MQTT is a machine-to-machine (M2M)/"Internet of Things" connectivity protocol. It was designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport. It is useful for connections with remote locations where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is at a premium. For example, it has been used in sensors communicating to a broker via satellite link, over occasional dial-up connections with healthcare providers, and in a range of home automation and small device scenarios. It is also ideal for mobile applications because of its small size, low power usage, minimised data packets, and efficient distribution of information to one or many receivers
Thingiverse is a place for you to share your digital designs with the world. We believe that just as computing shifted away from the mainframe into the personal computer that you use today, digital fabrication will share the same path. Infact, it is already happening: laser cutters, cnc machines, 3D printers, and even automated paper cutters are all getting cheaper by the day. These machines are useful for a huge variety of things, but you need to supply them with a digital design in order to get anything useful out of them. We're hoping that together we can create a community of people who create and share designs freely, so that all can benefit from them.
In honor of Disneyland’s 50th anniversary, we present 50 cool, obscure and simply odd things you probably didn’t know about the self-proclaimed Happiest Place on Earth
Preliminary reading
Arjun Appadurai (Ed). 1986. The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. Esp. chapters 1 and 2.
Alfred Gell. 1998. Art and Agency. Clarendon Press. Oxford.
Alfred Gell. 1999. The art of anthropology: essays and diagrams. Athlone. London. Esp. chapters 5 and 6.
Bruno Latour. 1993. We have never been modern. Harvard University Press. Cambridge. Mass.
Christopher Pinney and Nicholas Thomas (Ed). 2001. Beyond aesthetics: art and the technologies of enchantment. Berg. Oxford.
Using Thunderbird to Get Things Done In the past few months, I've been trying to apply some of the of 's to my own work habits. This article describes how I've been using a combination of 's labels and saved searches to facilitate handli
G. Ramirez-Gonzalez, M. Munoz-Organero, и C. Delgado-Kloos. Workshop on Designing the Internet of Things for Workplace Realities: Social and Cultural Aspects in Design and Organization (Social-IoT). Adjunct Proceedings. First International Conference on The Internet of Things, (2008)
G. Ramirez-Gonzalez, M. Muñoz-Organero, C. Delgado-Kloos, и \. Astaiza. Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services, стр. 32:1--32:2. ICST, Brussels, Belgium, Belgium, ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering), (2008)
G. Ramirez-Gonzalez, M. Organero, и C. Kloos. Learning to Live in the Knowledge Society, том 281 из IFIP The International Federation for Information Processing, Springer US, (2008)