Ellie – Proof of Concept Video
My latest project in the works is called Ellie. Ellie is a Fisher Innovation project to create a customized voice recognition system with assistance capabilities for use in the home. Ellie can take in spoken English commands, perform tasks and calculations and respond via synthesized speech. This video illustrates the idea put into action. I will be posting a lot more regarding this project very soon so be sure to stay tuned. Ellie – Proof of Concept from Matt Fisher on...
read moreExcited for FITC Amsterdam 2012!
I couldn’t be happier to ring in 2012 by traveling over to Amsterdam this February to attend and speak at FITC Amsterdam (Feb. 26-28). I will be presenting two separate presentations this year, one on a overview of the jQuery framework and one on a personal project called MyDataFurnace.com. I will also be running a full day workshop on jQuery Mobile a day prior to the conference (More details here). Be sure to get your ticket for the event if you haven’t already. Vist the FITC Amsterdam site to get all the information you...
read moreFITC Screens 2011 – jQuery Mobile Presentation Slides
After a great turnout to my jQuery Mobile presentation this year at FITC Screens 2011, I had a ton of attendees ask for the URL of the presentation I made in jQuery Mobile. So without anymore waiting here it is. http://labs.fisherinnovation.com/fitc/presentation/ More work like this can always be found in the Labs section of this site, so be sure to go and see if there is anything else you may be interested in. You can also download the source for the presentation easily from it’s GitHub repo –...
read moreDean West and Jam3 Team up for an Epic Photoshoot
Bored with the commonplace/typical “Process” or “How We Work” sections found in most studio or agency websites, our creative intent was twofold: To defy convention and to demonstrate our process in a way that is creative, amusing and downright unique. Jam3 is known for work that is elaborate and visual, so collaborating with the very talented Dean West to transform our process into a series of over the top, epic photos was natural. Each person depicted in the Process collection is employed at Jam3. This is an important...
read moreLinux Screen Tutorial
If your a SSH, or command line user and haven’t used screen before be sure to look into it. Ever been transferring a file or running a program in a command line interface and accidentally close it or disconnect? The result will be a termination of the running application and possible loss of work. When Microsoft released Windows 3.1, the world was wowed with the fact that you can just open another window and run multiple applications at the same time. Well, you can easily do this on the command line as well. By launching...
read moreSpeaking at FITC Screens 2011
I will be doing a presentation at Screens 2011 this year on the jQuery Mobile framework and how we used it on the new Jam3 website. I will be speaking to the pro’s and con’s when developing for mobile and also share some of the interesting things we found out while working with this framework. Presentation Deatils Screens 2011 will be hosted in Toronto Ontario this year on November 14th and 15th. More information here. See you...
read moreSimple XBee Communication with Arduino
Call me blind but there just isn’t an easy to find tutorial to understand how to use XBee wireless modules with your Arduino micro controllers. I imagine it is because once you realize how simple it is, you wouldn’t think there would need to be a tutorial. Well I have had enough people ask me about this, so I figured I would post a demo. Over the couple years I have been using Arduino’s, I have embedded these wireless modules to many of my projects and found out many interesting quirks, mostly from trial and error. In this...
read moreSimple Automated Backups Using rsync
rsync is a software application for Unix and Windows systems which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate. If your are on a Unix based system here is a simple snippet of code for crontab to automate backups or duplicate drives on or offsite. I sometimes refer to this as fake RAID0 as it keeps perfect replication of one drive on another and if you set a quick timer interval for backups, it almost is always duplicating your data for backup. Pending your...
read moreToronto Mini Maker Faire 2011 Review
May 7th and 8th 2011 was a weekend packed with tons of amazing DIY work showcased at the Toronto Mini Maker Faire. I figured this event would be a great chance to finally get my FI-AUAV out in public to see what the general impression was. After two days and a couple thousand people, I can easily say – I can’t wait until next year! The event was hosted in the Evergreen Brick Works, which was a great venue for this type of show. There were tons of makers with great things to show off. From crafts to robots, the Maker Faire seemed to...
read moreTap Madness in the BlackBerry App World
A simple game I wrote for the upcomming BlackBerry Playbook has been accepted today. Tap Madness is a simple touch based game written in ActionScript3 and published with the BlackBerry Tablet AIR SDK. The current public version is 0.4alpha and I have spent about 3 weeks working on 0.5alpha which is close to completion. More details will be posted soon! More information on Tap Madness can be found...
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