Pneumatic Solenoid Sound Pixel Machine Electrical engineering, Industrial robots, Quit Your Day Job, Do what You Love, And now… Balloon Art @SophiKravitz / mix-engineering.com
The concept: walls of round fleshy objects inflating and deflating
….inflating/ deflating in real-time. Choosing a pleasing image of you.
the experience of the physical
requires the participant to be there in front of it
WHY?
Life is more fun
when you
do all of the things that you love
equalitynowforrobotpethybrids.com
Awww….my first robot
Beaker washing robot
Laboratory Glassware Washer Robot
Poisonous Gas canister controller
Trimethylindium
When you work doing what
you love, only
work with people you like…(-Mitch Altman)
Electric vehicles
….and black clouds
To find time to make art, all I had to dowas get fired
Harvard’s Soft Robotics Toolkit
Awesome collaborators
and art-enablers
A whole pile of other stuff arrived too
What’s a solenoid?
Solenoid driver circuit
When you work doing what
you love, only
work with people you like…(-Mitch Altman)
Stuff:
1 compressor1 air tank25 solenoids driving air in25 solenoids driving air out25 balloons25 solenoid drivers
Art-enablers:Mechanical partner building a shipping box: 8 hoursBegging for help on coding forum: 2 daysTO friend bringing a giant compressor here: Skyping so, so muchFriend delivering free solenoids /tubing: hugs
Hardware is hard Parts can be pricey
Shipping art installations
is so stressful!
Gamma Ray Collector
Radiation Orchestra
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant began on 11 March 2011 and resulted in a nuclear meltdown of three of the plant's six nuclear reactors.
Are you texting right now?
Meeting Minder
Virtual Reality : Wobble Wonder
Virtual Reality : Wobble Wonder
Adding a trigger into Unity is easy
void Start () { // init
OpenConnection(); // open serial port
// some more stuff
}
So basically if you see snow
@SophiKravitz /
mix-engineering.com
Do all of the things that you loveAnd do them only with people you like…give 2 weeks notice if necessary