A breadcrumb trail of project notes
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 Flower by [...]
Read More..>>Working in the lab. Here’s a quick and dirty drill guide for the Airpax LB82773-M1 stepper motor. Airpax LB82773-M1 drill guide (.ai) Airpax LB82773-M1 drill guide (.png)
Read More..>>Ah, April, when a young ITPer’s thoughts turn to… oh! crap! so! much! to! do! Pictures from Hydrobot interrupter disk testing Last night I tested the Hydrobot interrupter disks attached to stepper motors. The KP4M4 stepper was way to weak, but the ones I got from Jameco should work well. They can go pretty fast, [...]
Read More..>>My blue flower will use inductive charging. I took apart an Oral-B CrossAction Power Max toothbrush ($18 at K-Mart) to see how it works and see if it would be useable in my project. Charger hacking and coil construction pics The toothbrush side is remarkably simple. There is a coil attached directly to a battery [...]
Read More..>>I made two short videos of the HydroBot for my NIME midterm presentation. (Need the latest QuickTime for the videos… sorry.) Walkthrough video (high quality .mov 28MB) Demo with sound from contact mic (high quality .mov 9.5MB)Walkthrough and demo together (medium quality 14MB .mov) Here is a sketch for what one of the nozzle arrays [...]
Read More..>>Some progress on the Hydro/SquidBot. I’m trying out different mounting techniques for getting the water spray to hit the bar perpendicularly. The bar wants to hang vertically, so that means the nozzle has to be parallel to the ground. The bar gets pushed around from side to side when the water is flowing, so I [...]
Read More..>>The premiere of Ballet Mécanique at the National Gallery of Art was incredible. The performance went flawlessly and there was a good crowd and good reaction. The setting was fantastic — smack dab in the mezzanine of the East Building along with works by greats like Calder, Max Ernst, and Andy Goldsworthy. At some point [...]
Read More..>>I’m about to take the Chinatown bus to DC for the premiere of Ballet mécanique tomorrow at the National Gallery of Art. Incredible what you can do in two short months with a lot of people helping and a single visionary at the helm! The show runs from March 12 through 28 with shows at [...]
Read More..>>Annotated construction pics from my etched copper blue electronic flowers MKII. Also includes testing pics from Todd’s flourescent fibonacci series.
Read More..>>I completed the second version of my blue flower. This time instead of making a circuit board I etched a copper sheet directly leaving me bare copper circuit traces which could then be bent into shape. Soldering to the copper was difficult because of the large mass of copper sucking the heat away. It was [...]
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