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	<description>Ideas, rationale and development of Dan Lake's projects for the BA(hons) Digital Arts and Technology</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Its been a while!</title>
		<link>http://danlake.com/blog/archives/184</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230;its been a while since I last posted on here but a lot has happend to me in that time. I graduated from the University of Plymouth with a First in BA(hons) Digital art and Technology and have subsiquently moved back home and started a job in the web/software/design industry. My official job title is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website done</title>
		<link>http://danlake.com/blog/archives/177</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 12:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The BIGRedButton site is finished. The mobile downloads are available from http://www.big-red-button.co.uk/mobile from any internet enabled mobile device.


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		<title>Button done</title>
		<link>http://danlake.com/blog/archives/179</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 13:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By jove it works! Finally got my button working, standalone, and logging data into the database. Power was the major issue with the button as I needed something that gave out over 5v and 600mA that was portable enough. The answer came from an old digital camera battery which gave out the same kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet another schematic&#8230;last one!</title>
		<link>http://danlake.com/blog/archives/175</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After many different ways of tackling this project&#8230;I have settled on a final schematic. This is how it works:



Both the mobile J2ME apps. and the physical button device send SMS messages to an AQL account which outputs the data as HTTP post to PHP scripts on my server. This then checks the existing keywords, creates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update</title>
		<link>http://danlake.com/blog/archives/174</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t had much time to work on the project this last week as my thesis was handed in yesterday but I&#8217;ve done some initial testing with the module&#8230;managed to get it to power up using code rather than the provided &#8216;on&#8217; switch and then send a SMS message to my phone and power back down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kit</title>
		<link>http://danlake.com/blog/archives/173</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok so I finally have all the all the bits I need for my project. In a blue peter stylee&#8230;To make a Big Red Button you will need:
An Arduino Decimilia board
A Libelium GPRS/GPS board for arduino
A GSM antenna with a MMCX connector 
An Orange pay-as-you-go sim card (with free SMS)
10m of standard multicore electrical wire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got a button!</title>
		<link>http://danlake.com/blog/archives/171</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally found the button I want! I spotted this button on the side of a bin lorry of all places&#8230;I found out, via the wonder of google, the make of the buttons they use on said bin lorries and then through the wonder of ebay, found this particular button for £20 inc. postage&#8230;billy bargain! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Module is here</title>
		<link>http://danlake.com/blog/archives/169</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I recieved my GPRS module&#8230;had to wait over the easter break to get my hands on it&#8230;but I can finally start playing with it. I&#8217;ve been reading some documents on how to work the thing&#8230;apparently is uses specific &#8220;AT commands&#8221; to perform the various tasks. There isn&#8217;t much documentation on it or how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UrbanXML</title>
		<link>http://danlake.com/blog/archives/182</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[UrbanXML was one of my first references for this project. Run by Wilfried Hou Je Bek, its aim is to release publicly derived data as a machine readable resource. In a blog entry on his website socialfiction.org, Hou Je Bek argues that
&#8220;&#8230;all data collected in/about public space should be made freely available in machine-readable open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Red Button progress</title>
		<link>http://danlake.com/blog/archives/164</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Its been a while&#8230;but a lot has happened. Few the last few weeks I&#8217;ve sorted web space for the site (big-red-button.co.uk - nothing is there just yet!) and I&#8217;ve got a prototype mobile version of the button working with the sms service and the database on my server. I&#8217;m pleased with the progress but there [...]]]></description>
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