Now that we can move the robot, we need to be able to see where we are going. To give our robot eyes within flash, I first tried a series of images using the still image command from the Rovio api (/Jpeg/CamImg[value].jpg). This produced stuttering, unreliable quality video. I needed to get at the video [...]

A year ago I published a post about widgets coming to the television. A year later I have widgets on my TV. Now that I have experienced the widgets first hand, there is not much change to my feelings about the basics of the previous post.
There is still no bridge between the cable content coming [...]

Using a keyboard to navigate a virtual space; be it the internet, a game or some other format, is familiar to most adults and older children. The Wowwee Rovio (rover) can be driven by such keyboard controls or mouse clicks with the built-in interface. Couple of problems with this however:

The interactive needed a custom interface [...]

Over the past months at work I have been taking a consumer mobile webcam (robot) and converting it to custom interactive experience. Over the next couple of weeks I will be talking about some of the finer point of taking an off-the-shelf WowWee Rovio (which comes with some fine built-in features) and transforming it into [...]

I was recently putting together a test plan for some interactives that we are deploying in the next couple of months. As I was putting the pieces together I was realizing that software testing is very similar to something I had previously done, writing educational goals for children with disabilities. I guess I have a [...]

I and fellow Iona Group developer, Mark Tovey, had the chance to present a basics of social media for the Morton, IL Economic Development Council’s LEAP (Local Education, Affordable Price) session.
Edc Leap Social Media

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Social networking on the web is just an extension of social networking in person. You are connecting with [...]

For good or for bad the television experience, at some point, involves plopping down on the couch, turning on the television and flipping. Having to not make a decision of what to watch before getting a 3 second preview. In what I hope will be a new emerging media delivery model, streaming internet video does [...]

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The difference between setting up Drupal Services for a Flex 3 project and for an Air project is a few slight modifications. Using my tutorial for connecting a Flex project with Services and making the changes below will get Air connected with Drupal Services.

You will need to create an Air project instead of a Flex [...]

With some of the recent changes to the Services module in Drupal and without a great Flex integration example I was pressed to work my way through putting the pieces together. There are some good starter examples but I hope to take this start to finish including the use of api keys and session ids [...]