towards them realizes that they are supporting the project _not buying something_, and those $$$ have absolutely 1) no guarantee on receiving any product or 2) no recourse if anything is defective / wrong / whatever on it.
Kickstarter shouldn't be allowing this sort of project.