A breadcrumb trail of project notes
My Blue Flower was featured in the Art Work column in MAKE Issue 10. The article is called Illuminated Circuits and focuses on artists who use electronic circuits for both their form and function. I’m in there along with Peter Vogel (one of my personal heroes).
Read More..>>I started a page detailing some of the projects I’ve worked on since starting ITP. Also I’m really starting to dig DokuWiki.
Read More..>>The mission of Habana Labs in Brooklyn is to research, develop and apply technology related to ecology and sustainable energy. Their focus is on empowering local communities to take part and their approach is very hands on. At their third in a series of workshops on wind power the focus was on the [...]
Read More..>>Blue Flower was featured on Make: Magazine’s blog yesterday. Awesome!
Read More..>>ITP students are a rather eager bunch. Not content with just taking classes, the actually teach other classes/workshops called DriveBys as well. Normally they are on Thursday nights, but there is such an excess of keen that they happen on Monday nights now as well.
This Monday, November 12 at 9:15pm at ITP, Nick [...]
The descriptions and schedule for fall classes at the LEMURplex are now available. I’m teaching Electronics for Poets which is an introduction to electronics and circuit design.
Long Format Classes (three sessions)
Mondays, September 25, October 2 & October 16, 6:30-9:30 pm
INTRO TO JITTER
Cycling ‘74 Jitter
Tuesdays, September 26, October 3 & October 10, 6:30-9:30 pm
INTRO TO [...]
Opening night of open studios at the Megashear Ranch was last night. Lots of great works on display. I made an installation of my Dance Loop that I used for a dance performance with the NYU-ITP dance collaboration and I have an Inverse Parasol kicking around (works great with the video installation). [...]
Read More..>>I decided to learn SolidWorks since it’s designed for solids modelling and seems a perfect match for the 3D printer. Brian (another 3D intern) and Michael (the R&D Tech Director) tend towards Maya. Maya seems like the tool to use for dealing with characters and geometry captured from graphics-oriented programs (using the incomparable [...]
Read More..>>Hydrobot Mark I is a robot that makes music using water. Mark I sprays water pressurized by a pump onto metal resonator plates that are attached to a contact microphone. Laser-cut acrylic disks mounted to waterproofed motors spin and interrupt the flow of water to create rhythm. The sound of the contact [...]
Read More..>>The show at Tonic was a success! Hydrobot Mark I presented a short piece and nobody was electrocuted. Video hopefully soon!
The Materials and Building Strategies class at ITP had some great final projects. Also check out the great new Materials for New Media website.
Pictures from ITP Materials Final Spring 2006
Blue [...]
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