Project Kuato
I had four days to make an all singing [and dancing] mars rebel leader. And there it was, in a crummy electrical shop I spied a beautiful frog singing Usher…
Here’s a fun idea we had to help lazy flatmates clean up after a pizza.
Inspired by Mary Poppins we simply made the job a game!
Munch, munch, cut, cut…
He shoots!
Nothing but box. 3 points!
Scary things will happen before 9am
The breakfast formerly known as ‘creative breakfast’ will now take place every Thursday morning, this time everyone’s invited!
Well, not account management.
Bring along any ideas you need help with,
personal projects you want to share,
ideas on how we can make GU better…
and we’ll sit around solving it all… one bacon buttie at a time.
A clue to our next project. Brrrrumm brummmmm.
We like this A LOT.
Our friend Pete Lambchop saw a prototype and it reminded him of our idea for Hug or Slug. According to the designer, Brit Leissler’s blog, it’s going on sale later this year. Maybe with a few tweaks it can become our sensor filled plaything? We’ll keep you posted.
It’s Lunchtime! Booo. Moooooo
Good news! We’ve had some amazing ideas from the whole agency and the winner is…
A combination of three suggestions:
Pressure pads in the fridge send a signal to an Ardunio board when the milk weight is down to one pint, this is connected to an old laptop to collect the data. The laptop connects to our internal music system and belts out ‘Ernie, the fastest milkman in the west’ by Benny Hill to the whole office.
Bad news… We will start to build it today and this solution involves a lot of work that will take longer than a lunchtime.
See.
We’ll keep you updated with our progress. Tea anyone?
We can make it in our lunchbreak
Each week we will set ourselves a challenge or problem to solve. Then we have until Friday lunch to make it. Seems reasonable enough…
We can make it feel emotion … Hug or slug
This was an idea we had a few months back for our agency website that didn’t make it out of the workshop. What if we could measure the mood of the whole company and display it graphically? An interesting study into the highs and lows of the day-to-day, and if it effected the mood of the staff. Working late nights on a pitch, grizzly and snappy. Win a pitch, the mood is lifted, well, that was the theory anyhoo.
First we took an Arduino board (above) and attached it to a sensor. This clever little thing takes a physical (or analogue) signal and turns it digital so a computer can read it. At this point we were working small scale and needed the help of someone small. Step up Chris Kowalski, a willing home brew electrician. Chris is often tinkering in his cubbyhole late at night.
*UPDATE* It works! The 01010100100000010010001010 on Chris’ screen means 1 when we touch the sensor, 0 when it’s idle. Next we need to build something a little larger. Anybody have a mannequin we could borrow?
