[CODE4LIB] Job: Education Specialist at Smithsonian Institution

2012-05-02 Thread jobs
Job Title:Education Specialist Agency:Smithsonian Institution Job Announcement Number:12R-JW-297722-DEU-NMAH SALARY RANGE: $62,467.00 to $81,204.00 / Per Year OPEN PERIOD: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 to Wednesday, May 09, 2012 SERIES GRADE: GS-1701-11 POSITION INFORMATION: Full-Time,

Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea

2012-05-02 Thread Edward Iglesias
These are all very good ideas. I'm partial to the Arduino solution myself but it got me thinking, does facilities already collect this information? A lot of systems have built in monitors that report to a central location. It might be possible there is a built in API you could just hijack and

Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea

2012-05-02 Thread Thomas Bennett
You might want to contact Dr. Ray Russell here at Appstate. Ray is in the Computer Science department here and has done work for NASA also. He has this obsession, oops I mean hobby, for collecting weather data. He has weather stations throughout the High Country ( western North Carolina )

Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea

2012-05-02 Thread Julia Bauder
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Maryann Kempthorne marya...@gmail.comwrote: Why not a cardigan checkout? Maryann We have had semi-serious conversations here about having lap blanket checkouts. Our fourth floor is prime quiet study space, but when it's below freezing outside--which is the

Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea

2012-05-02 Thread Ellen K. Wilson
Thanks to all of you for great suggestions! I'm definitely going to check out some of the tools you mentioned - I think it would be a fun side project to implement. On 5/1/2012 3:00 PM, Peter Murray wrote: Sounds like a neat idea. I wonder if you could get electrical engineering students to

Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea

2012-05-02 Thread Whitworth, Cliff
Thanks for starting this conversation Ellen! Lots of fun. I learned about wireless Arduino - http://www.glacialwanderer.com/hobbyrobotics/?p=291 (should go well with my NerdKit), And I think I'm 300,003 on the waiting list to get a Raspberry Pi. I love it! Thanks all, -Original

Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea

2012-05-02 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Edward Iglesias edwardigles...@gmail.comwrote: These are all very good ideas. I'm partial to the Arduino solution myself but it got me thinking, does facilities already collect this information? A lot of systems have built in monitors that report to a central

[CODE4LIB] Gadgeteers

2012-05-02 Thread Cindy Harper
I didn't know there were so many gadgeteers on this list. My latest item on my wishlist is this http://wimm.com/. Now, I'm not a smartphone user, because I'm always losing my cellphone, and I can't justify the cost of a data plan. And I've looked into a wearable notepad, but I think the

Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea

2012-05-02 Thread jstirnaman
I really like your idea, and we have this same problem. I'm wondering if Arduino might be a reasonable solution: http://arduino.cc/playground/Main/InterfacingWithHardware Jason - Reply message - From: Ellen K. Wilson ewil...@jaguar1.usouthal.edu To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject:

Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea

2012-05-02 Thread Genny Engel
The number of currently available cardigans could then be displayed along with the temperature gauges. Now you also have to interface this whole thing with the item status in the catalog, which will of course have to contain cardigan records. You could use NCIP to grab the status, but I'm not

Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea

2012-05-02 Thread stuart yeates
The catalog is also a good reference for how many books there are available fuel. Hopefully the records contain information on which are printed on clean-burning paper. cheers stuart On 03/05/12 10:32, Genny Engel wrote: The number of currently available cardigans could then be displayed