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Just for backup reason a summary of my Twitter messages. It is always a nice way to reexperience the developments of a certain time period. For this reason my most important Twitter messages from January 2015 until March 2015.

Allgemein (General)

• RT ★ The Humane Representation of Thought: a trail map for the 21st century. (keynote at UIST and SPLASH, 1 hour)
• RT Left: Samsung SmartTV privacy policy, warning users not to discuss personal info in front of their TV Right: 1984
• You want to become the next Tamagotchi, then use heavily data analytics and our so well known smart devices
• RT @johnmaeda highlights the rising importance of design in the entrepreneurial ecosystem in his #DesignInTech Report
• RT Why We Need Free Digital Hardware Designs
• Nice reading: Advice for Early-Stage Hardware Startups #business #product #development
• Great blog for the #maker community: Prototype to Production Because #hardware is hard #product #design #engineering
• Nice list of #maker and tinker #books via @make
• Pretty useful: Tindie Biz - the open manufacturing platform for finding manufacturers & suppliers around the world
• fab.com is a market place for high-quality #DIY products and designer products #business #market #shop #online
• RT From Smart City —> Clever City - a manifesto (I love #5)
• openexplorer.com is an online open #knowlege platform for researcher and adventurer. Or just an inspiration for geo #stories #data
• Don*t know if I will need this one day: How To Cite Social Media In Research #goodtoknow

Generative Art:

• @shiffman algorithms about path manipulations | overview of recognition (gesture) approaches
• @Berenger_r @shiffman yeah that's very cool! nice resources and this research group
• @shiffman some math and geometry calculations eg. (delaunay&voronoi) | see also the old Flash Math Creativity books
• RT seems line rendering is a hot topic these days
• RT voronoi-based triangulation class for #openframeworks
• RT one for the CG - prodecural geometry generation tool
• RT Found another case of creative woodblock recycling. #bldigital
• RT Voxels of 1888
• RT thebookofshaders.com A gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo

Info Design and Data Visualization

• Google Trends is nice for some big data trend research or just for testing you text slogans
• Semager ist ein gutes Tool für das Aufspüren von Synonymen, Suchbegriffen und Assoziationen in der deutschen Sprache
• RT TimeLineCurator by @jofu_: build timelines from raw text, export to @knightlab's #TimelineJS
• RT SVG patterns for Data Visualization with #D3js
• Extract color palette from cam with @noflo: ... fun to hack with @Flowhub_io #flowbased
• RT Science’s Significant Stats Problem - Issue 4: The Unlikely - Nautilus
• RT A+ classic critique "Parable of Google Flu: Traps in #BigData Analysis" #statistics #analytics #designthinking
• NEW POST: Celebrating 5 years of Visualising Data
• RT My talk on urban data visualizations is online! Featuring projects with @SenseableCity, @uclab_potsdam, @bndktgrs
• @mahirmyavuz maybe services like this smartcitizen.me makes the transition easier?!
• openpaths.cc provides nice tools and data sets for geocoding #programming #mobile #locationbased #data #resource
• Nice map about transantlantic Internet #visualcontent #internet #infrastructure #map
• RT 3-D View of a Chart That Predicts...
• RT dear-data.com via @mahir_nyc
• RT Mario Klingemann (@quasimondo): "1053 Emojis ordered by Similarity" (because clustering)

 UX and Interaction Design:

• RT “Prototyping The Future” by @leesean
• Nice and important read: Questioning the “critical” in Speculative & Critical #Design #theory #society #article
• Free e-Book: Designing for the Internet of Things published by O'Reilly
• Research in #design: Interaction with cords and its related #gestures | paper #tangible
• Neue Gestaltungswerkzeuge für Informations und Interaktion #Design: Smelling #Data by Mark Lukas  -> @smellingdata
• Interesting: Is Motion-Capture-Based Biomechanical simulation valid for HCI Studies? Ergonomics for tablets and mobiles
• RT About all those inputs: need to update this again
• RT never been a better time to make software. #alltheinputs
• Nice case study report about zoom #gesture and its function in ui #design for multi-touch screens
• RT Wireframing a lot lately, I found this extremely helpful: goodui.org #ux #wireframe #prototype
• Interesting approach for #programming, designing and describing control sliders #ui #interaction #screen #design
• RT UX Project Checklist: The UX Design Process From A to Z #ux #uxchecklist via @sovesove
• Redesigning Codecademy's Learning Environment by the fabulous @andresiga
• Nice article about interface #design for elderly people. Especially for #mHealth apps it is a great resource
• RT UX: An exploration in Material Design by @abrodo
• Flat UI Free User Interface Kit for bootstrap and other UIs  #design #graphics #interface #screen #js #Bootstrap #ui

