Category: Hacks
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Relaying push notifications to your own API
We recently made a campaign for Loka mineral water, where users together reveal the new flavors. This is done by using Snapchat. We send users snaps containing puzzle pieces, and when they make a screen grab of a specific piece – we put that piece in the puzzle on the website. Because of legal reasons…
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SXSW lineup helper
We’re going to Austin again in March, for SXSW. It’s beyond great when it comes to live music. And tacos. But their official schedule is impossible to use due to the shear amount of gigs. Two years ago we created a little tool for ourselves and our friends called LASTSX.WS which mashed the lineup with…
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Place-a-pet, your animal shelter placeholder image service.
We’ve been using Placekitten.com for some time, and really love it. This service has two major flaws however: a) who are these cats? And do I really care? b) dogs are also nice. It doesn’t have dogs. The day before christmas, two years ago, we made a WordPress plugin which replaces the standard WordPress 404…
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What WP plugins does a site use? Our tool have the answer!
We at Earth People have a bunch of WordPress plugins that we have developed over the years. Some of them are even pretty usable! That’s why whenever we hear about a new WordPress site being released here in Sweden, we eagerly try to find out if any of our plugins are being used. Previously that…
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More node.js game action
This small game idea felt like fun – there is a man walking at the bottom of your browser window. Adjust the size of the browser window to make the man walk into the green area, i.e. live on. Try the game here: http://nodelab.earthpeople.se:1112 The man walks faster and faster and more green doors appear. To…
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Quiz buttons in node.js
For our recent fall party we made a music quiz, and if you’re quizzin you gotta have some buttonpressin. We looked for quiz buttons at teknikmagasinet, surprisingly we didn’t find anything. So www what do you have to offer? Nothing? Well ok, let’s build some buttons in node.js. Real time web! 5 teams, connected to…
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Web audio music game
After we did the rhythm experiment at Music Hackday we fooled around a bit more with the web audio synthesizer. It’s pretty amazing that they got a built in synth in Chrome, and if you got some knowledge of synthesizers the different audio experiments out there (googles own minimoog for example) actually seems pretty straight forward,…
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using social media as a cms
We recently launched andtherev.com, a new kind of bike shop/factory on Södermalm in Stockholm. The client wanted website users to be able to participate on the site, so instead of using a CMS to fill the grid with content we used Twitter and Instagram. Each page on the site contains a mix from Instagram and Twitter. The…
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beer hacking
today it’s ready: our own brew that puts “real” microbreweries to shame. this is a mere 12 bottles of what we hope is a fairly hoppy american pale ale. making it was easy. 2 pots and 2 hours. and a kit from köksbryggeriet.
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How we created an API to our coffee machine and how we abused the 418 I’m a teapot
We needed(?) a REST API to our coffee machine. So I put a Twine next to it, and made it call back over HTTP to a webhook on one of our servers. This webhook logs all the temperature changes, and now anyone can query the dataset via our REST API. It just returns if the coffee…
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Our #musichackday hack – Stealing Feeling!
UPDATE: We actually won an iPad Mini courtesy of Echonest for the hack! Very encouraging! Me, Fredrik and Adrian attended the Music Hackday in Stockholm, and made a little something. In short: 1. Steal the feeling from someone who’s got more of it than you. 2. Apply it to your music. It’s based around a 16…
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Almost really there . com
People attending conferences tend to tweet everything they hear a speaker say. We made a little service for you, and we call it almostreallythere.com. Now you can annoy your followers too. From the comfort of your own couch.