27: You Can Sit Next to a Black Hole

Jake and Ben tell us all about their experiences using Bluetooth LE beacons as part of their most recent joint project: how beacons work, triangulating a user’s location by laying out a series of beacons, plus iOS7’s iBeacon API, and issues you’ll run into in real world usage. In the meantime, Jelly updates everyone on how GIFwrapped is doing, and we discuss a bunch of completely unrelated topics, like geoblocks, House of Cards and fake phone numbers.

Show notes:

• Discovering Art with iBeacons (Stripy Sock)
• Enso Locate by Art Processors
• Estimote Beacons
• Location and Maps Programming Guide: Region Monitoring and iBeacon