Andy Payne's Blog (14)

I am excited to announce that Firefly has a new and improved website (www.fireflyexperiments.com).  The website has many new features including a new forum and an e-commerce shop which includes products like the new Firefly Interactive Prototyping Shield.  The Firefly Interactive Prototyping Shield…

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 event has an amazing line up of speakers and workshops which are being taught…

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…

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…

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 including: an entirely re-written Firefly Firmata, multiple web-cam support,…

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 Input components now have settings to control the output resolution. Supported…

I am very excited to announce the release of a new build for Firefly, complete with a new suite of tools for computer vision and audio synthesis.  First, I would like to thank Panagiotis Michalatos for his support in the development of many of these new tools.  In addition to his technical help, the latest build of Firefly makes extensive use…

I am excited to release the latest build of Firefly (ver. 1.0064).  This release features many new improvements to the Firefly toolset.  Most notably, there is now support for controlling stepper motors through the Firefly/Grasshopper interface.  The new Quad Stepper Motor component formats the necessary data to control up to 4 stepper motors, and the Convert Degrees…

The kind folks over at www.pachube.com have been very interested in the integration between Rhino/Grasshopper and Firefly with their web-based Internet of…

A new version of Firefly (1.0063) and Firefly Kinect beta release is now available!  The latest version of Firefly offers many new components including: Bang, AND Flip Flop, NOR Flip Flop, Counter, Frame Rate, Stop Watch, and Is Key Pressed.  You can read more about all the new tools here. 

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I am excited to announce the release of Firefly 1.006!  This is a major release and includes many new components and bug fixes, along with a number of new tutorials and example files. Here are a few notable features:

Firefly 1.006 unveils a new Arduino Code Generator component which attempts to convert any Grasshopper…

It was brought to my attention (thankfully) that there was a bug in the last build of Firefly (1.004) which was causing Rhino to crash upon closing any Grasshopper document.  Thanks to David's help, I was able to track down the problem and a new release of Firefly (1.005) has just been uploaded to the Firefly website.  If you have an older version, it is highly recommended that you upgrade to this newest release.  Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused and we welcome any…