tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90888242024-03-18T13:33:26.168+10:30Daniel O'ConnorDaniel's collected open source and open data musings as a web developer, project manager and architect in Adelaide.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger991125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-41104325080961718542023-02-05T21:46:00.002+10:302023-02-05T21:46:33.416+10:30My Smart Home Bluetooth Scale I bought from Aldi wants to revoke my right to protest<p> </p><p>Nice try, clause 4.2.2.1 (6)! </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwiFOjkPzBhtjUBvqW7bPUsYdmfGyBCgdxI4vXqgYpY0BTQ6afn1LVDWxd1LjLINaWfhu1Me9uNm-qS5k2hr8QGp1Ll1_i0Xrd8bbJfNjDCdLABOYCQE8__4jKLOVJDgRF4pKNCTqZTIyGkxM8hlpd9J9IqQSCTlnzWX1bcOPDU_YZm-dYT1E" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="975" data-original-width="450" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwiFOjkPzBhtjUBvqW7bPUsYdmfGyBCgdxI4vXqgYpY0BTQ6afn1LVDWxd1LjLINaWfhu1Me9uNm-qS5k2hr8QGp1Ll1_i0Xrd8bbJfNjDCdLABOYCQE8__4jKLOVJDgRF4pKNCTqZTIyGkxM8hlpd9J9IqQSCTlnzWX1bcOPDU_YZm-dYT1E" width="111" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-62111317979143984232022-12-11T13:32:00.002+10:302022-12-11T13:43:45.384+10:30Home Assistant with Feedreader for Google Alerts (monitor a share), Planning Alerts (new developments in your area), Open Australia (what your local member says and does)RSS is a really powerful tool. Google Alerts allows you to monitor for news and new results, and importantly output to an RSS feed.<div><br /></div><div>Here I'm picking an Adelaide company I quite like; to monitor few news via their stock ticker:<br /><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijD9OsCWsCfr9PUl_py8suvEk3Wc7_ZKB0VSPdHLIVtzfUO34uXvb6UhwVFCSR9stz0reX3y5gwV-JCQm8OxaIkVJhPVCx-0zp6J8w98Ugi4KjZs9Rhd-5TLfDJ9ogq3Q0PGInpApOmaFF3rKByP3KvcPTzGA2Ub54dbasExz1JLrtvhakfe8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1225" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijD9OsCWsCfr9PUl_py8suvEk3Wc7_ZKB0VSPdHLIVtzfUO34uXvb6UhwVFCSR9stz0reX3y5gwV-JCQm8OxaIkVJhPVCx-0zp6J8w98Ugi4KjZs9Rhd-5TLfDJ9ogq3Q0PGInpApOmaFF3rKByP3KvcPTzGA2Ub54dbasExz1JLrtvhakfe8" width="320" /></a></div></div></div><br /><div>Through HomeAssistant, you simply want to enable that RSS feed via the <a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/feedreader/">feedreader</a> component.</div><div><br /></div><div>Very quickly, you've suddenly got a push notifications:</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWVGPpnG7X0t3AHIMFdfn_fKqgohSpEtMXDOZPGwHVvBnmAW2dZvAdm5mk_U1nCcP3CTmoMvYfbCGZz_VPuI-jmEDS6oO38UY6UGypbX_cGg4p-yPh535vqoYoHCzbrx7Gb3aSU6MDu2GpEc1Y-LwrWBYWOc-cjp2-v_cqolvFOBpJ18lou30" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="1071" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWVGPpnG7X0t3AHIMFdfn_fKqgohSpEtMXDOZPGwHVvBnmAW2dZvAdm5mk_U1nCcP3CTmoMvYfbCGZz_VPuI-jmEDS6oO38UY6UGypbX_cGg4p-yPh535vqoYoHCzbrx7Gb3aSU6MDu2GpEc1Y-LwrWBYWOc-cjp2-v_cqolvFOBpJ18lou30" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>This opens up a huge range of possibilities. Want to have your automation platform let you know when your <a href="https://www.openaustralia.org.au/search/?s=cycling&pid=10874">local representative talks about cycling infrastructure?</a></div><div>What about automatically discovering your neighbour is going to knock down your fence via <a href="https://www.planningalerts.org.au/api/howto">planning applications in your area</a>?</div><div><br /><br /></div><div><span> </span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-17180238133779025092020-08-14T19:29:00.004+09:302020-08-14T19:34:14.921+09:30Configuring Wifi for a Samsung Powerbot without the Remote<p>I bought a Powerbot vacuum a month or two ago, minus the power pack and remote.</p><p>I figured it would be straightforward, but ended up spending a lot of time tracking down an SLPS-250FFOT charger, then finally the AU adapter for it.</p><p>Only today did I manage to plug in my robot vacuum and... </p><p><br /></p><p>Immediately failed to install the SmartThings app on my Samsung A11. What the actual fuck. How is your legacy SmartThings classic app supported on this phone, but your rewrite isnt?</p><p>I installed the classic app, started and...</p><p><i>Error downloading countries list.</i></p><p>Why. What server did you kill off in June 2020 that you shouldnt have?</p><p>After a bunch of googling and an angry review later, I found my old S7 and installed the SmartThings app, as my battery dwindled rapidly.</p><p>Setup new device, vacuum, and.... wait what. Press the <a href="https://www.samsung.com/au/support/home-appliances/powerbot-wifi-faq/">
