20th Jul 2019

Trade Show Badges

Doug and I are working on these cool badges for the Makerfaire. Here are a few experiments. Lots more to come. They will form an infrared network and exchange graphics...

06th Oct 2018

Heart Beat

Heartbeat is a wearable electronic pendant. The project (Avatar) will be a collection of pendants. I’m working on some interactive effects and these prototypes are a platform for that. I’m...

15th Sep 2013

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...

30th Aug 2013

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...

29th Aug 2013

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...

29th Aug 2013

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...

29th Aug 2013

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...

19th Aug 2013

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...

09th Aug 2013

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...

05th Aug 2013

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...

30th Jul 2013

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...

21st Jul 2013

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...

20th Jul 2013

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...

19th Jun 2013

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...

06th May 2013

Hey Kids! Red’s Not a Primary!

That’s right! It’s a primary for light but not paint. The red, green and blue circles (below and right) show primary colors for your eye. The additive RGB system reflects human physiology since we have receptors...

04th Apr 2013

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...

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