Andy Payne Male San Francisco, CA United States: Like

6 members like this; Share on Facebook

Share Twitter

Andy Payne's Likes

Andy Payne's Friends

View All

Andy Payne's Groups

Weaverbird - Topological…

382 members
Millipede

255 members

Coffee + Grasshopper

152 members
PanelingTools GH Add-On

298 members

HAL || Robot Programming…

39 members

View All

Andy Payne's Discussions

Alpha Channel of Lines and Points
4 Replies

Started this discussion. Last reply by David Rutten Feb 24.

Weaverbird in 0.8.0063
11 Replies

Started this discussion. Last reply by Giulio Piacentino Aug 21, 2012.

GH_Timer
5 Replies

Started this discussion. Last reply by David Rutten Aug 15, 2011.

View All

Andy Payne's Page

Latest Activity

Andy Payne liked stefano's video

Fixing Machine

5 hours ago

Andy Payne commented on stefano's video

Fixing Machine

"Nice. Great seeing the physical interface. Would you mind if I post this on the Firefly website gallery?"

5 hours ago

Andy Payne liked Alan Tai's video

Selectable Preview Component

yesterday

Andy Payne commented on Mateusz Zwierzycki's photo

GH > SVG > Chrome (proof of concept)

"Cool. I didn't realize you were trying to launch a local form. I thought you were trying to send GH data over to the web directly (which still should be possible). Although again, you seem to have come up with a good solution…"

Monday

Andy Payne commented on Mateusz Zwierzycki's photo

GH > SVG > Chrome (proof of concept)

"Wouldn't using something like Socket IO be better? If you store the data in the cloud and emit the SVG data using Socket IO, then the update would be nearly instantaneous (at least much fast than 1 fps). Although this means you…"

Monday

Andy Payne liked Jason Kelly Johnson's photo

Serpentine Firefly 3d Printer

Monday

Shridhar Mamidalaa liked Andy Payne's photo

Protoshield_5

Sunday

Shridhar Mamidalaa liked Andy Payne's photo

Protoshield_6

Sunday

Shridhar Mamidalaa liked Andy Payne's photo

Protoshield_7

Sunday

Andy Payne replied to David Spittler's discussion Arduino-Firefly Firmata Setup

"Hi Saru and David, Yes, the issue is that you have to upgrade to the latest Arduino IDE. They updated the Serial library at some point after releasing v.1.0 and added this functionality. If you use the latest IDE software, you should be…"

Saturday

Shridhar Mamidalaa liked Andy Payne's video

Firefly + BreathOSC + Kangaroo

Friday

Andy Payne replied to Scott Mayson's discussion Remembering values with rotary switching in the group Firefly

"Hi Scott, I think you just need to check and make sure (in both if statements) that the in_list is not null and that the List.Count is greater than 0. I think what's happening is that when you push the button it switches the gate... and since…"

May 14

Andy Payne replied to Scott Mayson's discussion Remembering values with rotary switching in the group Firefly

"We"

May 10

Andy Payne replied to Scott Mayson's discussion Remembering values with rotary switching in the group Firefly

"For some reason... it didn't upload the file. Let's try again."

May 9

Andy Payne replied to Scott Mayson's discussion Remembering values with rotary switching in the group Firefly

"Hi Scott, I think something like this will work... but take a look and let me know. -Andy"

May 9

Andy Payne replied to Scott Mayson's discussion Remembering values with rotary switching in the group Firefly

"Hi Scott... Just trying to figure out exactly what you're after. So, in your example you have a list of three numbers coming into the S-input... and I'm assuming the Gate input is a slider value which will change whether the list…"

May 9

Profile Information

Web or Blog: http://www.liftarchitects.com

Andy Payne's Photos

Loading…

Andy Payne's Videos

Firefly Computer Vision Tools

Added by Andy Payne 22 Comments 40 Likes
Firefly Kinect Hand Tracking

Added by Andy Payne 5 Comments 21 Likes
Firefly + Kinect + Arduino

Added by Andy Payne 3 Comments 11 Likes

Andy Payne's Blog

Facades+ Interactive Surfaces Workshop

I am excited to be teaching a one-day Interactive Surfaces workshop for the upcoming Facades+ Conference being held in New York City on April 11th-12th. The…

Continue

Posted on March 19, 2013 at 9:47am

Firefly Now Available for Rhino 5.0

Hi Everyone,

After a long time coming, the complete Firefly toolkit has finally been upgraded for Rhino 5.0 (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions). This new release includes an updated C_sawapan_media.dll (many thanks to Panagiotis Michalatos!) as well as a new installer!

