The power of unexpected APIs
summary
Demonstrates repurposing closed and sensor APIs: a 16‑camera tracking API streams player positions 25 times a second over UDP to iPhones, converted into a head‑tracked 3D sound landscape for blind football (demo match played under internal Wi‑Fi). Shows other hacks: train car weight sensors exposed to indicate seat availability, and a bespoke energy API feeding an app for 10,000 households that yields a measured 12% reduction in consumption.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:15Tracking football players
- 3:08Blind football 3D sound
- 8:58Demo: blind football match
- 12:20Unexpected APIs examples
- 14:29Energy API Sweden experiment
- 17:23Hardware control APIs
- 19:11Exploring sensors
- 20:56Q&A
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