Category Archives: Code

A new way of looking at the GPS traces

Posted on 2012-12-11 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

After meeting Peter today, I decided to finally look at the alpha setting on his openframeworks application we use for lots of our work to explore a possible solution to getting a 3D printer to make a frequency map from … Continue reading →

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Jacquard loom GPS visualisation

Posted on 2012-08-31 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

We are getting increasingly attracted to older ways of visualising our GPS data – getting it out of the digital and especially screen realm and into tangible, haptic objects. Last week, after helping Martin print some data he is working … Continue reading →

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Adventures with the My Book World Edition (Whitelight) NAS harddrive

Posted on 2012-03-30 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Recently, I’ve been obsessing about the network here at home, now we have our own connection to the Internet and router (in the last flat, we shared this via an Ethernet cable that came from our neighbour’s flat). I wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Hooray for Distributed Version Control. Boo for Dropbox

Posted on 2011-12-16 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

I’ve been having problems with Dropbox lately, not updating all files. I still haven’t got to the bottom of that but last night I worked on a Python script down our studio and wanted to polish it up at home … Continue reading →

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Garmin Forerunner to GPX with heartrate as elevation (altitude)

Posted on 2011-10-27 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

It seems like I’ve been working on this for ages but I finally managed to get some kind of output from the Garmin Forerunner 301 that Miles Chalcraft kindly leant me. Grab GarminTools from here. Plug in the Forerunner and … Continue reading →

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