Concluding my 60 Days of Things

I'm now nearly at the end of my 60 Days of Things. As I said when I was half-way: "I started this blog on the 14th of December last year, without intending to blog every day. But I happened to have something to say every day, and once I'd established that regularity, I decided to keep it up. I do have rather a lot to say about the Object Net, and my other blog is full of me saying it in long posts. This way I get to write shorter posts, yet more often."

It's been a lot of fun, doing the coding and hardware stuff and writing these posts. I almost never knew what I was going to write as I sat down every evening, but never once failed to find inspiration.

So here's another summary in two parts. First, what I achieved for NetMash:

• showed screenshots of my basic jumping-around AR view
• added "azimuth" - or panning - to the AR view
• thought about the more gentle AR positioning algorithm
• made a video of my smooth AR IoT demo
• discussed some improvements and enhancements I need to do next
• had some thoughts about the ways I'd use the Pi camera
• met a bunch of fellow geeks to talk about Pies

Rather more articles in the "general" category this time:

• gave my thoughts on the Nest and Google situation
• showed how I used Google Trends
• listed interesting conferences and meetups
• had some thoughts on the economics of LED bulbs
• listed the interesting IoT protocols
• pondered the ever-present security issues of the IoT, and some solutions
• gave my vision of a seamless 3D world built like Minecraft
• compared massive grids of Things to massively parallel computers
• projected forwards into the 3D IoT with 3D sensors, printers and screens
• enjoyed the magic of an AR fairy book with my family
• considered how to dim lights to warm in the Object Net
• thought about Monsanto and open and local farming
• got lost at work, and considered the IoT office
• imagined how moving beacons would help people and cars publish 
• compared the Object Net's domain-level FOREST approach to AtomPub
• decided that ThoughtWorks Retail could use all of this stuff
• finally got around to summarising the Object Network for you
• got excited about bidirectional CoAP
• reported on my involvement with basic UK Government Web Standards
• imagined a future where you could easily copy between adjacent machines

I also went on a short trip to Venice. and linked to some snaps.

I'm not sure if I'll continue the pleasant discipline of daily blogging, now that my 60 days are up, but I do hope to.

I'll certainly keep blogging on the Augmented Reality Internet of Things manifested by the Object Network.

I've only just started...