Project Ara dan Phoneblocks

Apa yang lagi jadi bahan pembicaraan saat ini?

Modular phone.

Never heard of it

Baru-baru ini Motorola baru saja mengumumkan Project Ara, sebuah project open hardware untuk membangun ponsel dengan komponen-komponen modular.

Maksud lo?

Yoi, seperti lego atau merakit PC. Kamu nanti bisa merakit ponsel kamu sendiri. Seperti dilansir di blog-motorola, Motorola ngaku sebenarnya Project Ara ini secara rahasia sedang dikerjakan selama setahun terakhir.

http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/

http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/

Seperti apa sih jadinya nanti?

Intinya, ponsel Project Ara nantinya akan terdiri dari sebuah frame + beberapa modul. Pick your choice.
It could be a processor, display, keyboard, extra battery, camera, or anything else. Kalau kamu pernah lihat video tentang Phoneblocks karya Hakkens, idenya adalah kamu dapat menukar/mengganti modul-modul tadi sesuai dengan pilihan kamu.

  • Kalo kamu cloud user kelas berat misal, ya ganti ajah modul storage dengan batere yang lebih gede + upgrade CPU
  • Kalo kamu suka narsis dengan ponsel, ya ganti ajah modul kamera dengan yg paling top misalnya
  • Kalo kamu gamer, modul display + CPU kayanya yang akan disasar.

Ya seperti itulah idenya. OK deh berikut ini adalah video mengenai gagasan soal Phoneblocks

Dan apa yang terjadi saat Motorola ketemu dengan Dave Hakkens?

Kolaborasi.

Modular
Open-Source
Designed to Last
Made for The Entire World

Android did with the phone OS/software, now Google (via Motorolla) want to do it again in the hardware area.
What next?

ada yang pernah tau tentang Modu?

http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/

http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/

referensi
Motorola Blog: Goodbye Sticky. Hello Ara.

@Tweetacoffee, kirim kopi via Twitter

Eh?

Ada yang salah? Ngga kok, paling ngga buat di US sana sih 🙂

Twitter dan Starbucks baru-baru ini mengumumkan kerjasamanya dalam sebuah program bernama “tweet-a-coffee“. Intinya sih lewat program ini para pelanggan Starbucks bisa saling “bertukar” Starbucks Gift Card senilai $5. Harapannya gift card tadi bisa di-“uangkan” dengan cara … ya beli kopi Starbucks (atau products F&B apapunlah itu di Starbucks) dan tentunya menaikan angka penjualan warung kopi asal Amrik ini.

tweetacoffee-flow

Jadi, kalo kamu (in US) mo nraktir teman, sohib, gebetan Coffee Latte Grande dari Starbucks saat ini cukup via Twitter.

Caranya?

  1. Kamu mesti punya akun Starbucks
  2. Login ke https://www.starbucks.com/tweet-a-coffee menggunakan akun Starbucks tadi
  3. Isikan akun twitter milik orang yang ingin kamu kirimi gift card (nominal yang ada saat ini baru $5 saja)
  4. Klik tombol ijo “Tweet Your eGift”
  5. Nanti Starbucks akan nge-tweet ke teman (atau bos, pacar, gbtan dll) isinya sebuah link buat di-redeem oleh si penerima tweet.
  6. Si penerima tweet cukup akses link tersebut nanti ada beberapa verifikasi, print redeem code-nya, bawa deh ke warung Starbucks terdekat buat dituker ama kopi.
    Kira-kira seperti ini:
    tweet-a-coffee-tweets

Di Indonesia mestinya bisa laris nih kalo melihat dari penggunaan twitter-nya. Sayang banyakan alay-nya sih plus the habbit is not there yet.

Mungkin attitude juga 😛

How to Create OS X 10.9 Mavericks Bootable Installer

install-mavs-00a

So, Apple’s latest Mac OS X 10.9 finally released with codename Mavericks.

