Comments for labs http://www.perceptdev.com/labs Thu, 12 May 2011 22:43:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Telepathy and Frictionless Payments by Damien http://www.perceptdev.com/labs/telepathy-and-frictionless-payments/#comment-8 Damien Thu, 12 May 2011 22:43:39 +0000 http://www.perceptdev.com/labs/telepathy-and-frictionless-payments/#comment-8 Well, they can make interest on the float. Hopefully some companies will find a way to profit on those seconds of float. Well, they can make interest on the float. Hopefully some companies will find a way to profit on those seconds of float.

]]> Comment on Telepathy and Frictionless Payments by Jacob http://www.perceptdev.com/labs/telepathy-and-frictionless-payments/#comment-6 Jacob Thu, 12 May 2011 20:14:30 +0000 http://www.perceptdev.com/labs/telepathy-and-frictionless-payments/#comment-6 Ok, note #1 this text is white and on a white background in the editor. Might want to fix that… The big battle in NFC right now is happening between the credit card companies/banks and the telco/wireless carriers. The problem is no matter who is handling the transaction, none want to give you the ability to transact currency without taking a piece. Cash is the only non-fee solution because the government maintains the system (develops anti-counterfeiting technology, actively seeks out and prosecutes counterfeiters and people trying to game the system). Any commercial effort is going to require resources and infrastructure to support a fair and safe system. No one is going to do that for 'free'. We pay our taxes and a very small fragment goes to maintaining the monetary system we all take for granted. No commercial business is going to give that away in the short term. The question is whether someone will make a system that is so frictionless and so universal that it exceeds the friction level of cash. Ok, note #1 this text is white and on a white background in the editor. Might want to fix that…

The big battle in NFC right now is happening between the credit card companies/banks and the telco/wireless carriers. The problem is no matter who is handling the transaction, none want to give you the ability to transact currency without taking a piece. Cash is the only non-fee solution because the government maintains the system (develops anti-counterfeiting technology, actively seeks out and prosecutes counterfeiters and people trying to game the system). Any commercial effort is going to require resources and infrastructure to support a fair and safe system. No one is going to do that for ‘free’. We pay our taxes and a very small fragment goes to maintaining the monetary system we all take for granted.

No commercial business is going to give that away in the short term. The question is whether someone will make a system that is so frictionless and so universal that it exceeds the friction level of cash.

]]> Comment on Hello (again) world, this is PD Labs by Benito Fenandez http://www.perceptdev.com/labs/hello-world/#comment-2 Benito Fenandez Sun, 01 May 2011 21:42:55 +0000 http://www.perceptdev.com/labs/?p=1#comment-2 I was following a link for code to connect serially an iPhone and a propeller. i have some students that want to work in this project. I was wondering if you can repost the code for the iPhone. They know how to do the PARALLAX porpeller seria part to collect data (sonar, PING and proximity sensors) They would like to display and control the robot from the iPhone. Thanks I was following a link for code to connect serially an iPhone and a propeller. i have some students that want to work in this project. I was wondering if you can repost the code for the iPhone. They know how to do the PARALLAX porpeller seria part to collect data (sonar, PING and proximity sensors) They would like to display and control the robot from the iPhone.

Thanks

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