Today was the last day of Works(Shop) which I’ve been running in my office on most Fridays & Saturdays since end of August. It’s been a very interesting experiment in what the retail experience of consumer internet of things products is about. We went on the road too, showing the products to the British Computing… Continue reading What I learnt from running an internet of things pop-up shop
A very merry internet of things Christmas
It’s that time of the year where people try to connect their Christmas lights to the internet. This used to be a rather maker-based endeavour but it’s taken on new heights with the past year’s corporate interest in the topic. So here are the top 5 connected Christmas lights projects: 1. OpenPicus lets you control… Continue reading A very merry internet of things Christmas
End of year review
1.What did you do in 2013 that you’d never done before? Put all my efforts into one project. 2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? No, pretty much stopped going to the gym in February, but thankfully have been keeping quite well. I’d like to try… Continue reading End of year review
Making, speaking, meeting.
I had lunch last week with some of veterans of the now defunct Special Interest Group on the Internet of Things and we were discussing the taxonomy problems around hackdays, hackathons and other similar events. I drew something inelegant on my sketchbook which I thought I’d cleanup and share. In the case of this diagram… Continue reading Making, speaking, meeting.
One of 100 nice people in a nice part of town.
I was included in the top 100 Tech City Insider Class of 2013 (providing me with an up to date picture too). That’s nice of them.
Building the internet of things near you.
I’ve been asked to give a talk at BES Forum in Kuala Lumpur and in addition to my slides I thought I’d try to blog about this one too. It’s an educational supplier conference, one where the British Council and UKTI boost the UK’s presence in education in Asia. It’s hard to think of these… Continue reading Building the internet of things near you.
The Internet of Things in Parliament
Before I dashed off to Sydney I was invited by John Riley to organise an internet of things showcase as part of the Parliament and the Internet day, a yearly conference. We ended up showcasing a small selection of my pop-up shop the Good Night Lamp, the AirQualityEgg Makie dolls, a RepRap and John invited… Continue reading The Internet of Things in Parliament
Growing the energy side of the internet of things
Last July, I met Sam Lowe at the Internet of Things meetup I organise for Xively. He was working at British Gas at the time and we got talking. British Gas has a product development group called Connected Homes (they just launched their own #iot product called Hive) who were interested in organising a hackday but… Continue reading Growing the energy side of the internet of things
The Inventor, the Designer and the Maker: 3 different ways of getting things done.
I’m giving a talk at the Centre of Fine Arts in Sydney today and last night worked on 3 ways of visualising the evolution of making in the past 10 years with the emmergence of Arduino and crowd funding particularly. I’m trying to work this into a small publication on the subject so really work… Continue reading The Inventor, the Designer and the Maker: 3 different ways of getting things done.
Web Directions 2013
I’m sat in the darkest room since the LIFT conference days and I think the first time I’ve spoken at a proper web conference in some years. It’s kind of weird. Lots of talks about front end development techniques I have never heard of which I guess is a sign I’m hanging out with back… Continue reading Web Directions 2013