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Camera Turret!

By Darcy July 4, 2011 Kinetic Sculpture, Robotics No Comments

I have this cool camera turret. It has auto focus and a large lens. Steppers and stuff. And controllers. As far as I know it’s working. I’m curious about the…

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Arduinos, Wifi, controllers and stuff

By Darcy July 2, 2011 Arduino, Interactive, Kinetic Sculpture, Robotics 1 Comment
Arduinos, Wifi, controllers and stuff

I was just looking at the Arduino Mega and other stuff. To get a controller into something that you can control through the internet (plus it can get information to…

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Honda Power Supply

By Darcy July 2, 2011 Kinetic Sculpture, Performance, Tools 2 Comments
Honda Power Supply

I’ve been eyeballing gas powered power supplies over the past while. I was thinking it could serve a lot of purposes. At any sort of trade show or travel, I’d…

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Other Drawbot projects

By Darcy June 24, 2011 Arduino, Drawbot, Kinetic Sculpture

I now have an arduino/MotorShield running with a couple of steppers so I need to mount the spools on the steppers and write the code to start drawing. There are…

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Rubens tube for sound visualization

By Darcy June 20, 2011 Dance, Kinetic Sculpture No Comments

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More fine works from Ken Patton!

By Darcy June 20, 2011 Kinetic Sculpture No Comments

This is amazing stuff based on compound pendulums. Very finely made and interesting to look at even if it weren’t kinetic! He gets the period of the system to be…

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Makers we need to solve real problems

By Darcy June 11, 2011 Gears, Humor, Kinetic Sculpture No Comments

People who want to monetize have to solve a real problem. How to find a real problem? I think if you survey your community you will find people with problems.…

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Ken Patton

By Darcy May 22, 2011 Kinetic Sculpture No Comments
Ken Patton

I’ve been marveling over some of Ken Patton‘s work. I started to chat with him online to learn more about his work. I’m please show you a new piece of…

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Brad Litwin

By Darcy May 22, 2011 Kinetic Sculpture No Comments

When I was in New York last summer I had the pleasure of meeting Brad Litwin. He is a maker of kinetic art. He had his Quadrapult on display at…

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Who don’t these rods bump into each other?

By Darcy May 22, 2011 Kinetic Sculpture 1 Comment

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Top this angry “World’s Most Useless Machine”

By Darcy May 16, 2011 Film-Photo, Kinetic Sculpture, Robotics No Comments

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Nice Clock

By Darcy May 14, 2011 Kinetic Sculpture No Comments

This looks like a nice project to try. Compound pendulums and clocks. What a great idea! It is so smooth that it’s a bit uncanny. It looks so small and…

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Big Sushi

By Darcy May 11, 2011 Kinetic Sculpture No Comments
Big Sushi

Big Sushi (388 Bloor Street West, Toronto) is a pretty nice restaurant. But this promotional art work is so funny I can barely stand it: Blog this! Digg this post…

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Simple Percussion Instrument

By Darcy May 2, 2011 Kinetic Sculpture, Music, Performance, Robotics No Comments
Simple Percussion Instrument

My new tool box came on a skid. Strangely it was not a spruce skid or whatever the usually make skids from. It’s some really nice dense wood. So I…

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Innovations from ArcAttack!

By Darcy April 23, 2011 Kinetic Sculpture, Performance No Comments
Innovations from ArcAttack!

I saw ArcAttack! in New York City a while back. I saw them on TV previously which didn’t thrill me too much but seeing them in person was a total…

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Amazing lego demonstration

By Darcy April 22, 2011 Kinetic Sculpture, Robotics No Comments

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