I’ve decided to take on a new role and gain experience in a new area for me. I’m going to be the R&D manager for an initiative we announced last December that’s growing at a rapid pace. Its a great opportunity to shape something still in its infancy and get more direct hands on strategy […]
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 […]
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 […]