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How to write your own chat dizmo with socket.io

This post is a response to the following question that we have been asked in one form or another: How can a dizmo reach out to connect with 3rd party systems? Or, is there a way that a dizmo can communicate with a server? The short answer is: Dizmo uses Webkit as its basis to […]

Dizmo joins RobotsConf 2014 as official sponsor

This year, dizmo participated at the RobotsConf as official sponsor. Although the conference is called RobotsConf, it is not just about robots, but it is far more comprehensive and covers also subjects like the Internet of Things or even fashion – anything that is touched by the Maker Movement. Dizmo’s booth at the RobotsConf. At […]

The answer to our #competition “how did we do it” edition #1

We asked you in our contest #HowDidWeDoIT, to explain how we could drag a web page from on a tablet onto the table and back again as shown in the video below. The violet Pad projected on the table is shared with the tablet through dizmoLive, which allows real time sharing of one or more […]

Dizmo joins the “DigitalSTROM Developer and Integration Days”

On 3 and 4 December, the digitalSTROM-Alliance held its 5th Developer and Integration Days in Schlieren-Zurich. The subject for the Developer and Integration Days was “integration of own applications into the digitalSTROM-system”, that is how to build system which integrates into the digitalSTROM-system to automate and control a building or a home. Around 50 developers […]

Develop dizmos – part 1: the beginning

This is the starting post of the series of how to become a dizmo developer. As the title says, I have started recently to develop dizmos. I am the head of delivery and a Ruby programmer. Essentially, a dizmo is a HTML page with all its assets concatenated, that is the HTML page is packaged […]

What our users tell us…

Beginning of November we sent out a survey to every single person who has purchased dizmo. We wanted to get general information on how you use dizmo and features you would like to see. Your response was massive and we learned a lot. Thank you all! We learned for example for what you wanted to […]

SRG SSR Hackdays

In the past September, SRG, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, held its first hackathon, the Hackdays, in Zurich. SRG provided the data and interfaces as a basis for the participants to develop and hack together projects and prototypes. The time just flew by in a the open and cooperative atmosphere and the participants took the opportunity […]

Visualizing and controlling IoT with Dizmotics

After the IoT Hackathon, Markus Jung, the head behind the project Dizmotics, presented the finalized “hack” in our offices. As demonstrated in the video below, you can use Dizmotics to switch on a light, connect it to a physical light switch through docking and control switching your lights on and off. Instead of a switch […]

IoT Hackathon at the MIT Media Lab

This year’s Internet of Things conference took place at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, USA and kicked of with a hackathon on Friday 2nd October. The goal for a “hackathoner” was to create a project related to the Internet of Things within 24 hours. Markus providing advise and support. Copyright © 2014 IoT Conference. […]

Photo shoot at the ETH Value Lab – the making of

In July, we had an exciting day at the Value Lab at the ETH Hönggerberg. We invited you to join us and be be photographed by a professional photographer (thomasstoeckli.com) at the Value Lab at the ETH Hönggerberg so that we could develop content for our new website. Thanks to Lukas Peyer, who made it […]