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

• If the position recognition works really sowell,then we have a new tool for freeform gestures smartmat.com
• Pencil - a stylus SDK based on Bluetooth for #iOS fiftythree.com/sdk #programming
• Great example why the #hacking culture is important for us. It can raises questions like art #tinder #Automation
• Ein paar sehr gute Ansätze sind dabei: Warum Hoodie? Ein Talk über #noBackend und offline-first von Gregor Marty...
• Best way of disturb #bigdata analytics is to produce noise: NSA Haiku Generator nsahaiku.net helps you #nsa #surveillance
• A science book that you read by playing interactive simulations. A tour de force by @cgingold. earthprimer.com

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

• Tutorials and introduction to Capacitive Sensing | bildr.org and the hardware
• RT Looks like Immersion figured out how to produce electrovibration tactile feedback on touch screens
• The material #Flexinol - muscle wire looks pretty interesting
• Y'all doing vision-based tracking need this new (clear) retroreflective spray (cc @kcimc @zachlieberman @atduskgreg
• Physically Based rendering in: sketchfab & playcanvas good times for designers 🙂

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

• Interesting article about #hand #tracking and image processing: The #Augmented Hand Series via @creativeapps #gesture
• Quick workflow for digitalize your handwriting | #Tutorial

Physical Computing

• RT Build #Arduino-based #IoT apps with #Temboo Conditions features #electronics
• RT mindplus.cc #arduino #nodebased programming
• cuwire - a developing alternative to the Arduino IDE - Brackets plugin for Arduino
• Robotic Artist Ken Rinaldo published his comprehensive guide: Interactive Electronics for Artists and Inventors
• Great introduction #tutoriales about connecting max/msp with #arduino link via a.weixler
• Tutorial: Connect #Arduino GSM/GPRS Shield to a #Mobile Network #IoT
• RT Cellular Connectivity Comes to Microcontrollers With The Spark Electron
• Facebook and its first open Hardware project: “6-pack”: the first open hardware modular switch
• $25 Flutter is a Wireless Arduino compatible Board with Up to 1 km Range | flutterwireless.com #IoT #arduino #open
• Rapid prototyping for #arduino #android machine2machine communication Blynk  server looks good,too
• RT The MIDIbit interface for LittleBits Synth Kit now has a website. Visit us at midibit.org
• @arduino Yun wireless PIR triggered camera trap. TY @adafruit 😊 Great student project
• RT ArduDroid: A Simple 2-Way Bluetooth-based Android Controller for Arduino RGB led strip
• RT Make an Arduino-powered thermal camera
• RT Decoding Morse Code with an Arduino and a Microphone
• RT Automating Etch-a-Sketch drawing toys with Arduino
• RT 6-Axis Robot-Arm 3D Printer Runs on Arduino, Slings Spiderwebs
• Automated book and scanner archive for your home? Really nice project link via @yellingBytes
• nice project for longer hiking trips (exploring nature): Unlimited SD Card Backup in the Field - Hard Drive Hack
• Nice afternoon hacking project: Turn Your Phone Into a DIY Projector
• READ this article from #arduino #blog : Circular Knitic and the power of doers in open source
• RT More advanced than the arduino cheatsheet! great efforts to the community Arduino basic connection
• Massive list of electronic circuits #arduino #learning #reference #schematic
• RT "@instructables Arduino MPPT Solar Charge Controller (Version 3.0) bit.ly/1AdZcut " @SolEpcc
• Great inspiration and also a nice contest: MAKE ENERGY: A US-MEXICO INNOVATION CHALLENGE

Digital Archives

• Interesting article: never trust a corporation to do a librarys job. link via @fkirschner #archive #google #internet
• wallabag.org is nice tool for saving and #archive your web research efforts #science #research #web_reference #indieweb

Mobile

• protocoder.org is nice rapid prototyping tool for mobile apps based on javascript #js #design #mobile #android #hacking
• Guides for creating #iOS certificates, provisioning profiles, App Id's and registering devices.

