Sounds interesting - has anyone tried watching the HTTP traffic during an update, using something like Fiddler? That may shed some light on how the content is structured.
David G. Smith PE PLS Synergist Technology Group, Inc. 570.280.6763 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Turner Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 9:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Geowanking] hacking an interactive globe (smart globe)? On Dec 30, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Michael Lenczner wrote: > http://www2.oregonscientific.com/shop/product.asp?cid=8&scid=105&pid=7 > 48 > > My sister's kids just got one of these for the holidays. It's an > interactive globe for education purposes that is "internet updateable" > via USB with new packages from the company for a fee. It would be > really neat to display other info on it. I haven't found any other > info online about people playing with it. Anybody know anything? This looks intriguing, and potential in the way that the RoboSapien was for hacking. However, I can easily imagine this "internet update" is an unique, binary format that would be difficult to repurpose. I recently saw the "Science on a Sphere" at NASA Goddard (http://sos.noaa.gov/). It's powered by essentially a movie clip of individual images in spherical projection, and controlled with a WiiMote - but no real interactivity. It seems possible to create a spherical projection using a upwards facing projector into a globe with some optics. The 3D equivalent of the long-time-in-coming touch-tables. Andrew _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
