The Expanso Football

I built a Bacalhau-powered distributed compute cluster into a briefcase for TechCrunch Disrupt - and I did it in 36 hours!

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AWS, IPv6, and Pain

AWS introduced a tax on IPv4 usage for AWS services, and did nothing to help people move to IPv6. I took exception that that.

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Retro HUD Web App

Map apps have gotten boring. I thought it would be fun to inject some 90's video game chaos into the field

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Halloween Hologram

How best to scare my neighbours for Halloween? Why, with a Halloween hologram featuring yours truly, a Raspberry Pi, and Tensorflow PoseNet.js, of course!

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Hello, Quantum World.

What can you do with a quantum computer? I picked up a text book and learned how to program them so I could teach people how to generate random numbers with a real quantum system

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End-to-end Encrypted Messaging w. MQTT

Have you ever wanted to learn how to build your own super-secret encrypted messaging system? You have? Well, do I have a workshop for you!

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Choirless

Along with Matt Hamilton and Glynn Bird, I co-created Choirless - a web platform that enabled people in locked-down communities to still sing and perform with each other online (but without all of that latency you get with Zoom calls)

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What Is...? Video Series

What Is...? Is a short video series I conceived of and produced (with the help of my IBM colleagues) that aimed to teach people about bleeding edge technologies in less than 90 seconds

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Makers4TheNHS

During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I co-founded and became the lead co-ordinator of Makers4TheNHS - A group of 70 makers across the UK working together to create 7000 PPE visors with our personal 3D printers.

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Code the Classics - Volume 1

Working alongside Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton, I contributed to the game code for Code The Classics Vol. 1

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The London DevRel Salon

I co-founded the London chapter of the DevRel Salon community - a monthly meetup for Developer Advocates across London to come together to share knowledge and stories.

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OpenWhisk Dependency Compiler

I felt compiling dependencies for OpenWhisk functions was needlessly complex, so I built a serverless functions that compiled your serverless functions for you!

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Machine Learning with MiniShift

I wrote the Machine Learning with Minishift workshop which taught developers how to train and deploy machine learning models to detect handwritten numerals at scale with OpenShift. It's since been run in cities across the world.

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AI JavaScript London

I became a co-organiser of AI JavaScript London - a community of JavaScript developers passionate about AI.

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Serverless Days London 2019

I spoke at Serverless Days London about Instaframe, my Watson AI + Serverless powered digital photo frame

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Girls Who Change The World

I spent 6 weeks mentoring young women trying to change the world with technology as part of a Disney/Marvel/IBM collaboration.

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Conan or Colbert?

For the University of Bristol's Data Week festival, I presented a workshop on building neural networks for audio classification - specifically: is it Conan or Colbert?

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BarCamp London 11

After a 5 year hiatus, I helped relaunch BarCamp London at the University of Law in London.

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GlowOrb Emulator

Andy Stanford-Clark's GlowOrbs are a great piece of kit for prototyping with the IoT, but you might not always have one to hand, so I built and emulator for macOS

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Instaframe

For Christmas 2018, I made my mum an AI-powered photo frame that would filter my Instagram feed to show her only photos of her Grandkids.

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LNUG

I became one of the new co-organisers for the London Node User Group.

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Bottomless Hard Drive

Is it possible to create an infinite capacity hard drive with object storage? Let's find out!

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AI-powered Word Counter

I speak a little fast, so I made something to help me slow down - an AI-driven word counter that changes color when I speak too quickly.

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W3ID SSO Middleware

It bothered me that it could take days to secure an application with IBM's SSO systems. So I made some middleware to shorten it to minutes.

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Node-RED Web Components

I made some web components to make integrating web APIs with Node-RED even easier!

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Node-RED Bitio Wrapper

I needed to use a Micro:bit with Node-red, so I wrote a node-red wrapper for David Whale's Bitio library

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Image Mitosis

I created a serverless function that would divide images in half again, and again, and again, and...

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Extract Keyframes

A Node.js module to extract only the keyframes from a video file

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Web Summit 2017

I went to Lisbon, Portugal to man the IBM booth at Web Summit 2017. I got to talk about all the IoT goodies IBM has for developers to play with

Wired NextGen

I was invited to demonstrate some of the instruments I had invented for BuzzJam

Joined IBM

I became a Developer Advocate on IBMs London City Team.

FT TTS Articles

Digiday published a piece on some of the work I did converting FT articles into audio versions

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Let's Make Connections!

I helped make the FT Labs voice-driven Google Home game 'Make Connections'

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Super Skills Book

I was a Technical Editor for Elizabeth Tweedale's book teaching children how to make things with Python

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Text AV Event NYC

I was invited to NYC to talk about creating the FT Labs Transcription Service. I couldn't make it in person, so I sent a video instead

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Connected FT

For my 20% time, I wrote an app that would let users share FT content across their devices with the Web Push API

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BuzzJam Short Film

I did another BuzzJam, but this time the whole thing was filmed!

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Automatically Generated Audio Articles

I built the systems to generate audio versions of FT articles, and one of the journalists noticed...

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Google I/O 2017

The progressive web app I made (Listen to the FT) got a small shout-out from Google at Google I/O 2017!

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Dinosaur Vision Simulator

Dinosaur vision is based on movement, right? So, what does that look like? I built an AR simulator (with a dinosaur onesie) to try and find out

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Ad-Blocking Experiments

We tried some creative solutions to encourage users to let the FT deliver ads

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Listen to the FT

A progressive web app I helped design and build for listening to FT articles offline.

