Now this is fun…
“It’s hard work carving the slopes by day and carving the ice by night. For one Special night Australian ski resort Mount Buller was illuminated by ENESS’ signature eyeball installation. Materials used a laptop, 1 cold projector, snow and snow plough.“
Love to give this a go - let’s hope we get some snow in Ipswich this year!
Related: Maker Faire: Video Head and Two Unusual Projection Spaces
This is great! The Play Coalition’s Plantbot is a robotic pot-plant that seeks light… [via make]
Other fun plant projects include Douglas Irving Repetto’s Fly Away (Not Going Very Far)
I heard about this today, Rob Higgs’ The Plant Processor is a thirty-foot-high interactive Heath Robinson device, at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
It’s the world’s largest nutcracker - as Higgs says, “It’s a real sledgehammer to crack a nut”. I think this is strictly speaking an idiom rather than a Proverb...
Cheers,
Dave
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The collective will be exhibiting an interactive video wall to compliment the “Shoot the Scene” film festival this Friday-Saturday at Exposure gallery.
On Saturday PixelH8 will also be conducting a workshop into the basics of chip-tune music; learn how to modify a cheap keyboard to produce new sounds. For booking information see Ip-Art or call 01473 433100.
I love the mechanical simplicity of this and how difficult it must have been to get it to work with such apparent ease. All this is happening with a single motor and cam arrangement.
(via MAKE)
Having seen the wonderful things Tim Hunkin has made, it’d be great to try out some automata for the Proverbs Show. I got a copy of Cabaret Mechanical Movement which looks like a good place to start. Very happy to lend that to anyone who’s interested. I also bought one of the Timberkits kits - lots of fun!
Cheers,
Dave.
Related: Kinetica - Museum of Kinetic Art
A couple of weeks ago we had a field-trip to the Under the Pier Show at Southwold. We were shown around by its creator and our new friend, Tim Hunkin.
As Tim puts it the Under the Pier Show is, “A mad collection of home-made slot machines & simulator rides on Southwold Pier”. We got Autofrisk’ed, toned-up with Quickfit and journeyed to the bottom of the sea in the Bathyscape. I think my favourite is the Mobility Masterclass; I really like the combination of mechanics and video - it’s also really good fun!
Tim’s short film For Amusement Only talks about many of the things we saw and some interesting reflections of amusement arcades:
Our friend Nigel Crawley made a really nice Arduino Wiimote Hack at the recent Brighton BarCamp:
Wow! Pixelh8’s on CNN! See here. Well done Matthew!
Had a chance to help build this musical robot when I was in Boston. Sorry not to have more time to join in with the installation in New York but what a job they’ve done! See the video below for more…