Who-is-in
- I'd like to know who (if anyone) is in the space at any particular time.
- I'd like to find out by way of the intertubes - on a members-only webpage or perhaps by asking a bot on the IRC channel
- it would be great if a screen on the wall showed who was here and their exact whereabouts!
Tracking and identifying people
On entry to the space, a member: -
- blogs/tweets their (impending) arrival
- perhaps even blogs their intention to visit (perhaps tentative)
- or flicks their own personal members' "I'm here" switch - this is easy!
- or picks up and switches on a little wireless device that they can carry around the space - it tracks their movements which can be plotted! It can be mounted in a tin-foil hat!
wireless device
This last one is crazy-mad-awesome and most likely to never get done!
- JeeNode - most off-the-shelf and re-usable (£20?) http://jeelabs.com/products/jeenode
- the RFM12B http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9582 as used in the JeeNode ($7)
- Cybiko - we have some of these - do they work? What can they do?
- IM-ME
- some other crazy little wireless transceiver
- plus a microcontroller (if needed) plus battery power
- server end: tracking devices, device announcements, polling for devices, special device states
- bluetooth devices - cheap enough? Hackable bluetooth consumer devices
- true IEEE 802.11 wireless - bits of old routers!
- mobile phones! members phones with bluetooth discovery
- FM radio!!!!