CLOCK button on the remote</a> to put it into AP mode, so I can connect wifi?</p><p>I didnt get a remote. A replacement is $75AUD. My bargain bot is turning into a nightmare.</p><p>One forum poster suggested they got past this step, but not how.</p><p>It turns out if you switch it off with the emergency switch, and it has no wifi, it is open to configuration.</p><p>Oh thank god.</p><p>So now, with the help of a party hat and homeassistant, I have a robot vacuum that is cleaning my house when I leave for the pub.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-66917664832681769352018-05-24T20:01:00.001+09:302018-05-24T20:01:12.018+09:30Paywave/mobile payments for Chuggers<p dir="ltr">I dont like high pressure fake charity collectors; but a chap with a can collecting for something like MS; I trust a lot more - no getting my credit card details; if I say no; they wander on.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Around Adelaide there is a particularly entertaining lady who has a very big McCaw with her - her success rate must be fairly good.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Most of the time though these days; I have to say I have no spare change, only card.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So, dear lazyweb; can someone please make a QR code or similar "open url" kit; letting someone with a smart phone tip - be it through an app store like subscription; a one click donate with the web payments API; or the charity equivalent of a kickstarter.</p>
<p dir="ltr">What I want as a donator:<br>
- Mutually shared identity. Who am I giving my $ to, and do they have a scumbag rating?<br>
- No spam. My local animal shelter spends a lot on print/mailouts to prompt recurring donation. If I can tell them not to spend $5 on media but on their cause; thats better for all<br>
- kickstarter like updates; *if* I opt in to a specific project. </p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-25465040769358809092017-08-25T17:39:00.001+09:302017-08-25T17:39:53.930+09:30Wanted: Owntracks clients as easy as Slack<p dir="ltr">Right now its tricky for groups of cyclists to coordinate. It's very easy to get split, and hard to meet a group mid ride. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Owntracks solves a lot of this; but setting up your own mqtt broker is tricky. Some hosted options exist, but then configuring is tricky for non tech users - remote config/config import helps alot; but its not perfect.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, I have multiple groups I want to share my location with for different purposes.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I really wish the owntracks clients were as easy as the slack mobile clients - easy team swapping, easy signin.<br>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-5054498614642119502016-06-11T18:04:00.001+09:302016-06-11T18:04:59.561+09:30Strava game idea: CTF<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Foursquare made me think about this, with its checkins and mayorships - it's basically just CTF, but an individual game.<div>
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At the same time as that is happening, Strava is posting challenges; people are <a href="http://www.everesting.cc/">everesting</a>, and groups naturally form around the sport.</div>
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So why not use the strava API to detect <i>time spent since someone climbed a particular hill</i>, and give the score as time + elevation * number of people who climbed it on your 'team'.</div>
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Now if only I wasn't riding so much that I could implement a prototype :(</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-65790323279345293102015-11-10T13:42:00.000+10:302015-11-10T13:42:18.710+10:30Getfridged implementation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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That <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/app-tells-you-when-food-fridge-go-bad.html">took a while</a>!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-48790324214322446122015-11-05T11:17:00.001+10:302015-11-05T11:17:14.182+10:30A wonderful insight into one of the creators of Bojack Horseman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-82051764748592509162015-08-08T20:32:00.001+09:302015-08-08T20:32:57.339+09:30Tips for switching between BPM's?<div class="md">
<p>I have been trying to wrap my head around good ways to do this. I play dance floor music: Drum and bass, glitch hop, call it "EDM" If you have to :P. Generally i Am floating around 87 - 90 bpm: So for example I would like to switch into a 115 or 140 track from that. Anyone have good tips other than transitioning two ambient parts together? That generally doesn't work well with the genres I am playing as there is always some sort of beat going.</p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-7578566780158145632015-04-24T21:50:00.002+09:302015-04-24T21:50:54.925+09:30Well, that was a hell of a birthday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li>Doctor tells me by SMS I have a good chance of getting cirrhosis because of my genetics.</li>
<li>Venue cancels on me the day before; after having waited a full extra fortnight due to availability.</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-32659109600780245322015-03-26T09:22:00.001+10:302015-03-26T09:22:49.698+10:30Internet users urged to go dark on metadata<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>http://ift.tt/1FEcjZt<br/><br /><br/><br />Submitted March 25, 2015 at 02:31PM by k-h http://ift.tt/1Nenuah</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-59667696120640126402015-03-22T15:30:00.000+10:302015-03-22T17:42:19.259+10:30Actual home automation: building the helpful dumb house<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Robots aren't anywhere close to being able to automate the annoying aspects of our lives.<br />
