Database Research

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What sort of apps is Firebase good for?

There’s really no limit to the types of apps that can be helped by Firebase products. There are only limits to the platforms it can be used on. iOS and Android are the primary targets for the Firebase SDKs, and there’s increasing support for web, Flutter, Unity, and C++. You should also know there’s an Admin SDK available for a variety of languages, to be used with any backend components you might require.

On top of those SDKs, there’s a library called FirebaseUI (Android, iOS, web) that provides a bunch of helpful utilities to make development with Firebase even easier. And there are also projects such as AngularFire that wrap the web SDKs for use with Angular. These are open source. Firebase likes open source.

Advantages:

This allows to create an application of sufficient size, is very easy to learn (documentation is very good) and customer service is excellent;  We can host our site there, so we don’t have to spend on other services. The real-time database is very easy to set up so we consume less time setting up and more on working on the actual project.

Disadvantages:

Switching to Firebase can be a bit complicated. Although there are many tutorials, Firebase is growing fast, and these tutorials are usually obsolete but can be used in most cases. If you have a lot of users and store and access a lot of data, Firebase can be expensive.

What problems are you solving with the product? 

Firebase reduces startup costs, simplifies prototyping, and allows resizing. This can allow our team to be fast and fast without compromising stability.

 

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Painting the dome #5?

Vasil HristovLeave a comment

We washed the ruined paint and we were happy to see that the dome had suffered no damage from the paint or the heat of the hairdryer.

I tried spraying it again and this time without using warm air, just patience. The paint was just running down the walls of the dome.

It was a fruitless effort so I washed it off quickly.

It was hard to get a consistent ratio of paint and water every time I mixed them.

That paint ended up washed off quickly as well, only after a few layers.

@vasil1hristov

MDF Wrap

Vasil HristovLeave a comment

After the pedestal was already built and the whole on the top was cut to size using a makeshift drawing compass to measure radius of exactly 25 centimetres, the next step was to get mdf sheet and to wrap the pedestal with it.

Me and @burdetiadrian8 got the MDF sheet and brought it to the Crazy Lab

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We did a quick test fit, to make sure it all checks out:

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@vasil1hristov

 

Arduino > Unity

Jay-CeeLeave a comment

This is titled Arduino > Unity but its actually
Arduino > Firmata > Processing > OSC > Unity
Today I got some help so that I could figure out how to connect the Arduino to Unity.
Im using firmata for Arduino communication with processing and I use processing to send with OSC to Unity. Now everything works and I could succesfully send data from the arduino to Unity.

 

@appleflapjc

Painting the dome #4

Vasil HristovLeave a comment

DISASTER

The warm air from the hairdryer was helping the paint to dry quicker. However when the water in the paint heats up and starts evaporating it expands and since the layers were already quite thick and strong they wouldn’t just let the evaporated water through the paint layer. That caused bubbles full of air to form under the paint surface and made the whole dome look like it was covered in moon craters.

It wasn’t hard to think about that but I didn’t expect such results. I popped the bubbles and waited for the paint to dry on it’s own., that however caused it to crack and fall off the smooth surface of the dome.

I learned my lesson.

@vasil1hristov

Expedition for drum pad materials

Jay-CeeLeave a comment

This is something we should have done a while ago but we went to several stores to look for options for possible drumpads. It has some requirements:
It should be bouncy material that doesnt make to much noise when struck and also it should be able to take a beating.
We found all sorts of things.

Swimming pool tiles
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Rubbermat:
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Cheap doormats from Action:

 

Also a full drumset is an option:
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Painting the dome #3

Vasil HristovLeave a comment

Since the paint was drying too slow I was being inpatient and decided it would be a good idea to have something to dry it with.

I brought my hairdryer from home and started blowing warm air on the dome with it.

It was a successful endeavour and the paint was drying a lot quicker which allowed me to apply multiple layers on the uncovered parts of the dome:

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Marketing content creation I

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Now that we have a marketing plan content has to be created. I drew a concept surface of a ‘planet of sound’. This might be used later on but is more for concepting purposes.

CityOfSound

Apart from that I made a background planet to assist the planets from the banner in a new marketing video that Oyvind is working on.

For the second video we need an animation of someone walking on the surface of one of the sound planets. So I made an animation we can use.

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@uselessmarkies

 

Designing User Interface concept

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Today I created a basic concept for the UI.
We as a team weren’t exactly sure what we’re going to show on screen. We all had different idea’s. I hope this design gives us a clear vision. I didn’t want to rely on text because the image on the dome stretches and that could make it unreadable, or too big.
So I focused on mainly audio cues and icons.
Because I had to think how it looked projected in a dome, I made actual projection images what we can use as a loose guide to figure out a way how to do this.

@appleflapjc