Moving Milan’s ears, to activate a PHP script

As I said in my previous (first) post, Milan is a Nabaztag wifi bunny made of plastic — something like the Ambient Devices Orb. Unlike the Orb however — and more like a bunny rabbit — he has ears that move.

They have little motors, allowing Milan to move his ears when a new message arrives from the nabaztag.com server. More interestingly though, they have sensors which can tell if I have moved the ears by hand, how far I’ve moved them, and in which direction. I could move the right ear back as far is it will go, and the left ear as far forward as it goes, for example. Milan will then send a quick message to the nabaztag.com server saying “my ears have moved. The left one is at position x, and the right one is at position y.” With the API, I can easily get a hold of that information and use it to run some code on a server if I want to.

Here’s an example PHP script which will change the background color of a webpage depending on the position of the rabbit’s ears:

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//print_r($ears);

// Latest ear position reported by API
$posright = $ears[0][0];
$posleft = $ears[0][1];

?>

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<h1>Current Ear Positions</h1>
<h2>Left Ear</h2>
<h2>Right Ear</h2>
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Try this: Move the ears and then reload this page.</blockquote>
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<h1><a href="http://gettingtoknowmilan.wordpress.com/2006/03/01/hello-world/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Nabaztag wifi bunny introduction">Nabaztag wifi bunny introduction</a></h1>

<div class='snap_preview'><p>Hello and welcome to this, my first post, on my new blog, <em>getting to know milan</em>. A few weeks ago some friends bought a <a href="http://nabaztag.com/">Nabaztag</a> wifi rabbit for me and my girlfriend for our birthdays (which are just a week apart).</p>
<p>It’s like the Orb made by Ambient Devices, except that it works everywhere you can get a wifi connection, plus it looks like a white plastic bunny rabbit. Besides having ears that move and lights that flash, it also plays midi audio and even does text-to-speech in English and French (and sometimes a mix of the two!). You can send it text messages, messages via the web, or via email.</p>
<p>What makes the Nabaztag — mine is called <em>Milan</em> — most interesting is the easy to use API. And that’s what this blog will be all about. I intend to learn and play with the API in the coming weeks — making Milan do stuff, and seeing if Milan can make other things do stuff (you can move his ears, and he’ll send a message to the nabaztag.com server with their new position).</p>
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