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I've gotten another Raspberry Pi, and the first one is working well with Oscar - other projects like TheThingSystem and Ninjablocks have falled by the wayside a little.<br />
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The only things I've got that I can feasibly automate include an automated cat feeder; or maybe an outdoor vertical garden.<br />
Neither is really solving a proper life problem - not the same way that watering timers do.<br />
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After thinking about it for a while, the issue isn't making the full leap to automation. A modern flushing toilet is an incredible piece of automation - gone is the requirement to deal with waste daily, and when linked to a modern sewage system; the benefits to health, labour and much more are a very good trade-off.<br />
All of this is reduced to a simple mechanical button and a charge from your council.<br />
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Building collaborative agents that can <i>reason</i> about the best rules to apply in the best situations is a very hard problem. Simple triggers like "motion detected in room X" firing "switch on light" need contexts and bounds: there's no point switching on a light if it is daylight; or put better; the ambient light provides a suitable visibility.<br />
Dealing with multiple actors at once and building models of their "comfort" is way, way beyond what we can do - the sensors we have and means to deal with their input are far far to limited.<br />
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Maybe this isn't such a bad thing. Many people have recently ridiculed light switch apps on phones - a simple mechanical trigger coupled with a human solves the room lighting problem in a residential house really well.<br />
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So by that token, <i>what can we do with more limited sensors, automated schedules and basic rules that can be reduced to a user hitting a button; or not?</i><br />
I think the answer goes back to Oscar and TODO list systems like Trello - higher level decision making is almost always going to require a person; and the decision making should be for difficult or relevant tasks.<br />
Trello and others solve the <i>communication amongst a group of humans </i>problem really well - it ends up being a really rough service bus.<br />
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What can we do to take advantage of that?<br />
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Observation 1: The federal government is really stuffing up the South Australian economy, with doubt around renewable energy projects, car manufacturing support ending, defence projects being on-again, off-again.<br />
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Observation 2: A lot of skilled labour is looking for new opportunities, through things like Airtasker or Gumtree. Many of these folks aren't 100% tech saavy, but are tech saavy enough. They aren't going to earn a living, but they are going to be able to take small opportunities. Provided that doesn't inflict an opportunity cost on them (being unable to find full time work because they are too busy chasing small scale work).<br />
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Observation 3: Service provider hubs are cropping up like wildflowers. The next evolutionary steps for a lot of them are going to be APIs - be it internal APIs for mobile apps or public APIs. Uber has forced all of the taxi companies in South Australia to compete with apps - they aren't pretty, but they are an evolutionary step.<br />
In the Philippines, the taxi based culture is very prevalent - aggregators have sprung up with a few major 'platforms' allocating work across companies.<br />
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Google Now is the best implementation so far of 'Helpful Agent' that I've seen, recognizing when there is travel happening and prompting with directions, food, etc.<br />
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We can surely take the google now approach to sensing when something is happening; and prompting a user for decisions. The candidates should be recurring.<br />
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To that end I think my next project is going to be "Raspberry Pi that polls users for feedback constantly".<br />
The idea for anyone who has flown through Singapore's Changi airport is pretty familiar - <i>How would you rate the cleanliness of this room</i>?<i> Poor, OK, Great?</i> on a touch screen.<br />
Combine that with an agent that offers to post a job to Airtasker for a one-off clean, and you are really onto something.<br />
Apps like http://www.moodpanda.com/ exist, as do a lot of fitness apps (Google health, Up, etc); even for your dog (Whistle; which I have found to be very effective) - people have done a lot of data collection in the past.<br />
