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Blocks application notes provide inspiration and make it easy to try out ideas, hone your Blocks skills and learn best practices. Many application note come with a complete set of files that includes everything you need to run it on your Blocks system (see below for installation notes).

Many application notes come with a complete set of files (commonly referred to as a "Blocks root") for running the application on your own blocks server. To use such a Blocks root, follow these instructions.

• Audio guide application
• A remote control switching Blocks on Spots
• A before/after comparision
• Create a staggered slideshow over multiple screens using a task
• Subtitles and Closed Captions
• Camera Block Integration
• Simple Quiz

Application notes and examples for learning about the Visitor Data Tracking capabilities introduced in Blocks version 6.

You server must have the additional Visitor Data Collection license to use these application notes.

• Collecting Basic Data using Visitors Phone
• Collecting Data using RFID/NFC Tokens

• Displaying a clickable 3D object
• Creating a 360 degree panorama
• Use Deep Zoom as a custom HTML web block
• 3D or interactive content based on Unity

• Use live video in Blocks
• Network camera over RTSP

• Art-Net/DMX512 Control
• Use Nexmosphere sensors and actuators
• Use a linear position sensor to move content
• Remote control of a PC from Blocks
• Zigbee Lights and Power Switches
• Controlling Arduino pins using Firmata protocol
• Connecting an Arduino microcontroller with encoder to Blocks
• Control Netio Power Distribution Units using MQTT
• Control Netio Power Distribution Units using Modbus/TCP
• Control a Siemens LOGO! PLC with Modbus/TCP
• Use Flic2 wireless buttons as a triggers in Blocks

• Displaying an External Data Source using Feeds
• Use a Google Calendar as a feed in Blocks
• Rendering a local CSV file data using a Feed
• Use a text file to provide some text data to Blocks
• Rendering a Google spreadsheet data using a Feed
• Populate a slideshow with images in a folder
• Use RSS feeds as source in Blocks

• Synchronize a task to the progress of a video
• Clocks and Time-keeping
• World clock
• Animated wall clock
• A basic countdown timer
• Sun Clock and Sun Angle

• Listing Detailed Spot Information
• Monitoring Display Spot Connections
• Partial password protection
• Send the server logs over email

• Integrating a Spot with a custom web page
• Basic Interaction from a Custom Web Page
• Advanced Interaction from a Custom Web Page
• A clickable, interactive map
• Take a photo and publish to a Spot
• Scribble on one Spot then publish to another Spot
• Adding hand-drawn elements to a photo
• Text Ticker
• 3D or interactive content based on Unity

• Set up the Zebra EC30 as audio guide device
• Controlling devices with RS232/RS485 serial data with Moxa Nport
• Controlling a device by emulating an IR remote
• Postion tracking sensor with bar code reader
• Publishing an in-house Blocks server on the Internet
• ISAAC A/V monitoring system integration

• Custom Styling with CSS
• Adding a "Ken Burns" effect to a slideshow