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Ubicomp 11 workshop
Keynote by Christopher Mustafa Kirwan Some other presentations: Our own presentation went very well! We knew the stuff, were lagom prepared and acted with confidence. Got great critique from Kirwan....
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Some Ubicomp presentations
Starting off strong with the SmileCounter system! By being encouraged to smile, this will eventually make you happier, even if the initial smiles are not natural. Funny! Japanese (of course ;)) The...
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Rush hour
Went downtown to see the city a bit more and decided to go to their equivalent of Bangkoks MBK: the Silk market building. Despite the name, there were not much silk and the harsh signs in the roof...
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Beijing Banquet
The second to last day of Ubicomp 2011 included a banquet. After the last session of presentations, we were taken in buses, comfortable coaches, to the lake by the Summer Palace. The driver was...
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….meanwhile, in Shenzhen.
I arrived in Shenzhen and had quite the difficulties finding the hotel, even though I followed the directions from a commenter on hotels.com. It is a very cheap hotel, only 130 RMB/night (the others...
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Tally-hooo Hong Kong!
I’m in Hong Kong now Some differences I noticed immediately: * People don’t look at me because I’m not Chinese * people (guys) wear shorts, that was rare in Beijing and Shenzhen * people know english;...
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Funky Chungking Mansions
I had heard that there are many guesthouses at the Chungking Mansions building in downtown HK. In fact, there are about 200 of them apparently (I read somewhere). Now, some of them are better than...
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Vantage viewpoint
So evening of my first stay in Apple guesthouse I went to see the HK skyline from Victoria peaks. You basically take the subway to Central, follow the signs (Beijing, Shenzhen and HK are all very good...
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Back in an old track
So, last time I was in China (for Ubicomp), I was supposed to hold a Contiki-tutorial in Shanghai afterwards but for different reasons it was postponed, or something. The Chinese organizers never...
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Verrrry, verrrry important persons
I got a quite nice hotel room :), 19th floor, Fuxuan hotel. Very mixed messages. The second day, Nov 2nd, was the beginning of the event with a grand opening and unveiling of some plaquette or sth. We,...
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Piggie parts
It was fun in the taxi on the way to the venue where we were to talk, FUDAN Uni. I felt quite ‘up’ by then, excited and positive. I felt like I kept noticing small details around me, as if I was very...
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Maglev magnificence
So, I’m staying a while in China after all the hard work is done. Today was the first day of my short stay without work so I started out by surfing the web for ideas on what to do and see. The first...
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Marriage Market
“Hello! Do you want a girlfriend?” a Chinese man asked me. He was around 60, not that many teeth left in his lower jaw, wore a jacket and an honest smile. The Marriage Market, or Wedding Market,...
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Brownian Motion aka Sleepless in Shanghai
The day after the Marriage Market I kept thinking of how different our cultures and societies are. And, how different China is from what I expected before I came. I expected something more….....
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Reaching New Heights
The last day of this visit I went to the central business district. Actually, I started at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, which has several IMAX, 3D etc cinemas to choose from. Only...
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Contiki debugging in Cooja
A while ago I co-held a Contiki bootcamp. My part consisted mainly of showing the Contiki serial shell, the network simulator Cooja, Mobility plugin for Cooja, and some debugging features. This post...
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Contiki for TI MSP430 Launchpad
Contiki port for Launchpad Contiki has for a long time had ports for several MSP430-based platforms, but the platforms were a bit expensive for the hobbyist (eg Sky or Z1 at ca 70-90$ each). The TI...
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Clock with retro display
HPDL-1414 clock After having ported Contiki to the Launchpad, I was eager on doing something with it. I built this simple clock with a vintage HPDL-1414 “smart four-character 16-segment alphanumeric”...
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Simple yet efficient wireless with Contiki
SimpleRDC This is a step forward in making wireless communication more easy and viable for extremely small systems. There already exist a number of protocols for low-power wireless. Most of them are...
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