Phidgets in Flash
I'm not exactly a hardware guy, and I'm definitely no electrical engineer. That's why I got pretty excited the other day when I was able to use Phidget's RFID card reader with Flash to make a card reading application.
Working on interactive kiosks in my employment has been a lot of fun, and we've been exploring using Flash and .exe wrappers to make some cool kiosk applications. This card reader presents some cool possibilities, including language switching on the fly for international users, admin access with a card swipe, the list goes on. Plus, they offer documentation, Flash API's, and examples of how to integrate their stuff with your applications. It looks like they're pushing Actionscript 3.0 as they've stopped releasing AS 2.0 versions with their updates.
So if you're in a similar line of work, go check out some of the hardware that Phidgets offers.
Labels: Flash, kiosks, technology
posted by Cahlan @ 1/12/2007 10:12:00 AM
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Hey Cahlan, Phidgets are great. If your interested in some other kits, I maintain a page with a list of related resources to things similar to Phidgets here:
http://www.impossibilities.com/max_2005/resources.php
And I recently put together a presentation on robotics/electronics integration with Flash you might be interested in:
http://www.impossibilities.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=223
I still need to get the very latest version of the presentation up which I added a lot more resources too - but thought if you are doing kiosk/related work with Phidgets you might want to check it out.
Rob
robert--
Thanks for the info! I'm very interested to see the presentation, please let me know when it's been posted.
Cahlan
hey, which version of flash is needed? i'm trying to use the phidget accelerometer, but not having any luck at all.
thanks!
aya at technekai (dot) com
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