Category: Random
Our geohash
In preparation for Software Freedom Day and the H4H stand here is the Geohash of the H4H address: kekhczvdbmvb. Geohashing converts a GPS location into a string. Latitude and longitude are expressed as two sequences of bits where each bit increases the precision by halving the interval a value falls into. For example, with latitude the first bit…
Read MoreSmart House Access Control – Breathing life into its electrons
Tuesday evening at the build we had lots of phun. I was nearing completion of the first prototype of Smart House Access Control (SHAC) and appreciated the assistance, debugging and moral support received from Andrew and Schalk to finish the first prototype. The “sophistication” gets described in a bit more detail in my video hereunder.…
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Last night at the build, Philip (with the help of Andrew) completed the first working prototype of SHAC – Smart House Access Control. This is a very sophisticated access control system which is connected to the cloud – sorry a bit lame, but really 🙂 SHAC uses an AWS instance for administrating the access control…
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