Automating that and focusing on the problem areas in your home is going to create a much smarter sensor. You don't need to build an entire AI to understand a model of the real world if you optimize the questions correctly.<br />
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This will not get us smart houses, but potentially <i>helpful dumb houses</i>. I think that's a pretty worthy goal.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-77347701435966166772015-03-17T17:44:00.001+10:302015-03-17T17:44:31.430+10:30Mosquitto 1.4 has arrived with Websockets!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-49344213703522870032015-02-01T16:46:00.000+10:302015-02-01T16:46:12.454+10:30I pretty much killed my dog on Christmas Eve<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I pretty much killed my dog. She was sick, but it doesn't abate the responsibility I feel.<br />
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Shelley, or as I later found out, <a href="https://fasttrack.grv.org.au/dog/details/-52920">Ashiga's Pride</a>, was my greyhound.<br />
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She was shy, to the utmost degree - not many greyhounds are vocal, or particularly active. Shelley was all of this and much more: a couch potato to the Nth degree.<br />
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I only knew her for a short time, but her quiet unassuming nature meant that we had an instant bond.<br />
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Unlikely a lot of greyhounds, she had no prey instinct. She got along just fine with cats, other dogs and much more. The concept of being a Velcro Dog was very well understood - if we travelled, she tried to.<br />
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By the end, she was ill. The thing that makes me feel sick though is not the tunor that was slowly taking her life, but the display of trust she put on every step of her last day.<br />
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I knew something wasn't right, but had attributed it to a side effect of post operative medication. I was wrong. A trip to the vet turned into a one way ticket.<br />
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At every step, I took the <i>rational</i> choice - minimize pain, suffering, best long term outcome, minimal expense (no point spending thousands to give a dog 24 more hours of pain).<br />
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What I can get over is how disconnected I was. I never treated it like I was losing something, just a series of decisions with no consequences beyond the obvious.<br />
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I still can't reconcile how sick she was with the dog I know.<br />
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I feel so terribly responsible - she followed me from the start, and kept so calm even as I encouraged the vets to give her the life ending drugs. I watched her relax into the arms of death - it was not peaceful, Neither my partner nor I believed she was really dead - we kept patting a corpse, trying to ask it for forgiveness.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-91237532924691788832015-01-29T00:33:00.001+10:302015-01-29T00:33:46.228+10:30The horse raised by spheres<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-59336405479023599642014-11-30T23:52:00.001+10:302014-11-30T23:52:25.657+10:30More 3D printed buildings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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China might be already a fair way down this path, but it's good to see the execution of these kind of ideas spreading.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-37833884943570726282014-11-14T14:20:00.001+10:302014-11-14T14:20:12.548+10:30Interesting coverage of Monrovia, Ebola, and OpenStreetMap<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/11/daily-chart-8">That's one heck of a lot of detail</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-2738962230387825552014-11-11T10:30:00.000+10:302014-11-11T10:30:01.029+10:30Missing Maps, Ebola and Learn OSM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've spent a large amount of time over the past weeks mapping for Ebola. You can see some of my work, along with many others in <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/8.4707/-13.2121">Freetown</a>, <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/14.4457/-11.4563">Kayes</a> and more.<br />
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Often it has been an article of faith that the requesting organisations find mapping contributions useful; with feedback few and far between. For example, we saw some usage during <a href="http://wiki.osm.org/w/images/thumb/8/8e/Map_Poster_DSWD_Operations_Center.jpg/250px-Map_Poster_DSWD_Operations_Center.jpg">Typhoon Haiyan</a>, but it's hard to know if you are being truely effective.<br />
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This past fortnight, that doubt has been firmly put to bed. MSF has launched <a href="http://missingmaps.org/">Missing Maps</a>, proactively calling on the global community not to donate money, but to donate time.<br />
