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This is the official repo for the CascadiaJS 2014 conference.
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"Webji II: The WebSocketing" by Randall A. Gordon #173

Closed randallagordon closed 9 years ago

randallagordon commented 10 years ago

"Webji II: The WebSocketing"

Randall A. Gordon randall@randallagordon.com

Many moons ago, when the Palm Pre came out, I made a silly little demo that used the Pre's accelerometer to control a virtual ouija board which I called Webji.

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Which was fun. But, I've always wanted to make a physical version of the board which is controlled by MAGIC! Which is to say, via a magnet being moved around by stepper motors underneath a CNC milled version of the ouija board.

It seems to me like CascadiaJS is the perfect reason to convert the server over to Node.js and call on some of my best friends—WebSockets and node-serialport—to make a JavaScript-powered talking board a reality!

The software is already ready to go...part of it is just in Ruby at the moment! I'll get that aspect taken care of pronto. Just need to buy some motors, rescue a nice, strong magnet from an old hard drive and start milling parts to take care of the hardware end of things.

hackygolucky commented 10 years ago

@randallagordon GO GO GO!

When you're ready for reimbursement, just email the receipts(can be photos if need be) and the email address we can refund you via PayPal to info@cascadiajs.com

We're going to have an email list for Makers that will probably have an email or two go out regarding logistics of setup and what we can do to help make this process better for you. Thanks!!!