FlatTurtle Blog
20 July 2012
#iSoc12 FlatTurtle: final week Hello, I’ve been working these last three weeks on Flatturtle, together with Nik and Jens. We have three main components: controller for the infoscreen, controlbay and the infoscreen itself (TV). The infoscreen was as good as finished but still contained some bugs that were handled by Jens. The controlbay lays in a secure VPN network but is also a communication point for the controller that sends HTTP requests.
Read more ...14 July 2012
Hi faithful iRail blog readers. My name is Nik and I am working on the FlatTurtle project. In this post I will recap last week’s events on the project and share some of my experiences with #iSoc12. The project When the week started, we decided to move to a PHP framework called CodeIgniter. This was a bit of a challenge for Glenn and me because we were new to this framework and were pretty inexperienced with php.
Read more ...13 July 2012
](http://flatturtle.com/) You might have noticed, but I’m not one of those early birds. I really wish I was, but alas. This morning I got woken up by Christophe PJ, share holder en sole investor of FlatTurtle to thank Glenn, Nik, Jens, Miet, Pieter and myself for the amazing presentation and meeting we had yesterday. “I feel totally rejuvenated”, he said, “The spirit is high, the motivation grew, what an amazing team!
Read more ...8 July 2012
](http://flatturtle.com/) Since open data is becoming more and more popular we can start developing our own creative applications using that data. FlatTurtle does exactly that. It is a system that has a special turtle for each type of data. There is a turtle that likes train data, there is one that likes airplane data and there is a turtle that likes twitter. Combine all of these turtles together and you get a nice visualisation of that data.
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