projects2oo9
ABSOLUT QUARTET
An interactive robotic musical installation, that plays a custom composition based on your input theme in an impossible manner.
2oo7
LIGHT BULB
A levitating, wirelessly powered lightbulb, that will float stably in midair for years without any physical contact.
MOORE PATTERN
An interference pattern creating a kinetic illusion from simple counter-rotating objects. Opposites working together, as in marriage.
2oo6
CIRQUE RING
Infrared transmitting rings, designed for the Cirque du Soleil Revolution Lounge in the Mirage in Las Vegas, enabling what appears to be magical control of visitors' drawings.
TIKL
A wearable feedback device to improve and accelerate motor learning.
CRACKED OUT LOVE
Two opposites, coming together to spell 'love' in the bride and groom's native tongues.
ROBOTIC MOTOR CONTROLLERS
A portable, 8-channel PID control system for controlling anthropomorphic robots.
2oo5
APPLAUSE
A study in politics, control, and group participation, involving user-motivated action.
2oo4
SLINK
A 3-d persistence of vision illusion, yielding an object that appears to do the impossible.
BROKEN TABLE
A typically very brief moment - glass shattering - stored permanently in table form.
SKETCH
An automated art-making machine using a variety of output tools.
ROBOTIC BALL BALANCING BEAM
An experiment in the stabilization of a rolling ball on an otherwise unstable surface. Feedback!
2oo3
VOICE COIL ACTUATOR ARRAY
A tightly-packed array of rotational voice coils, for medical application [or sound making].
KERF
An acrylic kinetic table exploring the ignored side of machining, the 'wasted' material.
DOUBLE LASER TRIGGER
A laser-based trigger for ultra-precise [5us] strobe-firing for high speed bullet photography.
CYBERFLORA
An experiment in distributed artificial intelligence, with a variety of 2o robotic flowers in their garden.
HEATHER CIRCLED
A text-based spinning persistence of vision (PoV) display.
2oo2
TWO SIDES
An alabaster sculpture involving multiple textures, as a 34th anniversary gift for my parents.
DANI EYES
A side-lit laser-etched acrylic light sculpture.
HIGH SPEED FLASH TRIGGER
An infrared breakbeam trigger for high speed imaging.
2oo1
GROWTH
An irradiated acrylic sculpture with diffractive lighting.
FAN-MAN
A first experiment in kinetic sculpture, with a deus-ex-machina feel.
THE DRIP PROJECT [273-o73A]
An exploration into alternative methods of sound-making, with Leo Hochberg.
