A breadcrumb trail of project notes
Continuing in my direction of creating electronic systems which are in some way based upon the principles of nature, I would like to create a system where electronic flowers and electronic beetles interact in a symbiotic relationship.
A number of electronic flowers will be spread around a small “arena”. Each flower will have LEDs to [...]
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 will look like. [...]
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 [...]
Read More..>>There were some really fantastic pieces presented at the Living Art (generative art combined with physical computing) midterm. Here are the pictures. Kind of hard to tell what’s going on in those unless you’re in the class (video documentation would be better).
For my piece I continued my work with the blue flowers and [...]
Push The Button – Simnuke and 60 Years of the Atomic Bomb
On July 16, 1945 the beginning of the Atomic Age was marked by the successful detonation of the first nuclear device at the Trinity test in New Mexico. On July 16, 2005 a group of artists and engineers recreated the look and feel [...]
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. [...]
Read More..>>Some progress on the Hydrobot front. My thinking now is that I want to move the water more, and have the movement be more visible. The goal is to make the bot be itself a performer, and that requires the audience to understand what the bot is doing and have a feeling of [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
More pictures of Frankenbear in progress. We’re using a Winbond ISD2575 voice recorder chip to make the bear talk in response to input and a QProx 113 capacitive touch sensor as an input. Getting the Winbond to work, laying out a design on stripboard and doing the soldering took several hours, so the [...]
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