Unconventional Everything (Mikamai)

I’ve never seen London. The capital of Western Europe. The Queen’s home. A shelter for geek people from all over the world. Home of the most advanced development.

AND HERE I COME!

The MIKAMAI developers’ team is joining RubyFoo, two days worth of thought provoking conference with a driving theme. Which sounds like: how to make Ruby talk your language! Some interesting interviews with some speakers are available here.

Maybe we’ll just stop in the Big City for a while =)

The last Hack Up consisted of a bunch of projects related to Altomic, Arduino and MMMAsoap. Take a look and get the code you need!

Alberto D’Ottavi and Gioia Feliziani are talking about it.

All the photos are on Flickr as usual.

The last Hack-Up consisted of the development of 3 new projects. The code is available here.

The Arduino keynote countdown is the right™ way to control the time for the speaker and the audience. It’s an analog time-meter with a gauge display that shows the remaining time for the speech, with three coloured leds that warns the speaker when time is about to finish. Made by Costantino, Giovanni, Cristian Maglie and Luca D’Angelo.

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MIKAMAI is proud to host the Hack-Up on January 18!

But what’s Hack-Up? And why would anybody be interested in it?

Hack-Up is an informal meeting for people sharing a common passion for technology, hacking devices and code.

It works like this: people propose different ideas and groups are self-assembled. Each group has to develop a project in 4 hours. All projects are published in an open wiki allowing anybody to use or implement them. No long term commitment, no remorse about leaving, no problem branching the project and building on it and making it your own. It’s that easy!

These are the projects we are going to focus on:

• Continue Project TAG from previous Hack-Up to create an easy way to put projects online.
• Video manipulation: flash applications to allow shared videos manipulation of virtual objects.
• Continue Arduino Jabber Knock from previos Hack-Up to get it routed via Pachoube.

Wow! I’m in! What should I do?

You may confirm your participation and join us on jan 18 at midday @Frida or at 2pm right here @MIKAMAI !

So, here we are…during the past few months I had to work hard (overnight obviously) to create a new platform I was dreaming about since last spring. It is a platform for video discussions, some kind of asynchronous video chat.

I started thinking about it when I first saw replies on Youtube. Don’t know what replies are on YT? When you watch a video you can reply quickly, directly on Youtube’s site by writing a text comment or by recording a short video directly with your webcam on your browser.

This feature is great, it allows users to quickly participate in discussions, by using an engaging platform like videos.
I decided to work on an application where video discussions wouldn’t be only a feature, but rather video discussions were the core of my idea. At the time I wasn’t aware of other similar projects.

After a few months of hard work altomic.com was born. Users can record their own videos and reply to videos sent by their contacts. The mos difficult part of this application is the video streaming technology, I had no previous experience with Flash and I had to learn a bit of it. It took me a few months, but finally I got it working.
This is just an alpha version of the application, there is still a lot of work to do on the technology side and on the community side, as I want to build a tiny and engaged community of users.

So, give it a try, visit altomic.com and go to the sign-up page. To get you in please use this invite code, NOOSFACTORY. And let me know what you think of this early preview! I will talk about it, the technology, the concept and many other things on the next upcoming posts.