Forever.fm: Infinite Beat-matched Music

November 17, 2012 By 15 Comments

Forever.fm is [Peter]‘s combination of SoundCloud and The Echo Nest that plays a continuous stream of beat-matched music. The result is a web radio station that just keeps playing.

[Peter] provided a great write up on how he built the app. The server side is Python, using the Tornado web server and Tornadio2 + Socket.IO for handling live … Read the rest

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Accelerometer-based game control using an iOS device courtesy of HTML5

March 26, 2012 By 14 Comments

This game of Space Invaders is played by tilting your iPhone to the left or right. It’s a demonstration of HTML5 used to link devices in-browser. The only setup that’s required is for the base device to load up a webpage, then the control device scans a QR code (or just types in a link) to connect with the … Read the rest

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