We got up in the middle of the night and hiked half an hour in to a reed bed to see these guys this morning. It was worth the ‘boring’ 30 minute wait to see a 4 year old running around a hide screaming STARLINGS! STARLINGS! with delight as half a million birds exploded in […]
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Tunetable – A Shared Music Discovery Appliance
This is old. I built this back in 2007 originally. Its an interactive music discovery appliance built to operate on a shared interactive surface, such as a table. I may still rebuild it as a mobile app now that tablets are large and ubiquitous enough that it could support something like this. Here is a demo […]
Mendip Re-birth
Here are some photos looking back at the place my son and I have often gone for hikes on Sunday evenings over the past year. Its had quite a dramatic change. The first picture here is taken last January, with added dinosaurs for Will. And here it is how we found it in May […]
Colour Mimicking Lights
Following on from the Bluetooth controlled LEDs I wanted to see if I could get a string of WS2812B lights to react to their environment. I selected the Adafruit TCS34725 colour sensor because a) it was well documented, and I didn’t want to mess around too much. I found some code samples by duct soup […]
ContainerOS Stacking Blocks
I’ve recently started managing a new R&D project at Hewlett Packard Enterprises called ContainerOS. We’re re-imagining a secure operating system optimised for container deployment. It’s a great project! As part of sharing that we are working on something fun and that things can be a little unstable at the beginning of any new project I […]
Railway Town Animations
My Dad (Martin Parry) has just completed a film project he has been incubating for many years called Railway Town. If you like stream trains and films this is the thing for you. Its a fantastic piece of work which the BBC called ‘A Triumph’. It was great to cut my teeth at something new […]
Project Kick-Off Game
So I’ve decided to join a new project as PM for a rotation, its a great opportunity and a brilliant team. They have been together already for a few months now and as things start to come together we need to start prioritising what we can achieve in this great world of possibilities. I wanted […]
Midsummer’s Morning 2016
Neolithic men might not have been able to order home shopping and get live traffic updates, but they didn’t have to suffer this problem either.
Home Made Rockets
Children love rockets. Adults love rockets. So we made some rockets at half term and had a test flight. I was also learning how to use Adobe After Effects at the time so got a bit carried away. Thanks to Public Service Broadcasting for permission to use their music. Hopefully Frank would have approved also. […]
Graphics and Puzzles
As part of a brand new collaboration space we are launching at Hewlett Packard Labs, we wanted to add something to brighten up a dull corridor. I put together this visualisation which has buried in it a secret message. Much of what we do in the Labs is R&D in to computer security, so we […]