Quadrigram: New visual programming environment

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May 15th, 2012 in news, resources, visualisingdata.com

Quadrigram: New visual programming environment launches

In recent months we’ve seen a num­ber of new devel­op­ments on the tools side of the visu­al­i­sa­tion field. We’ve had Datawrap­per, the Miso project and are still wait­ing in antic­i­pa­t…

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Codecademy teaches users to work with APIs

Codecademy teaches users to work with APIs from YouTube, NPR and more
By Ben Popper, theverge.com

Giving novice coders the ability to build on top of other software

Since it launched last year, New York start­up Codecad­e­my has helped to fill the huge demand for com­put­er sci­ence edu­ca­tion with free online cours­es in pro­gram­ming…

RT @verge: Codecademy teaches users to work with APIs from Youtube, NPR and more http://flip.it/NeWrL http://flip.it/byIrZ

Spotmaps translates every second of a film into a block of color

Spotmaps translates every second of a film into a block of color
By Amar Toor, theverge.com

What can a film’s color scheme say about its nar­ra­tive? Accord­ing to Spotmaps, quite a lot. Cre­at­ed by Andy Willis, Spotmaps is a Python-based project that con­cep­tu­al­izes clas­sic movies not in words or sto­ry­boards, but highly-detailed…

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Arduino: How To Smell Pollutants

English: Arduino Serial board
English: Arduino Serial board (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

by liseman, instructables.com

This Instructable explains how to use a gas sen­sor with your Arduino.

This lets your Arduino smell (and hence you pro­gram respons­es to) over­all gas lev­els for a vari­ety of nas­ties, includ­ing ethanol, methane, formalde­hyde, and a bunch o…

http://flpbd.it/EypGF

How To Smell Pollutants