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Weekend Photos: Instagram Edition

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Photo by imagraphicartist

We’ve seen so many great Instagram photographers that it’s high time to feature the iPhone wonder-app in our weekend photos.

If you enjoy these photos, you’ve got to check out Objective Scenes, the group blog dedicated to mobile photography by some of our awesome photog friends on the web.

Oh, three things to do this weekend:

  • Renegade Craft Fair: Saturday, July 9 and Sunday, July 10 from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. at the Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion. Heather, the crafty hands behind our Fast Pass Clipper Card holder, will be there! Take the 28, 47, or 49.
  • Moveable Type: Letterpress Demo in a Truck. Saturday, July 9 – 12:00 pm. San Francisco Center for the Book. 300 De Haro Street Suite 334. Make your own print to take home! Take the 9, 10, or 19, or BART to 16th/Mission.
  • Cake Contest at Omnivore Books On Food. 4-5 p.m., 3885a Cesar Chavez Street. Free to enter, $5 for eaters-only. Bring your cake to be judged! Take the J, the 24, 48, or 67.

If you know of other great things to share with other readers, go for it.

Enjoy these photos and your weekend! And if you’ve got cool Muni/BART/Caltrain pictures from your phone, please send them our way.


Photo by chadsf


Photo by moshbrown


Photo by tigerbeat


Photo by imagraphicartist


Photo by cmey1


Photo by nialldavid

Category: Photos, Story Archive

What if a cute bunny gave NextBus predicitions?

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That must be what Ciaran asked himself. He says, “I finally found a use for this French wifi connected rabbit I bought.”

Inaccurate predictions sound a little better from the robot rabbit, eh?

Update for the geek inside all (ok, some) of us:

Ciaran sent over more notes about how he programmed the robot rabbit called Karotz, which he details on his blog.

An excerpt: First you write javascript programs that interact with an API to control the various Karotz functions like the ears, text to speech etc. Find the developer’s forum on Google Groups (use Google’s automatic translation feature because it’s mostly in French).

Then spend a few evenings writing the Muni times app, using available bus arrival data through xml feeds. You’ll need to use tinyxmldom.js. Upload the code to the rabbit through the website — good luck trying to debug it, though. There is a Linux vm for developing but it’s only a javascript vm, not a simulator.

Wow. Or, you can always just watch the video above like we did.

Thanks, Ciaran!

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