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Fusion Radar: April 2, 2014

April 2nd, 2014 - by marissa - Salt Lake City, Utah

Keeping up with technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. Fusion Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Agency Fusion.

RoomScan

RoomScan is a new app by Locometric that can produce an accurate floor plan of any room in less than 30 seconds. Users just walk around the room, touching their phone briefly to each wall. RoomScan uses the iPhone’s sensors to create a drawing of the room, accurate within 6 inches. The app also includes the ability to add doors and windows to the generated floor plan.

RoomScan

Linux Commands

This guidebook is an extensive reference list that sorts and explains Linux commands. While it’s designed to help those who are trying to learn Linux for the first time, it’s also a great Linux refresher. The categories are fairly broad, with titles like “System,” “Hardware,” and “Network,” and each one of the commands listed links to a more detailed article about that particular command.

Linux Commands

Wolfram Language Code Gallery

We mentioned the knowledge-based Wolfram Language a few posts back. It’s been growing in both size and popularity, and now its creator has released a language code gallery with examples of what  Wolfram can do. This gallery includes a variety of projects–from mapping volcanic ash cloud advisories to making a Hipstamatic filter–that are all created using the Wolfram Language.

Wolfram Language Code Gallery

Foldscope

Foldscope is a new, economical microscope that is printed-and-folded from a single flat sheet of paper. Not only is it cheap to make (costing less than $1 in parts), but it also is quite powerful: the Foldscope provides over 2,000X magnification. Its creators, a team of Stanford University scientists, are hoping that the low cost and durability of Foldscope will help revolutionize medicine in third-world countries.

Foldscope

Serve

Serve is a small web server and rapid prototyping framework for building web apps and simple websites. This open-source, Rack-based project can use a variety of languages to create these sites, including HTML, ERB,  Markdown, and others. It builds static or dynamic sites, and has helper methods that can simplify complex logic.

Serve

PsySH

PsySH is an interactive, open source PHP REPL that combines a runtime developer console with an interactive debugger. PsySH differentiates itself from other runtime developer consoles by including features like supporting readline, listing sets of defined classes/function/constants, and showing the source code of any function available to the current environment.

PsySH

Down For Everyone or Just Me?

This is a simple but useful tool that can let you know if the problems you’re experiencing with a particular site are happening everywhere, or just on your computer. You just submit the site address, and Down For Everyone quickly generates a site report that tells you what you need to know.

Down For Everyone or Just Me?

Mailparser.io

Mailparser.io is a fast, lightweight email parser that automatically processes incoming emails, then extracts and converts their content into easy-to-handle data. You can download the parsed data as a spreadsheet, send it to your CRM, or send it via webhooks.

Mailparser.io

Slick

Slick is a great tool you can use to build just about any kind of carousel you need.

Slick

The NASA Z-2 Suit

NASA has been working on the construction of their newest spacesuit: the Z-2 Suit. And now that they have most of the technical details figured out, they want to hear your opinion on what it should look like. They’ve released 3 different designs and have asked people to vote for their favorite; the winning design will become the new look for NASA astronauts.

The NASA Z-2 Suit