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Living Art – Blue Flowers

Posted by mang on February 16th, 2006 filed in Electronics, Living Art, School

For this week’s Living Art assignment I created two flowers out of circuit boards, wire, resistors and LEDs. Here are the pictures.
I’ve long been interested in creating organic forms and experiences with technology. Creating these flowers is an experiment in trying to create circuits that connect with us based on our heritage as [...]

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Frankenbear — Part 1

Posted by mang on February 5th, 2006 filed in Electronics, Hacking, Living Art, School

For Living Art week 3 we’re are supposed to implement a Finite State Machine in a physical system. Suzan and I are hacking a Gloomy Bear to add some interaction. I’ll describe the interaction later (should be fun), but here are pictures from the Gloomy Bear hacking session.
The voice recorder we got from [...]

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LEMUR update

Posted by mang on January 25th, 2006 filed in Electronics

Work is progressing well on the Xylobots (a set of robotic xylophones we’re building for a show at the National Gallery of Art). Here are two quick pics. A lot of the work is comprised of small repetitive tasks (e.g. cutting ~140 vinyl spacers, sanding them to the correct length, then deburring them). [...]

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