I was a primary engineer on this video. I worked out the majority of triggers on the upper level, as well as designed and built several of the individual modules, including the Sunrise, the flags, the typewriter mechanism, and the rolling ball/kabuki screen theater. I also contributed the “Make: magazine” race car that rolls down […]
Phantom Limb Generator
this is an instructional video about the operation and recommended uses of the Phantom LImb Generator, a home amputation appliance. this is a bit more in depth:
Bronco Table
The bronco table is an autonomous robot, controlled by an arduino microcontroller. The legs are actuated by 12vdc automotive motors (I think they might be windshield wiper motors), and they are powered by a lead acid battery that has been recessed into the tabletop. Its primary sensor is a piezo-electric disc, the kind commonly used […]
Mobile de Piccinati
Speed is controlled by a mercury switch. There are also magnetic reed switches which turn the LED’s on and off. Additionally there is a hand-cut ratchet at the top, which causes a hammer to strike the bell every third revolution.
rotating thing toy
what it says on the tin.
Frankenrooster
The frame of this is galvanized “plumber’s tape”, wire hangers and paperclips. The skin is handsewn leather, with rooster feathers. When it was built, it walked forward, but for some reason, after the skin was fitted it only walked backwards. I’m not really sure why. Its eyes are made out of christmas tree lights.
Baby Mobile of Death
Here’s a little mobile I built as a gift to a friend’s newborn son, to hang over his crib (I’m not sure if the parents ever decided to put it there, though. Maybe a wise decision). The little rods hanging below the apparatus have little rare-earth magnets embedded in the ends, and magnets with the […]
Survey of Work up to 2006
Here’s an old video from a show I had in 2006 at the Jonathan Shorr Gallery in Soho, NYC. It’s got a lot of work in action, as well as stupid soundbites from me.
AutoGamelan
the control mechanism is made of differently sized pulleys, rotating at slightly different rates, and tripping a switch with every revolution. Each switch activates a solenoid, which drives a hammer against a pyrex pot lid, or a length of aluminum tubing. Because the timing of each actuator is slightly different from one another, the hammer […]
ROBOZOIC
Robozoic is a collection of simple automatic creatures, which ambulate across a surface with the aid of solenoids. They have a very rudimentary system that activates the solenoids, which consists of a rotating cylinder with pins stuck in it. As the cylinder rotates, the pins trip switches to turn the solenoids off and on (essentially […]
