Visualising project gannts

April 28, 2006
by djdunc
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Ask E.T.: Project Management Graphics (or Gantt Charts) – came across this forum from a newsletter email from brucemaudesign. A fantastic forum discussion thread still active after 4 years!! Lots of posts from large civil projects to novels to movies to F1 teams regarding how to visualise the many interdependencies

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please stand securely for talk off

April 27, 2006
by djdunc
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One Day, That Economy Ticket May Buy You a Place to Stand – New York Times Charles forwarded me this link after our recent workshop on Airport Retail. Inevitably part of the discussion ended up around the future of airline interiors and the kind of services that may become available.

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Intelligent Sensing Programme Meeting

April 26, 2006
by djdunc
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Intelligent Sensing Programme Intelligent Sensing Programme Meeting Venue: Riverside Room, IEE (IET), Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL To see meeting handouts and delegate list contact Duncan Wilson x52794

Programmers Notepad 2

April 26, 2006
by djdunc
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Programmer’s Notepad 2 – i started using PN when developing in NesC for Crossbow motes and have just come across this updated version – a great simple code editor for windows.

SunSPOTWorld – About Us, Who are we?

April 25, 2006
by djdunc
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Sun SPOT should be rolled out in May – looking forward to getting my hands on these. Here is an intro for information: Based on a 32 bit ARM CPU and an 11 channel 2.4GHz radio, Sun SPOT radically simplifies the process of developing wireless sensor and transducer applications. The

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WSN video of vineyard app

April 24, 2006
by djdunc
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Discovery Channel Video – on the use of motes for monitoring vineyard growing conditions – had seen the articles about this but good to see a video of the environment and the packaging they are using.

WSN blog

April 24, 2006
by djdunc
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WSN Update – News and Information About Zigbee & Wireless Mesh Sensor Networks a handy blog to review what is going on in the world of WSN – has a US focus.

flocks of motes

April 24, 2006
by djdunc
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Paper in IEEE Computer and course info for CSE 466: Software for Embedded Systems (Wi’06) a great demo of ad hoc networks and emergent behaviour. Each mote in the network sings a bird song. If another mote near by is also singing the same song it reinforces that tune. If

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how fast did i really go

April 21, 2006
by djdunc
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GpsActionReplay have been looking for this kind of GPS tool for a while – should have thought to look for an application made by / for windsurf speed sailors… Just need to download a .gpx xml file (i use easygps) containing data for a route and then load it into

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Building visions on R&D

April 19, 2006
by djdunc
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Chris Jofeh, Director, Ove Arup & Partners will be presenting on Drivers of Change to an audience at the R&D Society – all welcome – Tuesday 25 April 2006, 6.00pm http://www.rdsoc.org/06L4notice.html Chris is passionate about the role of engineers in dealing with the challenges posed by the consequences of human

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WSN application

April 13, 2006
by djdunc
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MoteWorks Wireless Sensor Network Platform has been launched by Crossbow – this should mean out the box configuration of wireless sensor networks (given the apps that ship with it and those that can be used as plugins…) Watch this space… will report more when I have installed and played with

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Neither working nor having fun

April 6, 2006
by djdunc
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Another thing blogs and open source software have in common is that they’re often made by people working at home. That may not seem surprising. But it should be. It’s the architectural equivalent of a home-made aircraft shooting down an F-18. Companies spend millions to build office buildings for a

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