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Ubuntu Home Hacks

Allison RandalShiftboard, Inc.

Rules

● Open Source● Open Hardware● Cheap● Real Virtual↔● Explore tech● Fun

Sarah

● Eureka's “Self Actuated Residential Automated Habitat”

● Home Automation● Hardware focus

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JeeNode (v6)

● Arduino (ATmega328p)● HopeRF (RFM12B, 433MHz)● Tiny● ~$20● 66 byte packets● Low-level● CC-BY

http://jeelabs.net

PandaBoard

● Dual-core ARM● Ubuntu 11.10● Polling model● Aggregate● Command● CC-BY-SA

http://pandaboard.org

jQuery Mobile

● Small form factor● Javascript + CSS● Dual MIT/GPLv2

http://jquerymobile.com

Hiding in Plain Sight

New Rules

● Mostly the same, but...● Less space● Less time● Increase budget, more options● New open hardware● Software focus● Ubuntu packages

Sam

● “Smart Apartment Monitor”● Smart Home● Extensive refactor (rewrite)● Pub-sub model● Neural/cloud

tempdtempd

lightdweatherd

aggregator

logd

PUBSUB

fand

client

speakd

heard

braind

TinkerForge

● Bricks● Bricklets● brickd● Language bindings

● temperature = brick_temp.get_temperature()

● 7 languages● CERN OHL● GPL, LGPL, Public Domain

http://tinkerforge.com

ØMQ

● “zero” message queue● Lightweight interface

● publisher.bind("tcp://10.0.3.36:5551")● subscriber.connect("tcp://10.0.3.36:5551")

● 23 languages● LGPLv3+

http://zeromq.org

PocketSphinx

● Voice recognition● Accuracy improved by

– Custom grammar● <command> = sam ( <coat> | <greet> | <fan> );

– Custom lexicon● THANKS TH AE NG K S

● 5 languages● BSD

Open Mary TTS

● Speech synthesis● HTTP interface

● http://10.0.3.1:59125/process?INPUT_TEXT=hello&INPUT_TYPE=TEXT&OUTPUT_TYPE=AUDIO&AUDIO=WAVE_FILE&LOCALE=en_US

● GPLv3/LGPLv3

http://mary.opendfki.de

Node.js

● Lightweight HTTP server● 42 lines● HTML/JSON● ØMQ bindings● MIT

http://nodejs.org

Beautiful Soup

● Web scraping● weather.gov● Siri?● BSD

http://crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

sam-next

Ninja Blocks

● March Kickstarter● 587 people, $102k● Beaglebone● Ubuntu 12.04● Ninja Cape● Sensor boards● OSHW, CC-BY-SA

http://ninjablocks.com/

Future Features

● Ubuntu menu/launcher● More commands● Office node● Juju charms● Reward

Thanks

● Andy Gelme (message-based architecture)● Pete Moore, Ninja Blocks (Ninja Cape, sensor

boards, pre-release docs)● Olaf Lüke, TinkerForge (licensing)

Get the Source

● http://lohutok.net/talks/homehacks● https://github.com/allisonrandal/sam-server● MIT (or any OSI license)

Questions?

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