DaDa Box is an interactive storytelling object for entertaining. It adopts the idea of “Collage” from Dadaism, a cultural movement in 1910s, allows a person to generate stories by a simple tangible action: shaking. When the box is shaken, a story contained inside switches its order randomly by sentence, and starts playing to the listener. Video:...
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- drive motor in both way - terminal blocks for tidy up wires - 4x dynode connection for motors - break apart of the robot dog - 9V from battery, 5V from from external (board) Video documentation on the walking dogs (a bit handicapped…) Robotic Dogs from soon on Vimeo. Share on Facebook
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Reference: Turkle, Sherry (Edt). Evocative Objects. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. Especially inspired by the written piece from Sherry Turkle, What makes an object evocative? p.307-326 p.5- “an object serves as a marker of relationship and emotional connection.” p.5- “object as a companion in life experience” p.9- “Objects are able to catalyze self-creation.”….”Objects bring together...
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Hardware sourcing: Max7219: http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=searchProducts&searchTerm=max7219&x=0&y=0 http://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/1339/t/or LED Matrix: Dual color, medium: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=682 Dual color, small: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=681 Dual Color, Serial Interface:(if use this one, no need to have MAX7219) http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=759 Connect with the board / schematic: - http://tinkerlog.com/2008/08/31/led-matrix-projector/ - Circuit Diagram: > http://www.slimboyfatboyslim.org/gl/geoLedCircuit.jpg > related discussion board Control wtih LED driver: http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/LEDMatrix Sample Processing code for...
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Having 9 months concept and development, a kinetic sculpture produced in the form of a stylised cloud which is a five meter long whose surface is covered with 4638 flip-dots. Designer is fascinated by the material of flip-dots which is normally use in 70s or 80s in train station or airport notice board to...
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“Audience”, an interactive installation consists of around 64 head-size mirror objects, through video tracking technology, the direction and movement of the objects will follow the way of the performance by the audience, this give different characteristics of human behavior’s expression. Besides, Chris O’Shea, the software developer of the project who graduated in University of...
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touched echo (Performative installation) by Markus Kison Markus examine the space by bring back the audience to 1945, the terrible air raid, the sound transmit through bone conduction. The innovative approach of this is to use bone conduction instead of traditional headphone, which isolate the weather factor. With the audience participation, history story bring...
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Good concept with the appropriate use of BB which symbolize the death being killed, besides the on-going sculpture can be view as a Monument. Yes this is ironic as overall create an aesthetic viewing, however it is for the memorizing the death of human tradegy. More info on the project: In this piece a...
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