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How to make a wind chime door bell

Our doorbell was already connected to the Internet via an Arduino, but we couldn't stand the sound it made. We needed a warmer sound, a sound that didn't make us want to…

Integrera Swish i egna tjänster

I'll write this in Swedish because it only applies to Swedes. Swish är ju en väldigt lyckad tjänst. Den har, liksom t.ex. Uber, förändrat ett beteende. Över 2 millioner svenskar använder…

Why doesn’t all my Instagram embeds in WordPress look the same?

Well, Instagram changed the response on their Oembed service sometime in December 2014. And WordPress caches all oembed lookups the first time they're displayed. This means that all of your little…

An API for Faking Swedish user details

Lorem Ipsum is great for generating place holder texts, and Placehold.it (and our own Place-A-Pet!) does the same job for images. Sometimes though, you need to create fake Swedish users. Say…

Let Slack nag you that it’s time to return that commuter pass

Another week, and yet another Slack integration here at Earth People. This time we've added an integration to the public transport system here in Stockholm. At Earth People we like to…

Let Slack tell you what songs are currently playing in the office

At Earth People, there's always music in the air (and the birds sing a pretty song). Most of the stuff we play is fairly unknown to most of us, and…

Making headless screengrabs without PhantomJS

Ok this can be done with PhantomJS and it is probably better/simpler/etc. But if you, for any reason, can't use PhantomJS to make screengrabs, here's an over complicated alternative we…

Slack integrations so far; deploys, doorbells, reddit and lunch menus

On Earth People, we recently fell in love with Slack (Oh yes that's an affiliate link that will give us both 100 dollar credit). It got us off Skype (which…

Relaying push notifications to your own API

We recently made a campaign for Loka mineral water, where users together reveal the new flavors. This is done by using Snapchat. We send users snaps containing puzzle pieces, and…

Making car sound with web audio synthesis

We've fooled around with web audio synthesizers before, but never in a situation where mp3s would not also do the job. But in our recent Red Bull Racing game it…