Sunday, April 21, 2013

Blurring the Lines: Digital Control of the Physical World

I am continually fascinated by the fact that we are gaining more and more control over our physical world via the digital realm.  The ability to code and hack hardware is providing a conduit for Makers to blur the lines between the screen and their surroundings.   This no-mans-land between physical and digital is ripe with opportunity and will dramatically affect many areas of our lives in the future.

This page is a testing ground for our forays into allowing others to digitally control our physical surroundings.  The setup utilized is composed of an Arduino and ethernet shield running a Webserver with a wireless Wansview IP camera feed embedded into the webpage.

Click the buttons below to control whatever actuator is hooked up today :)


Note: The video feed immediately below will only work if you are using Chrome or Firefox as your browser.  If you are using another browser scroll down to view another feed suited for your browser.  The Chrome and Firefox feed works better as it is optimized and operates much quicker.  Thank you to The Mad Hermit for the turnkey code to imbed video feeds.

Test Video Feed with Controls:

FOR CHROME AND FIREFOX
Live Feed

FOR BROWSERS OTHER THAN CHROME AND FIREFOX