Yearly Archives: 2009

Hardware Hacking: YDN @ Skillsmatter

Posted on 5 November 2009 by Bob

I will be giving a talk at SkillsMatter in London on Hardware Hacking. This will be on Tuesday 1st December and will be the final talk in the Yahoo! Developer Network’s YDN Tuesday series. This talk will be an introduction … Continue reading →

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Starting my own ‘bot

Posted on 2 October 2009 by Bob

Most of my hardware arrived, after an epic eBay session. A couple of new Arduino shields, namely a motor driver board and a wave shield, although I’m actually planning on using the wave shield on a children’s toy (possibly). I … Continue reading →

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A day in the life of a booth bunny

Posted on 2 October 2009 by Bob

Yesterday was the first day of FoWA, the Future of Web Applications tech conference, and although my wife was 8 days overdue with the birth of our first born, I offered to help at the Yahoo! Developers Network stand as … Continue reading →

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Junkbots

Posted on 25 September 2009 by Bob

Recently I subscribed to MAKEzine and it has reinvigorated my interest if hardware hacking. Which is good, as I’m doing a talk at SkillsMatter in December on that very subject. Since I won an iPhone in a raffle last month … Continue reading →

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Tesco TJam

Posted on 5 August 2009 by Bob

So this evening I attended Tesco’s TJam event held at Microsoft’s London Customer Centre at Victoria. Tesco is starting the rollout of it’s new backend Grocery application, code named Martini (anytime, anyplace, anywhere). They have opened up their new APIs … Continue reading →

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