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...
Firefly V2
Firefly Version 2 is in the works with a thanks to a grant from Ontario Art Council! Mark Stephenson, Michael Grant and I are designing this project from the ground up. We...
FireFly: Wearable Social Pendant
Firefly is a social pendant that reacts to social situations and human contact (Firefly development timeline). It creates visualizations of human group-social dynamic in real time using color. Both for...
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...
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...
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...
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