Improvisation Blog: Education and the real-time web: Nodejs everywhere?

Improvisation Blog: Education and the real-time web: Nodejs everywhere?:


"I'm doing some work with Nodejs and Websockets for the iTEC (http://itec.eun.org) project at the moment. The plan is to create something which will enable us to create widget-driven activities which animate lessons by giving the children controllers which can affect physical things in the environment of the classroom (integrating widgets and physical stuff is a requirement of the project).
Doing physical things is fairly straightforward - we're experimenting with a number of things including Arduino and its clones (including JeeNode - see http://jeelabs.org/). But the real challenge is the communication between widget-based controllers and the hardware."

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