Month: January 2015
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NFC + Krautmilen + Android
We needed to make something to measure timings during the running event Krautmilen. Equipment: Make a fugly Android app which could relay runners NFC keyring blips to a server API. Make a server API to handle the basic running logic (ie pair up names of runners with their start and finish times) The application is…
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Hooking up the voice intercom to Slack
The intercom from the street to our office was connected to an old GSM phone, and letting people in required us to pick up the phone and press the digit 5. Simple, sure, but it doesn’t feel like 2015. I had also been meaning to try the Twilio API for some time. Task: Connect the…
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Figurerunning a corgi
I like running, and figurerunning makes it even more fun. Don’t know what figurerunning is? Oh! Basically it’s just GPS tracking helping runners draw dicks on maps while running. What’s not to like? We made a tool helping runners being creative while planning their routes. In this proof of concept we let users draw figures which automatically snap to roads…
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How to make a wind chime door bell
Our doorbell was already connected to the Internet via an Arduino, but we couldn’t stand the sound it made. We needed a warmer sound, a sound that didn’t make us want to kill the doorbell users (mostly clients). Step 1: Buy an old Wind Chime, preferably with a coconut base (because awesome). Step 2: Pick up a…
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Integrera Swish i egna tjänster
I’ll write this in Swedish because it only applies to Swedes. Swish är ju en väldigt lyckad tjänst. Den har, liksom t.ex. Uber, förändrat ett beteende. Över 2 millioner svenskar använder appen. Självklart borde man göra något smart på Internet med detta, nu när nästan hela Sverige har appen i fickan. Dock har Swish inget publikt API,…
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Why doesn’t all my Instagram embeds in WordPress look the same?
Well, Instagram changed the response on their Oembed service sometime in December 2014. And WordPress caches all oembed lookups the first time they’re displayed. This means that all of your little blog posts which had an Instagram image or video (and more than 1 pageview) before December 2014 will look different than all your new posts.…