[Noisebridge-discuss] Giant space explosion detector

[d p chang]

"Dr. Jesus" <j at hug.gs> writes:

> 1) Start a little business with someone with more ObjC-fu than me to
> develop an app to be sold on the iPhone Store which provides giant
> space explosion warnings.  This blocks on iPhone OS 3.0 and its push
> stuff.  I already have the $99 developer account and I registered
> giantspaceexplosions.com.  NASA has given the thumbs up to commercial
> use of the data subject to a few conditions (don't use their logo in
> certain ways), but I think it would be nice to donate some profits to
> them.  Basically, any of you hit by the downturn who know iPhone
> programming (or can learn it) can turn your time into money by doing
> this.  I'll even lend you macs and iPod touches and things if you can
> prove you're serious.

it is pretty easy to pick up just enough nextstep^Wcocoa to do 'useful'
stuff.

  http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php

<sigh> i never got around to taking 193e back in the day.

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