Very nice. Imaging actually using your cell phone, when the networks are
off. Great utility. Good luck on your submission.

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>
> I'm happy to announce my project Fluid Nexus, an application that is
> primarily designed to enable activists and relief workers to send
> messages and data amongst themselves independent of a centralized
> cellular network. The idea is to provide a means of communication
> between people when the centralized network has been shut down, either
> by the government during a time of unrest, or by nature due to a
> massive disaster.  It uses Bluetooth to create short-term, short-range
> network connections between people, thus using the phones as part of a
> "sneaker-net".
>
> This was a particularly difficult project to write for the ADC given
> that Bluetooth is not supported in the emulator :-)  However, I wrote
> a basic Bluetooth simulator that fires off simulated events (at least
> those that are relevant for my application).  As well, I wrote a
> bridge that sits between the emulator and the host's Bluetooth
> adapter; the bridge transfers data between the two via TCP sockets, as
> others have done here for cameras.
>
> I've released the source code under GPLv3; it's really poorly
> documented right now, but that will hopefully change soon.
>
> Website: http://fluidnexus.net
> Project video: http://vimeo.com/899706
> Application: http://fluidnexus.net/media/code/FluidNexusAndroid.apk
> Source code (licensed under the GPLv3):
> http://fluidnexus.net/media/code/FluidNexusAndroid-0.01.tar.gz
> Subversion repository: https://svn.zeitkunst.org/viewvc/FluidNexusAndroid
>
> I'm excited to hear what people think!
>
> Good luck to everyone in the challenge, and especially those who, like
> me, just submitted their application :-)
>
> nick
> >
>


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Muthu Ramadoss.

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