Three weeks ago I, Anders, attended the Hackathon weekend at Stapelbäddsparken in Malmö. It was freezing cold ( +1 degree Celcius! ) inside a works building on the old Kockums shipyard. Tom and Måns, from Bambuser Hall of fame, were fiddling with the event and with a phone-operated door-lock. Here is the intro to the project – http://stpln.com/blog/?project-proposal=remote-controlled-doorlock/
I was more interested in the 3.5 mm hack as that was close to the Brainball stuff we did last spring, but got some code for the lock and started to improve the user-interface of the iPhone app. As I’m also attending the course Android and iPhone development I joined with Johnny and Niklas for a group work in the class and we decided to improve on the iPhone app. Måns gave us the Arduino server and lock, and here is the result! Måns is filming, Niklas is tapping on the phone and Johnny can be seen in the background:
http://bambuser.com/channel/M%C3%A5nster/broadcast/1480539
Appkalaset – demonstrating the lock for public
Last Thursday we had an event with the Android/iPhone class called Det Stora Appkalaset, The big app-party. More than 190 people attendended the great seminars and looked at the more than 75 iPhone/Android apps on display produced by the class and available on Appstore or Android Market. Here’s an image from the door lock table.
Niklas demonstrating the iPhone operated door lock
Later on more people arrived and filled the room as can be seen in this picture. Martin from TAT (recently bought by RIM) is starting his presentation, describing their company that started on the C64/Amiga demo-scene.
People loved the door lock, and we got some really great hints on other use cases and one guy even said he could help with seed capital. What a day!
0 Responses to “Phone operated door lock”