30×30″ Painting Robot
I am back onto my painting robot project! The brush will be dipped much like a human would do it. I will add more brushes eventually though. Perhaps three or four....
Nuit Blanche and Firefly Success
The Nuit Blanche 2013 festival was a great success (see Peter Simpson‘s video further down). What a diverse and inspiring experience. I made new friends, had fun and learned a lot. Firefly lit...
Firefly Jacket for Rain #NBFirefly
Firefly will be at Nuit Blanche tonight! There may be sparse showers so Firefly comes with a rain jacket. Here are a couple of shots from testing. . Mark suggested...
Firefly is Here! Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzt!
The following is a quick status report for Firefly. We are very excited to be delivering a swarm of our Firefly creations to the Nuit Blanch Base Camp Party! Thanks...
Big Oil Rooster
My 2013 rooster project is Big Oil Rooster. Its at Atomic Rooster for a month ending on October 13 (vernissage September 17th). Big Oil Rooster drives a thermoelectric powered car powered by tea-lights. I...
FireFly Makes Make
Make Magazine promoted the Ottawa Mini MakerFaire in their Blog yesterday highlighting 3 of the 50 presenters. We were lucky enough to have the FireFly project receive a mention! FireFly...
FireFly Visits Hub Ottawa
FireFly was at HubOttawa at the Hub and Spoke last night which featured presentations from curators of: Nuit Blanche, Ladies Learning Code, Power of the Arts National Forum, Citizens Academy, Soup Ottawa, Ottawa Mini Maker Faire, Pecha Kucha...
FireFly at Atomic
Last night FireFly was at Atomic Rooster. We met up with Adam Davidson. who hosted the event. Lots of people came by specifically to check them out and many other people got to give...
FireFly in Metro News
Mark Stephenson and I were interviewed by Graham Lanktree of Metro yesterday. An article on the FireFly project is in todays Metro news paper. FireFly is a social pendant created by Mark, Michael Grant and...
FireFly is Getting Smarter
We had the pleasure of showing FireFly at the Ottawa Maker Market last Thursday. Lots of data and observations were gathered. We are paying special attention to the interaction between...
FireFly Receives Awesome Ottawa Award
FireFly won the Awesome Ottawa Award! An interview was attempted with FireFly but all we got was “bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt“. FireFly is helping people connect at a party near you. If you’d...
FireFly Debut for Supernova!
FireFly had a great time at the Supernova Party last night. It’s pretty clear that FireFly brings people together and has lit our way to new social ties. I had...
Social Network Theory for Firefly
We’ve been working very hard on the Firefly project. See FireFly in action. FireFly is ready to light your way on your social journey. We’ve had a mention of the...
DIY Electric Motor Assembly
The electric motor project is coming along well. Here’s the latest revision based on 200 turns of 28 gauge wire per side. It’s probably the most powerful one so far. It even...
Electric Motor Gearbox
Here’s another version of the Simple Electric Motor project. I added a 4 stage gearbox to make it more fun and interesting. Each stage has a 4:1 gear ratio. Here are...
Lumipendant
Welcome to the Lumipendant project! It’s a collection of art projects involving interactive wearable pendants for social settings. This is a collaboration between Michael Grant, Mark Stephenson and myself. There is a...
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