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...
Newsflash: Ottawa Makerfaire = Awesome
Ottawa Mini Makerfaire went off without a hitch thanks to organizers, supporters and makers! There were 4420 people! The Makerfaire was posted on Hackaday. Lumipendent got a mention as well! Other...
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 in Ottawa Citizen
Today’s citizen had an article covering the FireFly project. Working with recycleyourelectronics.ca has been great. It’s a good habit to always review your practices and make sure they are responsible towards the...
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...
CTV Morning Live, Squirrel, Dinky and FireFly
This morning I went on CTV Morning Live with Britta, Olivia and Andrew. Britta presented the Makerfaire this weekend at the Museum of Science. Olivia and Andrew presented their very...
Spool Holder for Wire Winding
This morning I started a batch of Dinky Motor so I will have some for the Ottawa Mini Makerfaire. The kit contains a length of copper wire and I want to...
Dinky Motor at Ottawa Mini Makerfaire
Dinky Motor will be at this Ottawa Mini Makerfaire this year (Aug 31-Sep 1, 10a-5p, free, Science Museum, 1867 St. Laurent)! In fact I just started making up motors which...
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...
Pee-O-Matic 1000
Is your puppy struggling with house training? Don’t worry Pee-O-Matic is here! I made this from cardboard and can’t explain why I feel compelled to post it. Cut it to...
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...
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