Like the previous 2 version (Lion 10.7 & Mountain Lion 10.8), Mavs doesnt ship on a disc. it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store. The installer it self needs no bootable installation disc. But it cant stop you for having a bootable Mavericks installer, right?

It will be very useful if you want to install Mavericks on multiple Macs offline.

And one more thing, users running Snow Leopard and later will be able to nab the update for free via the App Store. No additional cost.

So, i’d like to share how to create a bootable Mavericks installer on a USB stick. It’s not that difficult actually.

  1. You have to get the latest version of Mavericks installer first. Since i’ve downloaded Mavericks today (23/10/2013) from App Store, my version should be 10.9.0. The installer size is about 5.3GB. After downloading the installer a new window will appear asking you to install. Just cancel it.
    install-mavs-00c
    There’ll be at least 2 ways to create the bootable installer. Using Disk Utility and the fastest one is using a new feature built into Mavericks for creating an install drive called [highlight]createinstallmedia[/highlight]. I’ll use this method here.
  2. You need to have at least 8GB USB stick. Rename it to something you like. I name my USB Mavericks. Well it’s not to rename the drive. But since we will us Terminal to type the command, I think it will be easier for you to use a simple name for the drive. Make sure your USB is properly formatted.
    If you’re not sure about that, this is the step to prepare your USB drive.

    I use my previous ML USB installer

    I use my previous ML USB installer



    Open Disk Utility, select your USB drive and choose Erase tab

    Open Disk Utility, select your USB drive and choose Erase tab



    Choose format Mac OS Extended (Journaled)Give the name to your driveClick Erase

    Choose format Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
    Give the name to your drive
    Click Erase



    that's all, you'll have your USB ready

    that’s all, you’ll have your USB ready



    [highlight]Warning: This step will erase the destination drive or partition, so make sure it doesn’t contain any valuable data. [/highlight]
  3. Open Terminal, and type/copy paste this command
    sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Mavericks --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction
  4. Type your your root/admin-level account password when prompted.
  5. You’ll see the progress in the Terminal window. It will displays a textual representation of a progress bar: Erasing Disk: 0%… 10%…20%… bla bla bla. Wait until everything finished.

    I go inside the installer directory, therefore the command will be a lil bit different for you

    I browse inside the installer directory, therefore the command will be a lil bit different for you

  6. Voila! You have your bootable Mavericks-install drive.

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A new Firefox OS Phone from LG: Fireweb

photos by engadget.com

I WANT ONE!!!

I’ve seen the Keon and some people kindly enough to lend it to me and let me play for a while.
During Mozilla Summit 2013 in Santa Clara, I’ve also played with some of the devices made by ZTE. Never a fans of ZTE phones. Has one long time a go in the early day of Android, and it was so … well, couldn’t find a proper english word to describe it.
I’ve seen the list of possible partner on spreading the Firefox OS with Sony, FoxConn, Huawei, LG, TCL, Spreadtrum there along with ZTE.
I’ve seen the Geekphone Peak showed by Gary K. (Mozilla Security Engineer) at MozHQ Mountain View

But this LG Fireweb is something!
FYI, LG is launching its first Mozilla Firefox OS phone called the LG Fireweb (LG D300). The phone will be available soon in Brazil from wireless carrier Telefonica.
Like most other Firefox handsets, the Fireweb is an entry-level class. But, Fireweb has something that help set it apart from the ZTE Open and Alcatel One Touch Fire, including a 5MP camera with auto-focus and an LED flash. The spec is:

Screen Size: 4” (480 X 32o)
Weight: 122.50 g
Size: 11.38 X 6.65 X 0.9
OS: Firefox OS v1.1
Camera: 5MPX with Flash
Internal Memory: 2 GB + support for 32 GB microSD card
Battery: 1540 mAh
Connectivity: 3G

