#mozopenhard

Mozilla Factory team participated MozFest 2015 in London! This year, we brought, “Co-mozilla Lab: Create your own projection mapping show“, “MozOpenHard : CHIRIMEN“ and “Fabble : Web based documentation platform“.

Masashi Yamamoto of Co-Mozilla Lab brought a workshop using parapara animation, which is a web based animation tool. The workshop is not only making an animation but also making a 3D object from cray. Participants are able to combine their 3D objects into parapara animation. The teaching recipe is available on Fabble.

MozOpenHard Project participated in WoT garage where various Web of Things projects come together in one place. Last year the project held a workshop to discuss about hardware specification of their Open source hardware. This year the project came back with actual board with B2G  and WebAPIs for I2C and GPIO installed!

At the WoT garage, the project demonstrated 2 activity. One is a digital signage system using CHIRIMEN to explain the environment. The demo is developed by Satoru Takagi a member of the project. A projector displays picture of the open hardware on screen. By touching red dots or pressing a hardware switch, the explanation of hardware pop up and video starts. This interactive signage system is all written in HTML,CSS and JavaScript and running on Gecko. Therefore, all signage data can be made by a front end Web developer. The system also capable to get values from sensors or control actuators connected via I2C and GPIO.

Another demo by Daisuke Akatsuka is WoT educational kit using CHIRIMEN, as shown in the picture bellow. When developing a software to control hardware, it maybe difficult to find a problem in development. In this demo, developer can preview the result on screen when he or she is writing a code to control hardware. If preview screen is working OK, problem should be in hardware side, if preview screen is showing different result, problem is in the software.

Fabble team also exhibit their activity in MozFest. Fabble is a Web based documentation system to record various project such as digital fabrication, teaching plan, lab experience etc.  Ryo Oshima, the main developer, also held a workshop to use archived project and reuse it to create something new. Fabble was also used to share Parapara animation’s teaching recipe.

Mozilla Factory のプロジェクトの 1 つである MozOpenHard Project は、11/20-21の 2 日間、慶應義塾大学湘南藤沢キャンパスが開催する SFC Open Research Forum に出展いたします。当日は、CHIRIMEN を使ったサイネージのデモを、W3Cブース にて展示しております。

MozOpenHard Project は、9 月 26 日～27 日にニューヨークで開催されたWorld Maker Faire に WoT 開発環境 CHIRIMEN を出展しました。

MozOpenHard Projectのブースでは、CHIRIMENを使ったデジタルサイネージ（上のデモビデオ）の展示をおこないました。スクリーン裏側に貼り付けたタッチセンサーからの入力に応じてサイネージのコンテンツが動的に切り替わります。もちろんCHIRIMEN で作られたこの作品は、HTML5,CSS そして JavaScript だけで開発されています。

イベントでは、多くの来場者に展示をみていただき、有意義なディスカッションがおこなわれました。多くのMakerの皆さんからCHIRIMENを使った製品を一緒に作らないか?というお誘いや、CHIRIMEN を使って学校で教育をやってみたいというアイディアについて議論ができました。

また多くの来場者が既に Firefox OS を知っており Web から実空間のモノを制御することに興味を持っていました！Web と Maker コミュニティは非常に近い関係にあり、両者がコラボレーションした新しいデバイスの可能性を感じます。

MozOpenHard project participated World Maker Faire in New York last weekend.

At the faire, the project displayed a digital signage made with CHIRIMEN (See a demo video above). By using touch sensor behind the screen, the signage can change contents dynamically. Since this is a CHIRIMEN environment, developer used only HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript to develop.

At the event, a lot of people visited our booth and had great discussion. Such as developing products with other MAKERS or use of CHIRIMEN in education at schools. Also we noticed that people participated in the event had an interest on Firefox OS and controlling devices from the Web. It means that the Web and makers are very close and there are possibility to collaborate!