Normal week (at least for me, most of Spaniards didn't work on Thursday, lucky you ;-)), with some interesting links.

I've found Muse: The Brain-Sensing Headband. Fantastic idea, hope it's first of many more to come in new ways of interacting with surrounding technology.

This week I've started to read my old (from university) notes on electronics, and reading some ebooks on basic electronics (my brain is thinking again in concepts such as current, capacitors or N-P unions). It's quite possible a Raspberry Pi we ordered 5-6 months ago appears at daHaus this week or next, so I'm thinking in some basic projects (will I be able to turn on a LED? Not sure).

Besides, but close to it, I was reminded ideas like SmartThings: we sell you some sensors for your home, a hub for all information those sensors are going to generate, a web site where you can check can they're sensing, a mobile app... Idea is fantastic, I'll take two... main problem for me is price, not only initial $300, but the possibility of a $0-$14 fee per month... I also found hue by Philips, to handle lighting at home with a mobile app. Only sold through Apple (!?) and, yes, a bit overpriced (a hub and 3 fantastic multicolor bulbs per "only" $199).

As William Gibson said: "The future is already here -- it is just not very evenly distributed". He didn't say anything about overpriced...

Enough rambling (sorry), some links:

Programming

• Elm: Making the Web Functional: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Elm
• The Mikado Method: http://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/the-mikado-method/
• From The Bid Data Spain 2012 Conference: The Big Business of Big Data by Jon Bruner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7efDRf4q3lk&list=PL6O3g23-p8Tq6hD4-WuUmmDvtP17xTqBg

Tutorials

• Try R (from code school) [http://tryr.codeschool.com]/(http://tryr.codeschool.com)

Ruby

• rf-/keynote · GitHub: https://github.com/rf-/keynote
• Veraticus/huey · GitHub: https://github.com/Veraticus/huey
• krypt/FuzzBert · GitHub: https://github.com/krypt/FuzzBert
• Dissecting a Ruby Block - Pat Shaughnessy - Ruby Conference 2012: http://confreaks.com/videos/1286-rubyconf2012-dissecting-a-ruby-block
• krypt - The next level of Ruby cryptography - Martin Boßlet - Ruby Conference 2012: http://confreaks.com/videos/1311-rubyconf2012-krypt-the-next-level-of-ruby-cryptography

Java and other JVM languages

• Atry/fastring · GitHub: https://github.com/Atry/fastring
• RESThub 2.0: RESThub is a stack based on Spring and Backbone.js designed to build HTML5 applications easily and efficiently. It provides tooling, libraries and documentation in order to build modular web applications with client side state, stateless server and REST webservices or Websocket communication between both. http://resthub.org/

Javascript

• ajaxorg/cloud9 · GitHub: https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9
• FightCode - Killing Robots for Fun: http://fightcodegame.com/

iOS programming

• iOS Unit testing: http://iosunittesting.com/

Testing

• Gitnesse: http://hybridgroup.github.com/gitnesse/
• nicegraham/SeleniumScreenSnapper · GitHub: https://github.com/nicegraham/SeleniumScreenSnapper

Design and graphs

• CSS Explain: http://josh.github.com/css-explain/
• Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software: https://gephi.org/

Tools

• Fing: http://www.overlooksoft.com/fing

Robotics and electronics

• Netduino :: home: http://netduino.com/
• Make: Lego and Arduino Projects - O'Reilly Media: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024316.do
• Raspberry Pi information and Videos: http://raspi.tv/
• DomoPrac - Domotica practica paso a paso: http://www.domoprac.com/
• Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Solutions and Networks from EnOcean: http://www.enocean.com/en/home/
• Free Circuit Simulator-Circuit Design and Simulation Software List: http://www.circuitstoday.com/circuit-design-and-simulation-softwares
• Muse: The Brain-Sensing Headband: http://www.indiegogo.com/interaxonmuse

Media

• Star Trek - En la oscuridad: http://www.defanafan.com/2012/12/star-trek-en-la-oscuridad-brutal.html
• Cargo: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381940/
• Most distant image of Earth: https://twitter.com/marcuschown/status/276965121962680320/photo/1