You can read the full spec detail in here

Mozilla Summit 2013 – Day 03

In the previous posts (in Bahasa Indonesia but i’ll post the english version if you want it) you might feel that i’m trying to write a report about the summit. Well I did try, but actually it’s more to sharing my feeling, the exiting being in the summit and the whole topic in the last 3 days. The new tech that most of them I barely know, the people, the project, the cause, the vision, the values of Mozilla and being a Mozillian and so on

This is it, the last day of the summit.
Felt like it was just yesterday the summit begun. There are still many people i’d like to meet, talk, discuss and plenty of things need to be learnt. But more important is i need to contribute more. And join more groups also 🙂

Therefore I specifically attend the SuMo (Support Mozilla) class to meet Rosana and Madalina, the wonderwomen behind SuMo Projects and the other fellow SuMo as well. Andi @belutz and @rara79 also join this class. I’ll make the post about it later.

In the afternoon, we had a visit to Mozilla HQ at Castro Street, Mountain View lead by Pascal Finette. It was only for the first 50 person who signed up but i think we had excess passenger 😛 So, 50 people using the bus, the other 2 or 3 people taking taxi he he he.

After the closing speech, this summit end with a dance party where Gen Kanai being the DJ that night and played a lot of nice music 🙂

As usual, you can view the rest of the photos on my flickr
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Mozilla Summit 2013 – Day 02

Antri kopi pagi *slurrrp*

Halo halo
It’s day #2 of Mozilla Summit 2013.

I choose to take less photos but take more notes because there’ll be a lot of interesting topics in day #2. I mean technical related topic because we have Innovation Fair. Up until the second day, this summit is a perfect reminder of how brilliant the mozilla contributors are and and a wake up call how much of a n00b I really am. So much to learn and it’s like burning me inside (in a good way).
Yosh!!!
Keynotes di hari kedua ini penuh demonstrasi produk. Sebut saja ada WebRTC, Simple Push, Firefox OS Marketplace, App Manager, AppMaker, Shumway, games berbasis HTML5.

And then The Innovation Fair!

I saw many projects – i mean [highlight]AWESOME PROJECTS[/highlight] – that i (probably you too) haven’t heart before. If you’re there you know what i mean, there were “WOW!!” appluse, whistle everywhere in the room. And there are also gasp, interviews, note taking, asking questions rapidly like a machine gun to the developer because their projects are just simply … awesome.

Some of them might say “Ah, it’s just a toy. I built it for fun coz at that time i have nothing to do
Daaa,
kalo iseng ajah dah sekeren itu gimana jadinya kalo mereka pada serius 😛
Beneran, jadi ingat ke masa-masa lalu waktu bisa alokasi waktu senggang untuk bikin project-project iseng/experimen ^_^ (apa lagi kalo lihat film Code Rush :P). I’m trying to get those days back to my life now! FTW! 😛

Saya mulai dengan [highlight]Lantea Maps app[/highlight] yang dihubungkan dengan kontrol fisik dibuat menggunakan MaKey Makey. Developernya bilang ini cuman proyek iseng saja, Makey Makey mengingatkan saya ke maenan bread board dengan segala printilan elektroniknya di kelas teknik digital-nya Pak Bambang sewaktu masih sekolah dulu. Si kontroler Makey ini tugasnya untuk zoom out/in serta geser layar kiri kanan atas bawah

Belajar bagaimana tim Jepang yang sukses membajak satu display untuk demo HTML5 game lengkap dengan xbox controller. Perangkat gamenya sendiri dibuat menggunakan Panda Board. Tim Jepang juga mendemokan gesture control menggunakan sensor leap motion (dan saya lupa order barangnya padahal yg jual di amrik juga 🙁 ). Ini semacam versi primitif gesture control di film Minority Report lah. Gila emang tim Jepang ini.

photos by bkerensa

photos by bkerensa

photos by bkerensa

photos by bkerensa

Ada Talkilla, project ini adalah salah satu contoh penerapan WebRTC. Nah kalo kamu pingin nyobain Talkilla, tinggal akses ke sini. Cuman, kamu harus menggunakan Firefox 25 ke atas.

