As if I wasn’t busy enough already… with three jobs, a never-ending house reno and a list of unfinished personal projects stretching back to my teens. So of course, I’ve got involved in a new crazy venture which has led to the fusion of my various day-jobs with Deepend\/Nomad and GoGet car-share along with my personal interests in the Internet of Things and curing cancer.<\/p>\n

Shitbox Rally – The Internets Team!<\/a><\/p>\n

Matt and Dave are driving from Perth to Darwin in a $1,000 car for Cancer Council and have decided to deck it out with as much Internet-connected tech as a 12v battery can push through a second-hand inverter. The developers at Deepend and Nomad Agency have weighed in, building a website in a week, a Rasberry Pi cluster containing a LAMP stack to harvest photos and sensor information, to manage Spotify streams and several redundant Internet connections.<\/p>\n

The guys at GoGet were more than happy to pitch in, so they’ve donated time and equipment to wire up the car with the Fleetcutter telematics hardware and a custom server, which I’ve just finished installing. It’s in fact an full installation of the fleet-management system, doubling up as a trial of the Fleetcutter SaaS offering I’ve been developing over the last 6 months. More importantly they’ve donated an snazzy orange wing-mirror.<\/p>\n

It’s been a win-win situation for the two companies as Deepend’s urgent need of a smart API into the vehicle has really focused my efforts on tidying up the Fleetcutter offering, which is incredibly powerful and complex internally but doesn’t have a simple interface for open consumption by developers (at least not for internal business purposes, it has several public<\/em> APIs). Having a specific set of urgent needs from experienced developers has been given me clarity in an MVP API.<\/p>\n

It’s amazing what you can achieve as a team when you get all behind a charitable venture with a deadline!<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This is what (probably) we’re planning to build in the next two months. Quite a bit is already done, but there’s still a long way to go. I’m sure there’s going to be some late nights in April…<\/p>\n

You can read more details of our progress on Deepend’s Chrysalis blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So far:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/chrysalis.deepend.com.au\/technology\/rally-the-future-against-cancer-shitbox-repairs-part-1<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/chrysalis.deepend.com.au\/technology\/shtboxrallyweek2update<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/chrysalis.deepend.com.au\/shitbox-rally-2\/rally-the-future-against-cancer-shtspiration<\/a><\/p>\n

And don’t forget to donate to Cancer Council at\u00a0RallyTheFuture!<\/a>\u00a0Thanks.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As if I wasn’t busy enough already… with three jobs, a never-ending house reno and a list of unfinished personal projects stretching back to my teens. So of course, I’ve got involved in a new crazy venture which has led … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,30,20,32],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-automotive","tag-deepend","tag-innovation","tag-iot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}