Wearable Technology

• Nice article about prototyping tools for wearables used by social body lab #mobile #wearabletech via @make #arduino
• Velostat is a nice material for creating your own #sensors and some more information

Digital Health, mHealth and Telemedicine:

• openbiomedical.org #opensource meets #medicine and #3dprinting technology --> BioMedical Technologies
• Another Open Prosthetics Project openprosthetics.org #medicine #engineering #technology #hardware #robotics
• RT 3D Printed #Prosthetics @GraceMandeville @openbionics @swarovski @Wearabletecshow #WTS2015
• Neugikeiten aus dem Bereich #biotech und #3dprinting mit Fokus auf #medical
• @GarthDB @thibault_imbert @johnlindquist We've now launched OpenAPS.org too. #OpenAPS @danamlewis
• RT Why is Health Care Tech still so bad? #HealthTech
• Interessanter Artikel: Heilen mit Bits und Bytes:#ehealth #mhealth #medtech #medicine #depression #digital #therapy
• Nice article about interface #design for elderly people. Especially for #mHealth apps it is a great resource
• RT Lifty is coming. Aid to recovery people with autism spectrum disorders. #Yii2 #PhaserJS #AngularJS #NodeJS #Lifty
• FDA regulation meets Apple Watch #mhealth #regulation link via @jensfranke #app #mobile

Bio Design and other Art stuff

• Another great research project on Human Plant Interfaces by the FoAM Lab: #bio #art #plants #nature #sensing
• My essay about @Biofabricate14 is up today on @ReadReform
• @Berenger_r @shiffman yeah that botany is very cool! nice resources and this research group
• #Research project on #nature and bees: OpenBeeResearch #Barcelona #BCN link via @mcanet
• RT beautiful works: the Mechanical Art Devices
• Robotic Artist Ken Rinaldo published his comprehensive guide: Interactive Electronics for Artists and Inventors

Game Developing:

• RT Really helpful, Game Programming Patterns
• RT Blobs in Games: Optimizing A* for grid maps
• RT Navigation mesh pathfinding #threejs #webgl #gamedev
• OPEN CALL FOR OUTDOOR VIDEOGAME IDEAS #design #game
• News: Unreal Engine 4 is now free-to-download for everyone via @gamasutra
• RT Phaser Coding Tips 8 - Motion Paths Tutorial and Editor
• RT PhaserLE is Released: A great new WYSIWYG Phaser Game Editor
• RT Just tried Tiled and I like it a lot! Create levels for any tile-ish games. It exports to JSON. And it's free!
• RT SpriteIlluminator - 2d dynamic lighting for you! #indiedev #cocos2d #spritekit

HTML & CSS

• Awesome!! @WalterStephanie: CSS Ruler, a little tool to better understand different #CSS units
• Tools for Webdesign without code: rukzuk.com and interactions.webflow.com

JavaScript

• RT Make lights emote + NodeBoats float. 'Javascript Robotics' now an early release #ebook.
• Realtime #video effects with #WebGL and #JS -> seriouslyjs.org | code link via @yellingBytes
• RT The Path to Parallel JavaScript - #exciting #js #parallelism
• RT Learn JS Data, with #d3js learnjsdata.com by @bocoup

Flash and Flex

• RT FPReachability "Library to check the status of the network and WiFi in iOS application." #ANE
• Flash AIR SDK Native Extension updated with iOS 64 bit support! in2ar.com/sdk.php #AR
• SAP - new particle system for #Starling. Github | Demo
• RT ApacheFlex 4.14.0 introduces support for Promises. Check it out!
• RT Adding support for MXML in Feathers: Thank you to @YETiCGI for sponsoring this exciting development.
• RT Awesome VIVID multimedia display by the team at @soapcreative - really shows off what you can do with Adobe AIR!

Decentralize Web

• wallabag.org is nice tool for saving and #archive your web research efforts #science #research #web_reference #indieweb
• sandstorm.io seems to be THE personal server for hackersAndTinker (even for #IoT apps).Hopefully it gets stable soon
• The UBOS project is a great answer of the #indieweb community for #raspberrypi user ubos.net (also for #IoT apps) #owncloud

Sonstiges / Other stuff:

• RT On fiver.com@fiverr you can buy 5* Starts rating on your Games or aplication.How is possible? @FlashDailyNet
• RT The extraordinary Mirror spider has reflective patches on its abdomen - composed of guanine crystals
• RT A clever way to show how ancient ruins looked like
• Can this development  in combination with this initiative mundraub.org provide a solution for free #food?