In this tutorial, we’ll hook up an gesture sensor to a dizmo; we’re going to use an Arduino and WebSockets. Parts needed Sparkfun APDS-9660 Gesture Sensor Arduino Ethernet Level converter Breadboard Jumper cables Serial to USB Adaptor: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9716 Electrical hookup Our sensor, the Avago APDS-9960, offers ambient light and color (as clear, red, green, and […]
To kick off this multi-part series, we will build a basic to-do dizmo, using the dizmoElements library and later Backbone.js. Getting started Start by creating a new dizmo project for your todo list with $ grace new Name your project ‘Todo’, choose ‘dizmo’ as your default plugin and ‘joose’ as your skeleton. Change into the […]
Alain Leclerc von Bonin, our Head of Design, was invited to speak about Dynamic Storytelling at the last Internet Briefing in Zurich. In light of this event, we snapped up opportunity to chat with him afterwards. In a nutshell: What was the content of your talk? My talk was about how to improve the relevance of […]
Recreate the game ‘Snake’ In this tutorial, we will recreate the classic video game ‘Snake’, using dizmo. Snake consists of the following three components: the field, the snake and the direction. The field The field is a two dimensional array (18×18). A ‘1’ indicates a wall and ‘0’ indicates empty space. The actual field is […]
The dizmoElements library includes a new element. You can now use the List element to easily add ordered or unordered lists with scrollbars to your dizmos. Here is an example of a static list. Define the list and it’s content in index.html: <div id=”my-list” class=”list no-dizmo-drag” data-type=”dizmo-list”> <ul> <li>Take out trash</li> <li>Wash dishes</li> <li>Walk the […]
We are proud to announce that the Linux User and Developer Magazine has written a tutorial using dizmo. The tutorial is featured in print issue 152 and shows how to monitor the temperature of a Raspberry Pi CPU when it is set up as the brain for the Internet of Things at home or office. […]
As part of the Immohealthare conference, our CEO Matthias Aebi talked about ambient assisted living and “The Interface of Things – A comprehensive approach for personalized assistance systems.” After the presentation we asked him several questions about the event and his talk. What is the main purpose of the Immohealthcare conference and what role did you play? […]
You probably know the problem: You are working on a project and want to show it to your team members in order to get valued feedbacks and contributions but they are on the other side of town? Or your setup is not yet completed but you want to finish it at home on another device […]
You can use dizmo in the kitchen without fearing that water or dust (or maybe in this case flour) will wet or dirty the display on which it is running. Not only are the flush-mountable 40-finger touch monitors of Novis very slim with absolutely flat fronts and backs, but they are also protected against dust, […]
Did you find out how we built the interactive wall? Dizmo supports universal input method. That is, touch, mouse, trackpad and infrared pen. With the help of a projector, a Wii Controller and an infrared pen, we built an interactive wall. The Wii controller senses the motion with the infrared pen which then is sent […]
