Open Source Placecasting

So we've been 'gopping', been chased by 'fanny' and otherwise annoyed several Bristolians with our various bluetooth shenanigans but whats been powering all this mischief research? While we get to grips with the exact requirements we need from a bluetooth transmitter we've been using some open source software called Consola (http://www.consola.org/ ) to turn our lovely macbooks into full blown bluetooth pushing ninjas. There are plenty of good things about Consola (nice UI, lots of features such as blacklisting), a couple of bad ones (it crashes occasionally) but the best thing about it is it's Open Source. This doesn't just mean its free, but rather that the developers have chosen to share the source code - inviting other developers from around the world to add to it and generally improve the product. This is great in the case of Consola as the original developers no longer seem to be around, so we're still able to fix bugs and add new features ourselves.