FlatTurtle Blog
9 September 2012
AB partners with MIVB to promote public transportation. Next up, FlatTurtle?
20 July 2012
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. This means that the controlbay is the weak link in terms of security so we have to ensure unauthorized access is prevented. This task was given to Nik who handled this quite well. He provided a restful API where devices could authorize by providing a pin code that gives them access through an access token. There’s also made a distinction between mobile and dedicated devices so that we could release an application that gives people the chance to control the screen with their own phone while ensuring that it doesn’t interfere with dedicated usage.
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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.
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. After two days we finished porting the previous project to the CodeIgniter project, after that we started working on the back-end and started thinking about the possibilities with the interface.
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