(image credit: Thoma Kikis) video credit: Tom Jennings Tom Jennings and I designed and built this calligraphy robot for director Chris Milk and Radical Media, as part of “The Wilderness Downtown”, an interactive music video for the band Arcade Fire. The machine uses a custom pen plotter to print postcards generated by viewers, and it […]
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 […]
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 […]
