Crumbs!

I’ve spent some more time working on my toggl physical interface:

• The timer now uses the more familiar mechanic of an old-fashioned punchclock
• the RFID reader is only reset when a card is read (speeds up reads)

The arduino reader unit handles the reading of tags. On punch-out, the reader prints the tag id, and the number of seconds between punch-in time and punch-out time. the toggl.py script reads this, and creates an entry for the time on toggl.

Still haven’t taken the time to make schematics just yet, but the connections are fairly straightforward.

The code is up over at github

Anyone have experience working with Teensy?

the builtin USB support would make it great for making physical controls for software systems.

With the rising popularity of these location-based services like foursquare and Latitude, I’ve been putting a lot of thought into what this kind of social network might look like when not visualised on a map.

I’d also been hearing a lot about Processing, and i figured this was a good way to give it a shot.

Here’s what i’ve come up with:

Oh, and its interactive, so you can drag the nodes around. they will “spring” back to the appropriate distance from the central node (“me”).

Eventually, i’d like to have it auto-fetch the latitude data. I’m not sure if it is worth the effort to do so before Google makes some kind of latitude api, so i may just wait that one out. It really needs some color. i’m thinking first, we grab the latitude user photos, then color code the edges based on some random criteria.