{"id":1814,"date":"2015-02-12T12:16:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T12:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2015-02-12T12:16:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T12:16:42","slug":"february-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/february-report\/","title":{"rendered":"February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A list of what we&#8217;re up to at the moment:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; We&#8217;re working with a very large client at the moment helping them plan and find\u00a0partners for\u00a0a hardware project. Hopefully more on that in the next months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; We&#8217;ve been giving\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sevenleague.co.uk\/\">SevenLeague<\/a>\u00a0a bit of advice on an exciting project they have for one of their sports clients.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Starting soon we&#8217;ll be helping\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wintec.ac.nz\/research\/Pages\/index.aspx\">Wintec Research Institute<\/a>\u00a0build a presence in the UK over the next six months. They have fantastic research facilities around smart farming, wearables &amp; human performance and have 8 smart homes equipped with over 800 sensors each so an exciting opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; We started a monthly paid for #iot trends report called <a href=\"http:\/\/theimaginaryunit.com\/\">The Imaginary Unit<\/a> with Peter Bihr and Patrick Tanguay. This should help\u00a0some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/business\/senior-execs-poor-understanding-iot-gartner-survey-2080971.html?\">those\u00a0senior executives struggling to understand the internet of things<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; We&#8217;ll be delivering the third <a href=\"http:\/\/iotangels.com\">IOTAngels Master<\/a> Class hosted at the <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.catapult.org.uk\/\">Digital Catapult<\/a> next week. These tend to be really small intimate events, but investors appreciate the attention and time to have a good conversation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cards-17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1815\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cards-17.jpg\" alt=\"Cards 17\" width=\"640\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cards-17.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cards-17-300x282.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; We&#8217;re helping <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spongefile\">Tina Aspiala<\/a>\u00a0run a workshop for <a href=\"https:\/\/know-cards.myshopify.com\">Know Cards<\/a> in London on March 6th. This is a really exciting tool for planning #iot projects before you start buying things. \u00a0Come along, it&#8217;s $95 and includes a Complete Pack which is worth $149.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/iwd_header_2015.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/iwd_header_2015.png\" alt=\"iwd_header_2015\" width=\"690\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/iwd_header_2015.png 690w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/iwd_header_2015-300x80.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; We&#8217;ve also been organising the third edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/techcityiwd.com\">Tech City International Women&#8217;s Day Showcase<\/a>. It&#8217;s a fundraising event for a Hackney charity that helps women and children in abusive homes. We&#8217;ll be showcasing women&#8217;s work in technology and the creative industies, so come along and get a ticket! We&#8217;ll feed you well. We&#8217;re also looking for sponsors to cover the cost of doing the event, so shout if you&#8217;d like to help!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dj_t-shirt_undercover_white.png\" alt=\"dj_t-shirt_undercover_white\" width=\"508\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dj_t-shirt_undercover_white.png 508w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dj_t-shirt_undercover_white-300x264.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; As a bit of fun as as I&#8217;m a bit of a jive aficionado (a very easy partner dance from the 1950s) \u00a0I designed a t-shirt for <a href=\"http:\/\/diamond-jive.myshopify.com\/\">Diamond Jive<\/a>, the group running classes and club nights I&#8217;ve been attending.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Finally the first batch of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodnightlamp.com\">Good Night Lamp<\/a> is slowly coming together and I&#8217;ll be hand-assembling them in late Feb to deliver to our first customers across the UK &amp; Europe for the first week of March.\u00a0After 10 years on this project, this is very exciting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gnl_2015_100set.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gnl_2015_100set.jpg\" alt=\"gnl_2015_100set\" width=\"792\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gnl_2015_100set.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gnl_2015_100set-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A list of what we&#8217;re up to at the moment: &#8211; We&#8217;re working with a very large client at the moment helping them plan and find\u00a0partners for\u00a0a hardware project. Hopefully more on that in the next months. &#8211; We&#8217;ve been giving\u00a0SevenLeague\u00a0a bit of advice on an exciting project they have for one of their sports&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/february-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">February<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"What I'm up to in february #iot","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-of-things","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-tg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}