Getting Started with Arduino and iOS Español | Deutsch | Français | Italiano | Português

To celebrate the release of my new video course Getting Started with Arduino and iOS, O'Reilly Media are offering 60% off when you buy it along with my book iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino.

60% off when you buy both the video and book together

It's the MAKE: Hardware Innovation Workshop this week, as well as Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend, and I'll be hanging around both talking about this and other things and well as doing some live demos. So come and talk to me if you see me, and you want to know more about connecting your iPhone to the open hardware world.

Location Enabled Sensors at Øredev Español | Deutsch | Français | Italiano | Português

Back in November last year I spoke at Øredev in Malmö, Sweden, about location enabled sensors, and the video of the talk has just been put up onto the web by the organisers.

Øredev - Location Enabled Sensors for iOS from Øredev 2011.

If you're interested in the topics discussed at Øredev, all the talks will eventually make it onto the website including another talk I did at the conference on visualisation which hasn't made it online quite yet.

Galileo wheeltrack Español | Deutsch | Français | Italiano | Português

Just stumbled across this video, on CrunchGear, of the Galileo wheeltrack demo'd at the Robobusiness 2008 conference which started today in Pittsburgh. It was cool enough that I just had to pass it along...

Hotel Mauna Kea Español | Deutsch | Français | Italiano | Português

This You Tube video (via Samwise) is currently going viral amoungst the astronomers who use the observatories on top of Mauna Kea. Starts off slow and instrumental, but wait for the vocals...

In other news... Español | Deutsch | Français | Italiano | Português

Along with the announcement of the demise of Yahoo Photos, it looks like the Flickr of video will in the end turn out to be Flickr after all...

Butterfield also confirmed that Flickr will “soon” allow users to upload videos in addition to photos. - Michael Arrington

Nobody, including me, seems to know what to make of this aside. What does it mean for You Tube for instance? Will it hurt or help the Flickr community which is, perhaps surprisingly, full of technically competent people. As a long time Flickr user I fear that with this, along with the closure of Yahoo Photos, Yahoo might have opened the flood gates for a second September that never ends...