Ada [highlight]Appmaker.[/highlight]
Appmaker ini semacam WYSIWYG GUI/IDE untuk membuat Firefox OS app. Masih dalam tahap pengembangan tapi sangat-sangat potensial. Di versi ini kamu sudah bisa menggunakan beberapa utama dari WebAPI HTML5. Cukup drag and drop juga untuk membuat layout tampilan app kamu. Yah bisa dianalogikan kaya pake Ms Visual Studio, Dreamweaver n sejenisnya deh 🙂

Panda Chassis & Mozpool, sebuah proyek yang merakit kumpulan Panda Board menjadi semacam blade server. mounting rack chassisnya ini adalah project open source yang disebut sebagai Panda Chassis itu tadi.

photo by @belutz

photo by @belutz

Firefox Metro, ini touch based browser yang optimized untuk perangkat Windows 8.x. Designnya alus banget dan minimalis, ini yang bikin saya tertarik. I love simplicity.

[highlight]Firefox Australis[/highlight]. Ummm, sama kaya Metro mending kalian nyobain sendiri atau lihat video berikut deh biar tau gambarannya 🙂

OpenNews, ini bukan produk fisik/aplikasi. Dimotori oleh Erika Owens, OpenNews adalah sebuah gerakan yang mengajak kita untuk membangun sebuah ekosistem yang membantu kegiatan jurnalistik berkembang di era open web ini. Erika kerenn 😛

Dan masih banyak lagi yang saya ga sempat mampir *dan saya menyesal berat ninggal kamera di kamar, untung masih bawa voice recorder karena nyatet sudah ga sempat juga, keburu exiting*

Karena sibuk ngider serta “interogasi” dari satu meja ke meja lain, di hari kedua ini saya praktis cuman ikutan 1 kelas fulltime. Topik kelas di hari kedua ini ga kalah banyak dibandingkan hari pertama. Namun ada satu ganjalan. Sebenarnya saya berharap perwakilan dari almamater sekolah saya bisa join kelas 3D GameLab Open Badges. 3D GameLab Open Badges ini dapat digunakan di proses belajar mengajar terutama di sekolah. Lisa Dawley yang memberikan materi di kelas ini backgroundnya juga dari pendidikan.
Tapi sayang orangnya entah pada ngilang kemana, jadi cukup kecewa  sih. Padahal ini kesempatan yang could only be one in a lifetime. Mumpung di sini gitu loh *sigh*

Di akhir acara hari itu saya join kelas “Level Up with Firefox Student Ambassadors” yang herannya ga ada aktivis FSA Indonesia yang join kelas ini. And  I was like the only one that has no relationship with any education institution in the class. Buset deh he he he he.

Eh engga ding, si Rara kan dokter n di akhir kelas ada @eriskatp ma @akkuderry yang kemudian muncul. Sayang mereka ini statusnya masih highschool student, sementara FSA untuk studentnya lebih nyasar ke level mahasiswa. Tapi program FSA ini terbuka juga untuk guru, jadi level SMA pun masih bisa masuk.

Di hari kedua ini, acara malamnya terbagi menjadi dua.
1. Maen ke Great America yang temanya hari itu soal Haloween.
2. Nonton film Code Rush yang menceritakan sejarah project Mozilla

Tadinya pingin ikut ke Great America, tapi apa daya harus remote kerjaan kantor. Cukup banyak hal yang harus di review plus kayanya saya jetlag-nya telat, jadi kesempatan lah buat nambah waktu tidur 🙂

Great America

Great America Halloween Haunt!

Tapi ada satu hal yang membahagiakan peserta dari Asia di hari kedua ini. ADA NASI di menu makan malamnya!!! Nyicip nasi putih + kari ama nasi briyani deh (entah briyani/tandoori pokoke nasi! –mode wong ndeso asli–)

What an exiting day

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