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FT Labs Transcription Service

I built the first automated transcription service for the FT.

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A Big Red Button

"Hey Sean, we're launching the new FT.com tomorrow, and we'd like a button for the occassion. Could you make one?"

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FT Labs Morar

We noticed that lots of little bits of useful (but not needed right now) pieces of data were being discarded. We built a place for the data to live until it's been found a new home.

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FT Archives

I spent some time teaching Tesseract's OCR to better scan the FT archives

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Making Games with Pygame Book

I wrote a book about making games with Python as a part of Raspberry Pi's MagPi Essentials Series

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URL Sharing

As part of the Labs team, I helped write some software that made sharing FT content super easy.

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Big FT

I helped build a web app for making the latest FT headlines visible on big screens

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The Alfabeat

A wearable drum kit I made with Chasing Cadence for Red Bull's Buzz Jam 2015

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FT Labs Screens

I helped put together 'Screens'. A modern, web-powered digital signage system for use around the FT.

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Joined FT Labs

I became the newest developer on the FT Labs team in London

Cayla, The Redweb Labs PA

I hacked a Cayla doll with a Raspberry Pi and had her read out Google Calendar events.

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CineList.co.uk

UK Cinema websites suck for finding showtimes, so I made CineList to try and fix that.

Go there

Pickr

A simple web-based color picking game that I made on the train.

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Snowsplode

A high-performance <canvas> animation of EXPLODING SNOW for our window projections

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Interactive Cycle Hoodie

I made an Arduino-powered hoodie that lights up when you gesture to indicate.

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LightPaint

LightPaint let's you paint in your browser with a phone flashlight with getUserMedia.

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Slow Elvis

A lifesized Elvis Presley robot that follows people. I wrote the code and designed the circuits.

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Window of Weather

A canvas animation projected onto a window which reflected the current local weather conditions.

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Photwos

A collaborative photo sharing app. I made the back-end, front-end and iOS app.

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WebGL Hologram Chamber

A 3D printed mashup of one of the latest web tech and an old Victorian trick.

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Bluetooth Beacons

We tracked ourselves with Bluetooth beacons so our computers could welcome us to the office

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Talking to Computers with Sound

I worked on creating a circuit that could transmit data to phones through the audio jack

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Blaze UV Key

I put together the electronics and software for a mobile FSK UV Sensor.

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Uncovered

Uncovered is a quick prototype application we put together for the Redweb staff to play with.

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Collective Vision

A quick web app that combines images from Flickr to make something entirely new

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HackSoton 3

They had Bacon, It was awesome.

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New Year + Payphones + Twilio

Sometimes I get bored, So I called all of the payphones in Luton simultaneously...

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CapCam

CapCam is a hat we hacked together to automatically take photos at our Christmas Party

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FlickerSigner

A Node.js module for building and signing Flickr OAuth requests.

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HackBMTH

Because why spend your Saturday sleeping?

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Faces of Shame

Sometimes, we swear a bit too much. We thought we'd try and put an end to that with Flickr.

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Ambient Lionel

I made the Raspberry Pi innards for Ambient Lionel, Our first quick look at ambient computing.

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Airplane.js

Airplane.js can turn any display or surface into a touch screen with a Leap Motion

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B & W Meet 11 Site

Tim and I are taking turns to Jazz up the B & W Meet website. Number 11 was my turn.

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Hello

A technical overview of a WebGL and Leap Motion app I made at work

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Engelbart's Chorded Keyboard

In a little tribute to Douglas Engelbart, I made one of his chorded keyboards with Node.js and Arduino.

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Man Feelings Poster

I put together the poster for the Ediburgh Free Fringe show "Man Feelings" Photo by Joe Tattersall.

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B & W Meet Postcards

Each year we send out postcards for B & W Meet. This year, I had a crack at designing them myself

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Big Steps, Tiny Leap (Motion)

I made a quick Leap Motion app for my first day at Redweb.

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Space Toilet

Suck it, Lower mammals...

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Chutney.js

A simple little jQuery library for accessing Rotten Tomatos' API with JSONP.

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Stress Ball

The price of Milk is rising...

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Damn it ScottIE

WE NEED MORE POWER!!!

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OS X Mountain Lion

Rawr Power

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Public Enemy No. 1

Wanted dead. Just dead.

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Feles Lunae

He came in peace for all Catkind

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Revenge

I SHALL HAVE IT.

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FALSE

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Time Hat

A wibbly-wobbly time telling accessory for the fashion concious Nerd.

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WEEEEE!!!!

Illness sucks

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IT BURNS

If my Lungs had a voice… Oh wait! They do… OWWWW!!!

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Ready or not...

Here comes science!!!

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A Little Bit Racey

I was asked by an old friend to design a poster/logo for Hope FM's new show "A Little Bit Racey". Had a lot of fun with this one.

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Grabbr

A simple Node.js app for emailing me my Twitter favourites from the day.

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Tonlist

(It's Icelandic for music).

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Firefox OS Hack Day @ Mozilla

Myself, Tim and Aidan visited Mozilla London for their Firefox OS Hackday. Tons of fun!

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SNESSockets

Let's post to Facebook with a SNES Controller. Because, why not?

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IIB Awards 2012

My graduate project made the shortlist for the IIB Awards 2012 in the Interactive Visualisation section.

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Facebook London Hack Day

Myself, Tim an Aidan popped up to Facebook London for their Europe office launch hack day. They have amazing burgers!

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Skrynd

A pet (read "unfinished") project that let's scriptwriters view their .FDX files in a browser with the File API.

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