A breadcrumb trail of project notes
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)
LEMUR is building a new studio/art space on Third Ave in Brooklyn. The place is gigantic, with space for a machine shop, offices, gallery and teaching. There is a tremendous amount of work to do to get it into shape, but it’s exciting times indeed. Watch for much more LEMUR activity throughout the [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
The LEMUR installation at the National Gallery in D.C. will have it’s last show on May 7th. But on May 6th there will be a special presentation of the complete 22 minutes of Ballet Mécanique and other works for the mechanical orchestra. If you haven’t seen the installation, it’s worth checking out, and [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]