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The hack-o-lantern project
Prologue I recently got involved with an organization called Wearhacks. WearHacks is an international non-profit organization headquartered in Montreal, focused on the promotion of innovation and...
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Making-of a hardware product: the Cloister
Prologue A while ago I worked on a project that I called “The anti procrastination box“. The idea was to have a box inside which you could lock down your sources of distraction for a predefined amount...
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L3D Cube visualizations Part 4: depth and color projection with the Kinect
Overview The Kinect is a traditional camera doubled with an Infra Red Camera, enabling it to perceive depth in addition to the color information. Originally sold for Xbox, it is now available for PCs...
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L3D Cube visualizations Part 3: webcam stream projection
Overview The video stream’s frames are divided into 8×8 squares of equal surface. The average RGB values of every pixel in the square is extracted and used to recompose a smaller image. The image is...
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L3D Cube visualizations Part 2: real-time worldwide weather
Overview We will make use of the OpenWeatherMap API to retrieve the temperature from cities around the world and displays the result on the cube. The result is a “real-time” (actually the free API key...
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L3D Cube visualizations Part 1: real-time scatter plot with Thingspeak
Overview Basically a demonstration of the plotting capabilities of the cube. We will retrieve some data from a public thingspeak channel (they correspond to data points posted by a connected barometer...
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Volumetric display and data visualization : 4 animations for the L3DCube
The L3DCube The cube falls into the category of volumetric displays, meaning that it can be used to represent 3 dimensional shapes. It is composed of 8*8*8 512 RGB LEDs, namely the very popular WS2812...
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My first hackathon as a mentor: WHNYC 2015
Truth be told, the first Hackathon I assisted to happened only a month ago in Montreal. It was my fist contact with such an event, and a great experience overall. It’s not often that you find yourself...
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Know when to pee with the ATtiny! (badum tss)
This project was born from a very common problem: our office’s floor is equipped with one bathroom that can’t be seen from every desk. Ensues unnecessary back and forth when someone walks to the...
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Quick Saturday hack – the RGB LED push-button
The context It’s been a long time since my last post and since it’s always difficult to get back at it I will start the year with an easy tutorial. I’m working on a design in which we have incorporated...
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