I’ve had a great deal of success with Cocoa UltraSMS lately. Unlike SMSLib (the java library I’ve been using) this library responds correctly to new message alerts from the phone. So access is immediate. The messages are stored in a MySQL database and are easily accessed with Processing (and any other Java), [...]

For a current project, I would like to be able to receive SMS messages, email messages, and voice messages in Processing (or other Java applications). So here’s the solution I’ve got. First of all, it is very easy to send an SMS message from one’s computer to a cell phone for free (e.g. [...]

Here are some initial 3D renderings for our Urban Echo. They are rough and will be cleaned as needed later. Part of the purpose of this exercise was to learn Google Sketchup and Google Earth. Both are now freely available for Mac and Windows. These tools are extremely useful tools for [...]

I've been looking for some weather data sources that don't require web scraping.  Here's what I have.

http://developer.yahoo.com/
http://www.weather.gov/ 
http://www.weatherbug.com/api/default.asp

It's good to note that there are a lot of really great sources of data at Yahoo's developer site.  This includes traffic data, a dcent map api, search functionality and more.  Google maps has a map api as [...]