Maybe everybody knows already but the Dare to Dream Different Challange finalists have been announced! Unfortunatly I’m not one of them but still I find it very cool that people put so much and usefull effort into their .NET Micro Framework project.
Here is the list of the finalists (from the contest website)
Hobbyiests
Initial
Last Name
City
Country
A
Inochkin
Moscow
Russia
T
Fogg
Wallington
Australia
T
Scherrer
Novo Hamburgo
Brazil
R
Stropek
Traun
Austria
E
Percival
Hatfield
United Kingdom
Professionals:
Initial
Last Name
City
Country
G
Aasgaard
Bergen
Norway
D
Schaffer
Rockville, MD
United States of America
S
Vassiliev
Moscow
Russia
B
Fisher
Shiner, TX
United States of America
J
Ng
Seattle, WA
United States of America
I whish everybody the best of luck and congatulations!!
It’s been a long time since my last blog, I know, I have been consumed by my work and moving to my new appartment. But now I have some happy news, I submitted my video for the Dare To Dream Different Challange and I also want to share it with everybody.
The project is called DreamQuest. As you can see in the video it’s based on the hobby of geocaching. With Geocaching people hide objects or letters and then share the GPS location. The object or letter gives a clue what to do next.
You can imagine that hiding stuff in the middle of a city centre can be difficult and not very vandalism proof. Here comes DreamQuest to the rescue. DreamQuest is a mobile device with an internet connection and GPS reciever made to do one thing, run Quests. A Quest consists of information, questions, points-of-interest and a script to glue everything together.
You can design and share your own Quests. The script is made in a simple but powerfull Basic language. This script controls when items appear or hide. This can be done based on location, time, distance, answered questions, etc. etc. You are in full control!
I will release the sourcecode of the project and the basic interpeter as soon as possible!
For Round two of the Dare To Dream Different Challange I recieved a package from Microsoft. It includes a Device Solutions Tahoe II, two XBee Modules and a USB XBee Development board.
My first experiences with the Tahoe II board where very positive. USB debugging goes very fast and i’m impressed with the overall speed of the board. The board has less memory then the GHI boards I used to develop on. I don’t know what for implications this has.
I haven’t tried the XBee modules yet as I don’t need them in my application. When that’s finished I’ll try them. Together with the Bluetooth Modules I’ve ordered from SparkFun.
Finaly.. I submitted my idea to the Microsoft Dare To Dream Different Challenge! I couldn’t make my mind up if I should submit an idea and second what to submit.. But after a night of good sleep I submitted my idea and now I just have to wait until Januari 15th.. Exciting!
So have a great idea, that posibly could change the world? Don’t submit it, I want to make it to the next round.. No I’m joking, you should the better the more inspired other people will get from the projects giving the .NET Micro Framework more poplular.
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