FriiSpray is a project thought up by three people in the North of England, based at the Innovation North co-working space in the Old Broadcasting House, Leeds. Friispray was created in September 2009, it was part the result of experimentation between Stu Childs & Dave Lynch. We were looking at the uses of Johnny Chung Lee’s Open source WiiMote whiteboard software and Infra red LEDs. By the end of the session we had inverted the use of the whiteboard software and hatched plans to house the infra-red Leds in a spray can. FriiSpray was born. Over the next few weeks we designed and built the first infra-red spraycan. We were keen to follow the examples set by other online communities such as Instructables.com and Makezine.com who house hold technology, this made the device accessible and could be created by anyone. This kind of an open source way of working by sharing the knowledge so that other people can add to the design and spread the word. We both met at the NTI a hot-desking co-working space for freelance creatives based at The Old Broadcasting House in Leeds. This is also where we met Richard Garside, a programer extraordinaire, who developed the front end friispray software in flash.
There is plenty of work around the web with people doing similar things – the Wiimote has really broken open so much opportunity for techno-mangling, it’s mind boggling! Plenty of people are doing their own grafitti-based infra-red / Wiimote work, FriiSpray is our contribution to this community.Thanks goes out to Jonny Chung Lee for his amazing Wiimote Whiteboard software, and sharing it with us and so many others.
For more info, requests, bookings or otherwise just email us: info [at] friispray [dot] co [dot] uk
