Visjs developers are launching a kickstarter campaign!

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Felix Küppers

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Sep 6, 2015, 5:01:06 AM9/6/15
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Hi Everybody,

the developers from Visjs are doing a Kickstarter campaign for a new programmable bluetooth low-energy "intelligent house" device that they developed, which aims to be the most affordable solution on the market:

http://crownstone.rocks

The code to control the device is open source and hosted at github:

https://github.com/AlexDM0/crownstone.rocks

As you know, I use their Visjs graph visualization library for TiddlyMap and the Visjs team always helps me out with issues that are related to embedding graphs in TiddlyWiki! – In the very beginning they even changed all html/css ids into classes when I described my problem that I need to display multiple graphs at once in one wiki ;)

Without Visjs, the TiddlyMap plugin would not be as good as it is (or may not even exist), therefore I feel obliged to support their campaign by telling others about it who might find an interest in it ...and apart from that it is obviously a cool product!

-Felix

P.S. Picking up Mat's all time classic "Bigger community → better TiddlyWiki", I would say "Helping Visjs → Helps TiddlyMap → More graph drawing fun with TiddlyWiki" :)

Alex Hough

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Sep 6, 2015, 7:08:26 AM9/6/15
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Dear Felix,

Thanks for this, very interesting. Like many other people I am excited about the internet of things, Raspberry Pis and house (and garden) automation. 

I was looking at fitting power to a meeting room, and found this [1] - plugs (power, USB and Ethernet) are movable on a conduit. I liked the idea that broadband can be run though the mains circuit in a building, this system seems to capitalise on that in a cool way. The Crownstone system could benefit it it were integrated with Mainline.... if you have managed to persuade them to change a few CSS classes, how about prompting them to make a Mainline edition! :)

TW, TiddlyMap, Raspberry Pi and viz.js could interact with the internet of things without Crowstone, but the fact that it exists and is poiting towards the future is exciting

MVH [2]

Alex

[2] http://slangit.com/meaning/mvh - (i am copying Mat and Berte - we are suckers for "Scandi" style in the UK))

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Felix Küppers

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Sep 8, 2015, 7:24:49 AM9/8/15
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Hi Alex,

After having had a look at the mainline project, i feel like I'm living in stone age at my home :)
As you said the internet of things is slowly becoming reality and the next step is to make it affordable which I think the visjs people are up to with their Crownstone project.

What is nice is that they keep the code of many of their projects open (like the vis.js code I use for TiddlyMap) and build a community around it. It is beneficial for society when people can freely use company code for their projects and experiment with the code, but it is also a good strategy for companies themselves since it generates a lot of feedback.

-Felix
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