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Estimotes are nice for production, but we built testing beacons out of Raspberry Pi's http://developer.radiusnetworks.com/2013/10/09/how-to-make-an-ibeacon-out
by cmollis 13y ago
Estimotes are nice for production, but we built testing beacons out of Raspberry Pi's
http://developer.radiusnetworks.com/2013/10/09/how-to-make-an-ibeacon-out-of-a-raspberry-pi.html http://developer.radiusnetworks.com/2013/10/09/how-to-make-a...
Here's a link the source for an app that we wrote for a Party that we threw recently..
https://github.com/backofthecup/HolidayParty https://github.com/backofthecup/HolidayParty
We built a few D3 visualizations of where users were at the party, and how fast they found hidden iBeacons... kind of like a treasure hunt game to demo the technology.
- post_break 13y agoCan you explain how the device works? What does my phone do when it picks up this iBeacon?
- cmollis 13y agoIf you've implemented the location callbacks for a specific region (defined by a UUID), then you'll receive messages with that detail how far you are from the device (within about 70m, depending on your device). Depending on the device, the power settings, etc, this can be very accurate.. to < 1m. The IOS api's also support background processing so the app doesn't necessarily need to be in the foreground to process. You will get called back when you enter and exit regions.
- kkwok 13y agoWould love to see the visualizations!