A breadcrumb trail of project notes
The Spring Show is going to be wild. More than 100 projects. My Blue Flower made it in.
Interactive Telecommunications Program
Spring Show 2006
http://itp.nyu.edu/show/
Tuesday, May 9 from 5-9 PM
Wednesday, May 10 from 6-9 PM
721 Broadway at Waverly Place 4th Floor South Elevators New York, NY 10003
A two day exhibition of interactive sight, sound and physical [...]
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 [...]
Read More..>>Hyrobot Mark I makes his big debut! Saturday April 29 at Tonic! Hydrobot Mark I will perform “Hydrobot Learns to Surf” with visuals by Ilteris Kaplan.
TOOL: An evening of novel performance technologies
Performances from the graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU grace the upstairs stage at Tonic with interactive installations down in subTonic. [...]
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)
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, [...]
The current plan to control the flow of water from the nozzles is to have spinning disks which interrupt the flow. Last week I cut some 5″ disks with 1/4″ mounting holes from acrylic using the laser cutter at NYU. I bought some Airpax LB82773-M1 5V 0.8A bipolar stepper motors from Jameco and [...]
Read More..>>The Hydrobot performance will take approximately five minutes and represents a single cycle of the ocean from high tide to low tide and back again. It should give the feel of a good surfing session with high tide being dull, building waves as the tide ebbs eventually leading to poor conditions at low tide, [...]
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 [...]
For my Living Art final project I’m continuing my blue flower. It will be housed in an acrylic vase that is a wireless inductive power source. If the flower is removed from the vase and its nourishing electric field, the flower will droop and dim.
Concept sketches — results of a marathon single sitting [...]