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It seems to me that the hook.io project would make an ideal candidate for the software to connect these devices. 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.
Cheers,
Marcus
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Hey Shadowmint, I think you need to checkout http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/backing%20a%20project Cheers, Marcus
Who is responsible for making sure project creators deliver what they promise? Every creator is responsible for fulfilling the promises of their project. Because projects are usually funded by the friends, fans, and communities around its creator, there are powerful social forces that keep creators accountable. Creators are also encouraged to post regular updates about the progress of their project post-funding — com…
For some reason I feel more comfortable with pledging money to a small business on kickstarter than through an online store having them say "we'll get it to you in four months time". I realise it's just a slight mental shift, but it really changes the way I look at things.
Perhaps it's time for KickStarter to adapt to the growth in this area, by spinning of a products and projects site (still kickstarted branded and hosted) which does help folks bootstrap small companies that actually need to buy stuff in quantities to make something viable.
It's interesting to see an incubator-backed startup leveraging Kickstarter. Definitely a pretty cool concept though.
I'm actually confused. I remember Kickstarter specifically saying that they didn't fund startups back when I applied to them.
Cheers,
Marcus
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Who is responsible for making sure project creators deliver what they promise? Every creator is responsible for fulfilling the promises of their project. Because projects are usually funded by the friends, fans, and communities around its creator, there are powerful social forces that keep creators accountable. Creators are also encouraged to post regular updates about the progress of their project post-funding — com…
I think what the guys is done is fair enough, although I can definitely see the point you are making. The thing for me about this that makes it more kickstarter like than ready for an online store presence is the fact that it's going to be a few months before I get my hands on some shiny Ninja Blocks. For some reason I feel more comfortable with pledging money to a small business on kickstarter than through an online…
Just shift the pre-sales out of the pledges and into 'we have some accountability' area for people who want to buy something.
Some kind of phased release of the funds to the project if they meet certain delivery milestones or something. I'm sure it could work~
(and you know, be ethical and legal at the same time...)
It seems to me that the hook.io project would make an ideal candidate for the software to connect these devices. 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.
Hook.io looks great! FYI we're actually using http://www.zeromq.org/ and getting 10,000 messages per second off the Ninja Block ;-) Cheers, Marcus
hook.io supports multi-transport messaging protocols.
There has been lots of talk of ZeroMQ as a message transport in hook.io, it's coming soon.
IMO, you shouldn't be worried about messages per second between devices right now. You should be worried about how you are going to communicate between 1000s of 3rd party services. hook.io aims to solve that problem.
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…
Not sure this is what you meant, but the iPhone 4S already has a Bluetooth Low Energy radio and an API to control it (CoreBluetooth).
Great, so now a cloud service will know when somebody is at my front door and all other sensors fire. Privacy where are you...
Privacy is a legitimate concern, but there are useful things you can do that you might feel comfortable sharing with our servers. Zero-information computing is really hard, and we didn't feel it was worth the time it'd take to give that kind of strong guarantee.
Are you really free software? Give me the (server) software.
For $25 I can get a simple server and Ill use it.
