So I shifted my priorities away from just a ‘boring’ sunrise lamp and am now working towards my very own vision of a powerful extensible ambient lighting system. The project has three major construction sites: a client application which lets the end-user control his light system; the RGB lamp hardware and its electronic circuitry; and last but not least, […]
Author: Jörn
I announced my ambition to build my very own wake-up lamp à la Philips back in February. I was pretty clueless regarding every aspect involved in such a project and it took me quite a while to figure things out. Thanks to the wisdoms of the internet though, it’s been a raging success so far. At […]
I’m glad to announce that from today, I’m offering NoteCraft completely free of charge to everyone. It’s been two successful years since it’s very first release in January 2011. I learned a lot, received great feedback and had a lot of fun creating NoteCraft. As I’m moving away from Bada though, I stopped improving NoteCraft and there is only […]
Last November, as a part of the curriculum of my study in Applied Computer Science, I conducted an introductory seminar about the OpenStack cloud. I had a lot of fun in exploring the cloud technology and put a lot of effort into my work. Thus, I want to make it available to everyone who is […]
Building my own Wake-up Light
During the Christmas holidays, I’ve seen a lot of deals for those new fancy wake-up lights from Philips. It promises a smooth awakening each morning with a simulated sunrise. I’d imagine it to be pretty awesome to have considering my painful Windows Phone alarm, which blasts bad music at me each morning at full volume. […]
The Nivo Slider jQuery plugin by Dev7studios is a free slideshow gallery. It provides lots of fancy transition animations such as fade-in, fade-out or cutting the image into moving slices. For my site, I just want a simple sliding animation, that moves the image from the left or right edge of the slideshow box into […]