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 […]
Favela Painting UK
A good friend recently reminded me of something we did back in 2010. Inspired by Favela Painting we put together some mock-ups of what some of the drab buildings in my home town of Swindon could look like, given an industrial scale make over. It seemed like a bit of fun at the time and he […]
Secure Situational Awareness
Situational Awareness is all the rage. Its being driven by advances in both display technologies and big data/predictive analytics/data science, etc. My team and I built this customer demonstration at HP Labs showing how we can use NFC based authentication to display and redact information from a situational awareness environment based on knowledge of the […]
LEDs controlled by an Arduino and Android
As part of something bigger I’m looking to build I put together a prototype of a WS2812B LED strip being controlled with an Arduino and an Android App via Bluetooth. If you haven’t come across these WS2812B LEDs, they are cheap as chips, easy to program via a micro controller and can produce 16 million […]
Swindon Viewpoint
Swindon Viewpoint is Swindon and Britain’s original community media service with a unique history and special place in Britain’s media story. Its been called the ultimate digital diary of local life and culture. In 2007 we took a leap and began moving the vast collection online. I developed an online presence around the Drupal content management system […]
Popeye and Olive Oil
In case there was any doubt where my interest with the intersection of media and technology originates from, here is an early film that my Dad recently dug up. He made it with me back in 1981 at the film workshop he ran at the time. I still remember being told off for pressing the […]
Home Energy Management from HP
In 2011 I managed the Advanced Development of a platform to deliver rich, analytics driven insights to domestic energy consumers. We trialled a number of key innovations in house holds across the San Francisco Bay Area. Including home dashboards, gamification of rewards for optimised behaviours, and disaggregation of energy sinks from a single signal. Homes […]
SE3D – Animation in the Cloud
In 2004 I was fortunate to work the community engagement aspects of this ambitious showcase collaboration project at HP Labs. We put together a community of 3D animators, and enabled them to use a flexible, on-demand, datacentre scale cloud rendering service from the comfort of their own home. This was something that had never been […]
HP Labs Government Grade Cloud Theatre
We launched a major project today to showcase an immersive government grade cloud management experience. I led the development of this from concept to delivery and its awesome. We run our visitors through a scenario developed to highlight some of the issues and trade-offs public sector and large private sector customers will face as they […]
Digital Video Workflow for the Encounters Film Festival
In 2005 HP Labs had formed a great relationship with the Bristol Encounters Film Festival. They approaches us to help re-imagine their video library for an upcoming event. Imagine a room full of tapes on shelves where festival delegates could take a stack of tapes to view on an old style VHS player. Whilst this […]