FlatTurtle Blog
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.
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.
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.
Read more ...13 July 2012
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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! Can we make them work even more for us?!” But it didn’t end there; “be sure to take pictures, they have to be featured on our website! This is the community we are always talking about.”
Read more ...8 July 2012
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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.
