<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Looks great! Coincidentally I just did a badge project, though w/ much less functionality, so I'm super curious to see this develop.<br><br></div>What kind of power source will these use?<br>
<br>Looking forward to seeing/hearing more!<br><br></div>Cheers,<br></div>Andrew<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:59:56 -0400<br>
From: Mark Stephenson <<a href="mailto:mark.b.stephenson@gmail.com">mark.b.stephenson@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: Lab <<a href="mailto:lab@artengine.ca">lab@artengine.ca</a>><br>
Subject: [Lab] Firefly Pendant Project<br>
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Hi, in the spirit of the what are you working on thread I thought I'd<br>
share a project that fellow ArtEngine ModLab'ers Michael Grant, Darcy<br>
White and I (Mark) have been working away on over the last few months.<br>
Some of you may remember talk about wanting to do a more ambitious<br>
badge project after the simple illuminated ones made last year for<br>
Nuit Blanche. Well that is what we're working towards, but it's<br>
evolved since.<br>
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We're calling the project Firefly and it's under the banner of<br>
Lumipendant as we may do some more of these projects should this one<br>
work out well.<br>
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The Firefly project is a larger scale social one where participants<br>
wear a pendant that can interact with other pendants. Each pendant has<br>
IR and LED lights on them and they act like little fireflies.<br>
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There is a game in all this it's not just a light show. Can you keep<br>
your fireflies alive? will they flourish into a frenzy of colour or<br>
wither away over the course of the event. Meet other badges, shake<br>
your badge awake, checkin and stations unlock colours and behaviors.<br>
We even hope to have a disruptive element. Afterwards you sync your<br>
pendant and find out what kind of social firefly you were.<br>
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Out intent is to open source the software and possibly the hardware as<br>
well. It's all built on Arduino, in fact the badges are completely<br>
programable and hackable afterwards which is part of the overall<br>
intent. We want to help inspire and foster more makers in Ottawa.<br>
<br>
We're now shifting towards exposing more and more of the project to<br>
the community. We still have lots of work to do and want to share and<br>
solicit help wherever we can.<br>
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We submitted this to Nuit Blanche Ottawa+Gatineau this year so if it's<br>
approved we'll be looking for some sponsorship to help cover the<br>
components costs so we can distribute pendants and little to no cost.<br>
Please let me know if you have some ideas.<br>
<br>
Here is a link to our brand new Lumipendant places, please go, visit<br>
and pass along some Ottawa maker love:<br>
<br>
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Lumipendant" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/Lumipendant</a><br>
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Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/lumipendant" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/lumipendant</a><br>
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Web site: <a href="http://www.lumipendant.com/" target="_blank">http://www.lumipendant.com/</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
Mark<br>
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Mark Stephenson<br>
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