New Firefly

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Real-time data flow between the digital and physical world

Firefly connects physical devices with Rhino though Grasshopper for both input and output. The physical devices supported include:

  • Arduino connected to LEDS, lights, motors, valves, sensors, etc.
  • Webcam streaming
  • Mobile devices (iOS+Android) using OSC and UDP
  • Internet feeds and search XML feeds
  • Kinect game controller including skeleton tracking
  • Leap Motion controller
  • Microphones and speakers
  • Many more…

Other features include:

  • Visualize Sensor Data within Firefly / Grasshopper
  • Generate code to upload to an Arduino board
  • Basic sound input and processing tools
  • Datalogging, counting and playback
  • Machine Vision toolkit including edge detection, color filtering, convolution filtering and much more.

New features include:

  • Rewritten Firefly Firmata with support for Arduino Due.
  • Improved Leap Finger Tracking.
  • Several bug fixes.
  • New components:
    • PID loops
    • Kinect V2 support
    • Bitmap Tracer
    • Bitmap Decompose/Recompose & Threshold

More details…

Posted Jan 07, 2015 by Bob McNeel on Rhino News, etc.

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Bob, your post “New Firefly” dated 2015 makes me sad. Hopefully it will be brought back to life.
(Or at least stay functioning for a while : D )

Jonas

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Did you check with Andy Payne?

I’m guessing it works or he might need to make a few minor changes.

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Yes, it works, it’s just the newest update Firefly got is this one, from 2015. : )

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This is from 2015, there haven’t been any major updates or changes to it.