The installer should automatically remove any previous versions, and copy all of the core Firefly Grasshopper Assembly files (as well as any needed dependencies) into the roaming Libraries folder on…

Continue

Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:54pm — 1 Comment

Firefly Kinect 0.0004

I have just released an update for the Firefly Kinect (ver. 0.004). There had been a small bug in the Kinect Video Stream and Kinect Depth Stream components which has now been corrected. As before, this build uses the Microsoft Kinect SDK 1.5, which means the components will only work in Rhino 5.0. For best results, I recommend using Rhino 5.0 32-bit version as the Firefly Kinect components also rely on some of the C_sawapan_media.dll functions which has only been compiled for 32-bit…

Continue

Posted on October 3, 2012 at 12:45pm — 3 Comments

New Firefly Build, Website, and more!

I'm really excited to announce the release of several new Firefly endeavors I've been working on over the past few months. The first is the release of a new Firefly Build (1.0067) which is compatible with the latest version of Grasshopper (0.9.0006). This release has a lot of new features…

Continue

Posted on August 17, 2012 at 2:26pm — 9 Comments

Firefly 1.0066 and Kinect 0.0003 Now Available

I am excited to release a new build for both the Firefly core toolset and the Kinect related components. Firefly 1.0066 has several new computer vision components including: Accumulative Exposure, Flip Image, Resize Image, and Image Region. In addition, The Webcam Video Stream and Video…

Continue

Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:34pm — 5 Comments

Comment Wall (18 comments)

You need to be a member of Grasshopper to add comments!

Join Grasshopper

At 4:00pm on October 25, 2012, lmnts said…: Andy,

FYI, I just hooked up a different type of stepper motor (http://robotics.reefat.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/PF35T-48L4.pdf) and the speed is much better. This must be a hardware issue I'll have to look at. Sorry for the trouble.

Erick

At 2:06pm on October 25, 2012, lmnts said…: Andy,

I really appreciate the quick response. My issue here is speed. I took a look at AccelStepper.h, which mentions that speeds above 1000 steps/sec are unreliable...so just to test it, I tried setting the stepper speed to 1000 on the quadstepper component. The steppers I'm using are vextas: http://www.interinar.com/vexta-px243m-03aa.html, which have a step angle of .9. So a speed of 1000 should give me an rps of 2.5, but when I set the quadstepper to a speed of 1000, the actual rps I'm getting is really slow, its more like .2 rps.

At 1:39pm on October 25, 2012, lmnts said…: Andy,

Thanks again for your help today with the capacitors. I have another question regarding quadsteppers and I'm not sure which forum for Firefly is current. Is the most recent forum at firefly.squarespace.com? I had trouble finding a discussion part on the new web site.

Anyway, I posted a question there about increasing stepper speeds with the Quadstepper driver. I'm trying to attach a dremel to a reprap to turn it into a router. The quadstepper works great, but I just need some more juice. Thanks for any help.

-Erick

At 10:56pm on September 13, 2012, Alin Andriasian said…: GH-Rhino%203.jpg

At 10:49pm on September 13, 2012, Alin Andriasian said…: Hi Andy,

thank you for your reply. I did have a look at Firefly's Audio components.

We're trying to move an "arm" similar to the polyline in screenshots, where each member rotates in relation to the members in either side of it. The two end members are fixed at one point. (Thinking in section) a fabric skin is attached to the arms. This skin moves according to the arms' movement behind it. We have an Adruino Uno board connected to grasshopper.

If sound produced by speakers of laptop is our input data, how will it be input into arduino? Also is it possible for us to divide the frequencies of Piano keys into 3 categories of low, medium and high and have them as the output that moves the structure? If yes how should we do that?

thanks heaps for your explanationGH-Rhino%201.jpg GH-Rhino%202.png 2.png

At 5:27pm on September 13, 2012, Alin Andriasian said…: Hi Andy,

I am fairly new to arduino and grasshopper, as well. I'm after a sound responsive vertical surface that moves with the sound frequencies produced from a central source (a piano) in an enclosed space. So we basically are trying to read a sound input and turn it into the surface's movement parameter.Should we use firefly to input sound?

Thank you

At 12:47pm on March 11, 2012, rodolfo.baiz said…: Hi Andy,

Thank you very much for your helpful explanation!

At 4:19am on October 13, 2010, Luca Biselli said…: Hi Andy.
Is current Firefly compatible with the new Arduino UNO? I have been to the recent workshop in London and we were introduced to the new board.
Thank you

Luca

At 4:50am on August 28, 2010, Firefly said…: Hi Andrea,
Unfortunately, I am not involved in the enrollment process for this event. I am pretty sure that Ronnie and Gil will still be teaching the Grasshopper II section, however you may want to email Scott Davidson or one of the ACADIA conference coordinators to ask about logistics.
I hope this helps.
-Andy

At 6:00pm on March 14, 2010, Benjamin Golder said…: I've forwarded it to the students I know who are working with Arduino. They're excited about it. Thanks!!