Archive for March, 2009
Andrew’s Solder Demo on tape
Soldering Demo
This is my first video from my Kodak camcorder thing, I couldn’t get wordpress to embed my video, but here the link.
old fashion robotics store in providence
http://oldfashionroboticstore.com/
old fashion robotics store for supplies
the stores a bit hidden .. look for signs
14 Cedar Street
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 276-4216
Atau Tanaka and Petra Gemeinboeck’s Net Derive
“Net Derive is a location sensitive mobile media art piece that calls for an exchange between participants in the gallery and participants in the streets. Deployed on advanced mobile phones, the work seeks to create a kind of musical instrument, thinking of the city as an instrument.”
-arthur
Kate Hartman’s Urban Sonar
“Urban Sonar is a personal space monitoring system that senses an individual’s experience as they move through the urban environment and records that information for review at a later time. [....] Ultrasonic range finders are mounted in the front, back, and shoulders of a jacket, measuring the empty space or proximity to solid forms on all sides of the body. Conductive fabric strips are strapped around the fingers and serve as the contact leads for a heart rate monitor that registers pulse. ” The project looks to map out our anxiety when we move around the countless unfamiliar bodies in an urban environment.
http://www.urbansonar.com/visualizer.php
-arthur
Shape shifting Material by Intel
Faster than rapid prototyping, changes color, shape and form to mimic any material in real life. This technology is developed by intel and the video is fake, but really cool. Imagine the day we can actually make 3D presentations of products instantly.
-Tino
Switch Project 3/3
After a fun and exciting day of video recording our switch projects, I have posted up my photos on Flickr. Enjoy
Fischli and Weiss “The Way Things Go”
The switch assignment reminded me of Fischli and Weiss’s “The Way Things Go”, which is a 30 min long chain reaction. In a way, I percieved every action here a switch for the next action, because they all trigger the start of eachother. But of course a switch is something that closes a loop or a circuit whereas in “The Way Things Go” the chain reaction doesn’t close a certain loop, it is a line of actions following eachother.
