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Ambient Orb & Beacon Technical FAQ
Please read the FAQ describing
our technology and philosophy.
Ambient Orb & Beacon Web Developer's Kit
If you own an Orb or Beacon, have upgraded to a Premium account,
and wish to control the colors directly through our website,
you need to sign up for our Developer Channel. This
allows you to use our infrastructure to transmit your information
directly to your orb. Customers have used this feature
to illuminate key performance indicators such as web traffic,
call waiting queues, and inventory levels. Please note, you will need to write your own software to post data automatically to our servers—the Developer Channel simply listens for your command (for example, "flash red") and cannot perform any analysis on its own.
Ambient Orb & Beacon Hardware Developer's Kit
If you own an Orb or Beacon and wish to control it directly from
a PC serial port, you need our Hardware Developer's Kit. You may build your own (schematics are available for free on this page), or order one from us.
*While the demo software is Java, communication with the
serial port uses custom native code that will only work
on a Windows computer. If you develop a solution for
other platforms, please let us know so we can post it here.
For more info, please see: http://web.media.mit.edu/~benres/simpleserial/)
Build Your Own Orb
If want to build your own orb, or just want to know more
about ours, we've provided some information. Please
let us know what you build and we'll post a picture in our
upcoming gallery.
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