Over the Xmas break I have been helping out my girlfriend in her flower shop. This gave me an ideal opportunity to study how things work and have a think about the possible ‘data’ that I can set free. The original concept of a button to press would not be practical in hindsight as they have always got a handful of flowers! However, the one thing that they use every time they make a sale is their till, and they always hit the ‘cash’ button to open the drawer so this got me thinking about adapting that button for my needs. I could ‘piggy back’ the button to send a signal to signify a sale.

I also made a lot of deliveries for them over the Xmas period, delivering flowers all over the place. I managed to keep a record of all the addresses the I delivered to in the period leading upto Xmas. This has given me a data set to start to work with. Another observation I made was that all the delivery addresses they handle are written down on pieces of paper and attached to the order, this is where I collected my data from. Maybe there is some way of digitising this data set. More thinking…