At 9:34 AM -0400 2008/8/4, Dean Collins wrote:
This email is off topic. If it offends you then suck it J
But seriously, I know this will interest USA readers (unfortunately
for now primarily on the west coast only). How cool is this concept
<http://techshop.ws/index.html>http://techshop.ws/index.html
Cheers,
Dean
[snip]
So, I'll take a bit off-topic and then go on-topic:
I am a big fan of TechShop (I worked in the Bay Area before coming to
work for Digium) and in fact I arranged this video interview there
one or two months ago:
http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/05/01/techshop-a-community.html
Lots of great stuff going on there, and they're opening in a number
of different cities "real soon now." It's the cheapest thing going,
relatively speaking, and the community of people using the facility
is very much an "open-source" environment.
I tried talking them (management) into going with Asterisk as their
PBX, but Jim wanted to completely outsource those functions to local
DSL providers (which, based on probability and luck, are probably
Asterisk anyway.)
This is a great place for people to get involved in making physical
hardware that interacts with web and voice interfaces. When the
Portland OR TechShop opens, I'll probably do a session on "voice
control of your robot" or a similar topic since Asterisk is very
accessible to people building stuff that responds to external
stimuli. Asterisk plus the Lumenvox speech recognition platform (or
even just DTMF) is a quick and dirty way to get audio control into a
robotic platform that has multiple "channels" of listening for
commands. Asterisk is being used more as an application framework in
that case, but it's simple and there are lots of people pre-building
the methods and documents on how it's done (see Dave Troy's
DTMF-controlled Roomba or the oft-cited botanicalls.com site.)
JT
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