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FloorPlay

Adafruit LPD8806 Arduino SPI Pin speed comparison

Posted on 4th August 2012 by Danny

Sorry for the lack of updates! I’ve been told that I should add more videos, so here’s a quick one showing the speed difference between…

FloorPlay

Arduino Wireless

Posted on 24th July 2012 by Danny

As well as working with the CueCats over the weekend I also started preparing my Arduino units for when I have access to a wireless…

FloorPlay

Working with Cuecats

Posted on 22nd July 2012 by Danny

In order for participants to play on the interactive floor surface they first need to collect game-time by climbing the stairs in the building.  I’m…

FloorPlay

Counting Human Activity with an Arduino, part 2 (with code!)

Posted on 21st July 2012 by Danny

A couple of  weeks back I posted part 1– where I made a comparison of the different types of sensors I could use to count…

FloorPlay

Counting Activity

Posted on 19th July 2012 by Danny

As part of my MSc project I am measuring human activity on the stairwells in the MPEB, I’ve made some Arduino based people-counters which are…

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Testing Counters and London Rainbow

Posted on 11th July 2012 by Danny

Yesterday I took my arduino PIR counter prototypes upto London for some testing in the building where they will be used, I’ve now got two…

FloorPlay

36 Floor LED Devices lit up

Posted on 10th July 2012 by Danny

Here’s my supervisor, Jon Bird, with one square’s worth (36 units) of the LED units for the floor display lit up in red! Hopefully by…

FloorPlay

Thermitracks are tracking!

Posted on 9th July 2012 by Danny

Last week we got the four Thermitrack Cameras talking to openFrameworks on the Mac, we’ve got the cameras outputting point data over serial and we’re…

FloorPlay

Counting Human Activity with an Arduino, Part 1

Posted on 9th July 20122nd November 2019 by Danny

The most important part of my MSc project is the study, part of this will be a simple quantitative measurement of stairs activity before and…

FloorPlay

Thermitrack Cameras, Part 1

Posted on 2nd July 20124th January 2020 by Danny

In order to track participants movements across the interactive surface we’re using Thermitrack thermal image tracking cameras, mounted on the ceiling above.  Although not an…

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Hello. I'm (Dr.) Danny. I'm an Assistant Professor in The School of Design, at Northumbria University.

My research interests lie in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), I'm interested in how technology can support people's health and wellbeing - see more details on my research page. Outside of work I like to take photographs and ride bikes.

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