Digital Pariah

Things are changing for Digital Pariah, what has been a steady workload over the past year is now coming to an end and it is time to consider what happens next.

There have been a couple of projects brewing here, awaiting their moment, so maybe their moment has come.

But first, there are some things that need to be sorted out. If this company is to transition from a pure consultancy into anything more we will need a web site and we need some mechanisms internally to handle the publishing of that website.

There are a number of Content Management Systems out there, like Movable Type and Word Press. For the moment, though, the web site (with the exception of this blog, powered by Movable Type) will be hand-rolled and published with our own deployment system, which gives us better control over the integration with some of the services we are planning to build.

I'm starting to think I have an obligation to do something more constructive - there aren't many people around who can actually do things, so those of us who can should do what we can. I am, however, somewhat limited in both the amount of time and amount of imagination I can bring to bear.

There are a number of things on the go at the moment which probably warrant their own entries. Aside from that, I intend to ramp up some of my Internet of Things investigations, there is a government run competition which might be worth entering and I have just ordered some more equipment to do prototyping. Mostly this is Arduino-centric, although there is included an Intel SoC devboard which is pin-compatible with the Arduino. Kit:

• GPS


• Voice activator


• RFID


• Remote control


• smart card reader


• wifi power switch


• proximity detector


• Bluetooth OBD (again!)


• Pi/Arduino shield adaptor


• accelerometer