As part of the VELOCITY Festival of DIgital Culture, artist Mark Dixon has developed a solar powered version of Network, his wireless detector artwork, as on online workshop for instructables and folly. An array of these devices were installed in the Furness & Midland Hall at Carnforth Railway Station on the 31st October 207 as part of a Halloween Film Night.
The original version was presented at Enter festival in Cambridge as a major site-specific installation for the temporary festival domes in the park. Network explores the visualisation of the wireless information that surrounds us but is rarely acknowledged. Using 3000 wireless detectors and 6000 ultra bright LEDs he created a work that visibly responded to mobile phone use in a public environment. Each day, workshop participants were actively encouraged to hack and to add to the lighting array that was visible all through the night. On the last day of the festival Network was broken down and handed out to festival goers and distributed throughout the city.
from http://www.instructables.com/id/Solar-Powered-Wireless-Detector-by-Mark-DIxon/
Monday, June 6, 2011
Ollie the socially awkward autonomous blimp
Ollie is a DIY autonomous robotic blimp who is vulnerable, socially awkward and yearns for attention. Ollie is developed by Pritika Nilaratna.
[Pritika] is a user experience design student at Parsons who just finished up an autonomous blimp project designed to react to voices and communicate, “his friendliness and eagerness to be noticed.”
The instructable [Pritika] posted goes through the build – a 850mAh LiPo battery powers an Arduino Pro Mini, which controls two 3.6 gram servos. While not much in the way of electronics, the real beauty behind this build is the implementation. From watching the video of Ollie interacting with people, we’re pretty sure [Pritika] met her objective of making her pet blimp friendly and unobtrusive.
main text from hack a day
mylar baloons enevelopes at rc toys
Interesting comments on her blog esp from 84 year old.
The interaction between people in Ollies environment and Ollies are worth investigating .
Ollie from Pritika Nilaratna on Vimeo.
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