Half way through my 60 Days of Things

I'm now half way through my 60 Days of Things. 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.

So, looking back at what I've blogged: here are articles describing the development progress in NetMash:

• found four BLE USB dongles that work
• worked out how to broadcast URLs
• got a Raspberry Pi to broadcast a URL, logged in the NetMash app
• showed the 3D objects at those URLs in NetMash
• changed the colour of an LED through mark-space modulation
• set that colour from the 3D object in NetMash
• discovered the host IP using a nested loop
• constructed real URLs to broadcast from NetMash Pi servers
• discovered a possible solution to the Nexus BT/Wifi conflict
• showed three URLs in the app
• placed them dynamically in a 3D place
• found out how to read BLE adverts from Linux
• added a menu item to scan around, with jumping between place and object

I also wrote some more philosophical and background articles on the Object Network for AR and the IoT:

• explained what I was trying to achieve: an AR view of an IoT
• wrote my Manifesto for the IoT
• showed some simple Cyrus code for the IoT
• explained how Cyrus makes discovery easy
• gave my list of interesting technology trends 
• described the unique linked-up nature of the Object Net
• compared the CoAP and FOREST approaches
• had a look at alternative approaches to the Object Net
• described how the IoT should be open and local
• compared the usual event-action rules with the Object Net rules
• discussed why AR and the IoT are such a match
• had a go at yet another Monad explanation to compare with Cyrus
• described how people are first class in the Object Net
• gave some scenarios for linked Things from your house to the city and beyond
• introduced the Functional Observer model that is the foundation of the Object Net

And I showed off some hardware:

• my Raspberry Pi Christmas present
• some cheap remote-controlled kit to hack

In the next 30 days .. well, you'll just have to stay tuned!