Delighted to have the opportunity to speak to Interaction Design and Product Design students at Glasgow School of Art today. Thank you, Inga. The ability to mix code and procedural thinking, with aesthetic consideration and critical awareness, allows students to create interactive virtual and physical artefacts, and gives graduates access to the exciting and innovative […]
Author: @thathollywood
Coder Dojo w/ Rasp Pi
Children working with Python and Rasp Pi to develop a game that tests response time.
Bristol JS – IOT MeetUp
I took my ‘UFO People‘ API talk over to Bristol for their JS MeetUp. Thank you to Adam Butler for inviting me and Just Eat for hosting. It was fun night, superb crowd and great questions. I had a blast! Likely to be on of the last outings for this talk ‘looking at examples of ‘codeless’ […]
Spotify DJ Apron
Adding flavour to the connected kitchen. Stirring, whisking, kneading and rolling. Cooking is fun and messy and best done to your favourite tunes. But changing music with soiled hands just gets your devices dirty. To solve this problem, our team in London turned to e-textiles, conductive thread, interactive fabrics, LED lights and stitched Spotify functionality into an apron.
Making Products – Achieving Goals and Creating Permanence. Part 2
In the first part of this post, I experimented with laser cutting and started down the path to a goal that I had made public at ReasonsTo. To whit, “Document and invest in your products, not just your time.” This in turn had been inspired by a Instagram post from Brendan Dawes , “…finish them they become a […]