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Additionally, a thread on the <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2014-November/006533.html">HOTOSM mailing list</a> has nicely overlapped in demonstrating value - and of course, personal <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2014-November/006657.html">anecdotes</a> go a long way to making things relatable.<br />
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Given this renewed push from the people consuming open street map data in crisis situations, I began to wonder how I could turn my efforts from "dedicated mapper" to something more magnified.<br />
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I was lucky to have <a href="https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/commit/51db4fdec22d3a2f82fa2ad95cf3506b16978ff5">Nick Tailguy commit</a> to a refreshed <a href="http://learnosm.org/en/coordination/tasking-manager/">OSM Tasking manager guide</a> and talk to the mailing lists - I've since contributed a number of small edits that will hopefully go on to encourage new mappers to confidently contribute in times of need.<br />
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To really kick it up a notch, I'm considering outreach to <a href="https://openideo.com/challenge/fighting-ebola/ideas/the-enlist-universities-to-contribute-to-tasks-hotosm-org">universities in ebola impacted locations</a> - but I could really use the help of a dedicated few to push me further here; if the idea truely has value.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-42879383025327925502014-11-10T21:00:00.001+10:302014-11-10T21:18:11.882+10:30TIL: Sewing machines are just an early 3d printer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Darn you, internet. <a href="http://www.shoppingsquare.com.au/product.php?id=412296&n=3040">$25 for a sewing machine?</a> THIS PRICE POINT IS COMPELLING. Why, I could... uh... make... pants. Or even better, <i>my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqzpspZRbQ">sock budget has just been blown out of the water</a>.</i><br />
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Those two use cases are about one more practical, day to day use case than I can come up with for owning a 3D printer as an average person with no particular manufacturing skills, needs or ideas.<br />
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I look forward to the first 3D printed sewing machine, or fabric based 3D printer.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-43017623092581718412014-11-05T09:38:00.001+10:302014-11-05T09:38:59.332+10:30New project: CloCkWeRX/campbelltown<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><b>CloCkWeRX/campbelltown</b><br/><br />By CloCkWeRX <img src='http://ift.tt/1ynaqYY'/><br/><br /><br/><br />Campbelltown City Council Development Proposals<br/><br /><br/><br />November 5, 2014 at 9:30AM<br/><br />via GitHub http://ift.tt/1zuKUpF</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-25934639727401573802014-11-03T02:33:00.001+10:302014-11-03T02:33:28.264+10:30New project: CloCkWeRX/scenic_rim<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><b>CloCkWeRX/scenic_rim</b><br/><br />By CloCkWeRX <img src='http://ift.tt/1ynaqYY'/><br/><br /><br/><br />Scenic Rim Regional Council Development Applications<br/><br /><br/><br />November 3, 2014 at 1:45AM<br/><br />via GitHub http://ift.tt/1wUws9q</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-65112408958174458882014-11-03T00:58:00.003+10:302014-11-03T00:58:40.275+10:30New project: CloCkWeRX/greater_geelong<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><b>CloCkWeRX/greater_geelong</b><br/><br />By CloCkWeRX <img src='http://ift.tt/1ynaqYY'/><br/><br /><br/><br />City of Greater Geelong Development Applications<br/><br /><br/><br />November 3, 2014 at 12:28AM<br/><br />via GitHub http://ift.tt/1wUkLiV</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-68067902822799341972014-11-03T00:58:00.001+10:302014-11-03T00:58:36.902+10:30New project: CloCkWeRX/port_adelaide_enfield-1<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><b>CloCkWeRX/port_adelaide_enfield-1</b><br/><br />By CloCkWeRX <img src='http://ift.tt/1ynaqYY'/><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />November 3, 2014 at 12:23AM<br/><br />via GitHub http://ift.tt/10ewA5i</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-19279791764845320372014-10-21T17:27:00.001+10:302014-10-21T17:27:08.703+10:30So, no plans then?<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>http://ift.tt/10fQHkp<br/><br /><br/><br />Submitted October 21, 2014 at 01:43AM by richardwhereat http://ift.tt/1yd0enk</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088824.post-14950547651327246232014-10-08T04:09:00.001+10:302014-10-08T04:09:17.088+10:30New project: CloCkWeRX/osm-tasking-manager2<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><b>CloCkWeRX/osm-tasking-manager2</b><br/><br />By CloCkWeRX <img src='http://ift.tt/1ynaqYY'/><br/><br /><br/><br />2.0 version of the Tasking Manager<br/><br /><br/><br />October 8, 2014 at 3:57AM<br/><br />via GitHub http://ift.tt/1BNF3Z5</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0