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1. Adobe AIR with
Java & Bluetooth
Swiss Flash User Group (SFUG)
Zürich | 15. Dezember 2009

2. Hello my name is
Andreas A. Lorenz
dctrl - interactive media gmbh

3. What to expect today
● We (AIR) can do just about anything
● Extended capabilities

4. How to connect a
person to the
sourrounding space?

5. Use a mobile as a
bridge between a
person and the space
that person is in...

6. You are already
tracable...

7. Extended Desktop
Interaction
AIR Middle- Hardware &
Client ware Executable

8. MerAPI
● Bridge between Java and AIR
● Light weight and straightforward AS3 API
● Local socket communication (AMF serialization)

9. SWC & Java libs
● merapi-core-flex.swc
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● merapi-core.jar
● commons-logging.jar
● flex-messaging-common.jar
● flex-messaging-core.jar
● log4j-1.2.15.jar
● spring.jar
● tools.jar

10. Additional Java lib:
freetts.jar
● Speech synthesis system written in Java
● Developed at Carnegie Mellon University

11. What can i do?
● Text to speech
● Speech recognition
● AIR ←→ Phidgets ←→ RFID
● GPS → AIR
● AIR ←→ Wii remote

12. RoomWare Server
● Interaction with sourroundings
● Communications between objects
● Connect any device to any other device
● Devices can be anything
● Messages based
● Bi-directional sockets
● Event/Request XML actions
● Java, Flash, PHP, C#, Python

13. Action
People Places
Room
Ware
Action Action
Data

14. AS & Java libs
● nl.socialmonkey.api.roomwareproject
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● Communicator_Http-1.0.2.jar
● Communicator_Console-1.0.1.jar
● Communicator_Post-0.0.1.jar
● Module_Bluetooth-1.0.1.jar
● Module_Fake-1.0.1.jar
● Module_RoomWare-0.0.1.jar
● RoomWare_Server-1.0.2.jar

15. Additional lib:
bluecove-2.1.0.jar
● Java library for Bluetooth
● Windows XP, Intel Mac, Linux
● Developed by Intel Research

16. What can i do?
● Connect with Bluetooth, QR-Code, RFID-Tags
● Remote control (Android Phone) → AIR
● Location based services (Shop, Offices)
● Access to local informations (Museum, Trafic)
● Games

17. Facebook API
● Get Developer Key
● Fuck F*#! because no/bad examples/doc's
● Limited call's
● Facebook_library_with_AIRConnect_v3.3_flex.swc

18. How it works together
● Start RoomWare JavaServer → run/bin
● Start VoiceRunner.java
● Facebook → login
● Facebook → getGroupMembers "SFUG"
● RoomWare → connect to server port 4040
● RoomWare → getDevices
● Device name → Query fbGroupMembers
● MerAPI → Java Speech
● RoomWare → checkRemovals

19. Troubleshooting
● Mac OSX 10.6 → Java SE6 32-Bit vs. 64-Bit
● Setup Java Project in Eclipse
● The right .jar versions
● bin/run → chmod 664
● roomware.conf

20. Some more infos
before you start...

21. Resources
Roomware www.roomwareproject.org
AS3 RoomWare Lib code.google.com/p/
as3roomwareprojectlib/
MerAPI www.merapiproject.net
FaceBook AS3 API code.google.com/p/facebook-
actionscript-api/
FreeTTs sourceforge.net/projects/freetts/
Eclipse Java Setup blog.everythingflex.com/2009/05/30/
how-to-checkout-merapi-examples/
BlueCove code.google.com/p/bluecove/

22. Thanks!
al@dctrl.ch, www.dctrl.ch
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