September 2007
Beginner to intermediate
432 pages
17h 48m
English
Content preview from Making Things Talk
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as most applications have at least rudimentary AppleScript
controls. They’ve also written TinkerProxy, a TCP-to-serial
proxy for Windows. See tinker.it/now/category/software/
for more details.
NADA
Sketchtools NADA is a proxy tool that takes in MIDI, serial
OSC, and other messages and sends them out to various
development environments like Flash, or Java. Originally
designed to work with the Phidgets line of hardware tools,
it can work with the MAKE Controller, MakingThings’
earlier Teleo tools, any MIDI device, and many others as
well. See www.sketchtools.com for more details.
Griffin Proxi
Griffin Proxi (Figure A-4, preceding page) is a tool that runs
various operating system tasks in Mac OS X in response
Mobile Phone Application Development
Mobile phone development is limited by a number of factors. To begin with, there are
many more phone operating systems than there are desktop operating systems. This
makes portability of software difficult. The learning curve for beginners is an order of
magnitude greater than what you’ve encountered here. In addition to that, access to
both the network and to many features of the phones is often limited by the mobile
service providers. For these reasons, I didn’t include mobile phones in this book, even
though they are an exciting platform for these kinds of applications.
If you’re interested in mobile phone application ...
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