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...
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...
TV-B-Gone!
Mark, Michael, Doug and I worked on our wearable electronics project. It will have RGB LEDs, a microcontroller, sensors and infrared communications. Possibilities are endless. Here we are conducting a...
Social Badge
Mark, Michael and I are working on some badges for Nuit Blanche and possibly other events. With my background in social networks and related tools I want to give the...
Billboard Project
The Arduino Mega micro-controller arrived last week so I started to work on the slat controller for the billboard project. I wired up three servos and cooked up few lines...
LED Cube
I’ve been looking at making a large LED cube. That’s LEDs wired up into a three dimensional display. Here’s an example: It’s pretty clear it would take a lot of...
Lava Light
I have this cool lava light designed by Michael. I’ve interested in exploring light so today I decided to assemble it. Wow! Instant Christmas. I didn’t really expect that but...
Billboard Thoughts
I’m collaborating with my friend Raven. We’re still at the drawing board but we’ve talked about those billboards that change images using rotating triangles. It’s a cool way to incorporate...
CNC Wire Bender
At the beginning of this life-phase of making things I attempted to make a CNC 3D wire bender. It would eventually make pre-bent landing gear for my simple model airplane...
Little Dipper Painting Machine
I’ve been on a course on high speed reading for the past three days so I’m just getting back to the Little Dipper project. Stepper Motors These motors are out...
Painting Robot Lives!
Little Dipper is now outfitted with shiny new linear bearings. I was a little silly to try to make it work with the junked up bearings from scanners (in retrospect)....
Another Painting Robot
I’ve got parts on order for a 24″ x 24″ painting robot. Today I decided to make a smaller painting robot out of some found junk since I’m still waiting...
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