On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:30 PM, John Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > 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 > > -- > > -- > John Todd > [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-256-428-6083 > Asterisk Open Source Community Director
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