Here’s a video of our machine operating! Everything goes by super fast in the video, but to break things down here’s the flow: 1) The power gets activated. (Shown by pushing the ‘test’ button on the power supply) 2) Power activates the motor which sends the ink tray across the printer. Since the motor would …
September 2011 archive
Sep 19 2011
Rube Goldberg Progress & Damange Report
Our group was able to get our hands on two old printers and had to do something with them. There wasn’t much electronics to work with so we decided to focus on the non-electronic mechanisms that we were able to trigger with what we have and to have fun! So this was what we were thinking: This …
Sep 18 2011
Tangible Musical Interfaces Performance
http://amt.parsons.edu/2011/09/15/tangible-musical-interfaces-performance/ Dr. Sabine Seymour | Assistant Professor of Fashionable Technologypresents Martin Kaltenbrunner, who will discuss his work in sound technology and interaction design. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 80 Fifth Ave, Room 802 6-9pm Martin Kaltenbrunner is Professor at the Interface Culture Lab, University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz. His research concentrates on tangible user interfaces and the …
Sep 16 2011
Scrapyard Junk Walk
Even though I wasn’t here the first week, my neighborhood is perfect for finding lots of tossed out electronics. In fact, we’ve gotten a lot of stuff off the streets immediately around my apartment. Unfortunately, though, the few electronic items we’ve tried have all been broken, but I think that’s partially a matter of just bad …
Sep 14 2011
Reflections on readings
Lessons from the Scrapyard I’ve always had an interest in working with electronics, but since I never really got any practical lessons on how to do it, it always seemed like soemthing that only the technologically savvy could take on and work with. And this article really highlights what I have been wanting to do …
Sep 13 2011
Class Moved to Parsons Building , 6 East 16th Street, Room 1204B
As of today, Tuesday, September 13th class is moved to Parsons Building , 6 East 16th Street, Room 1204B
Sep 13 2011
Junk Hunt
So I just moved to Downtown Brooklyn, by way of California, and I would have thought there would be tons of electronic junk hiding in the crevices of all the buildings. I was so mistaken. I’ve been making it a point to explore/learn my neighborhood everyday, and I have yet to see anything useable for …
Sep 13 2011
Cory Arcangel’s Pro Tools
I went to see the exhibition just before the last day. So I want to shared some photos for some of you that miss to go there! In my opinion, the most interesting part of these series of work. Is how the artist combine the scene of art and technology …
Sep 12 2011
Updated Map and Assignment One
To date the useful things I have gathered on various trash runs include an epson photo quality printer, an oil lamp, poster tubes, a router, and a laptop mouse. Located below is a link to a map of my neighborhood and the locations of good trash areas or areas that I found the above material. …
Sep 11 2011
Assignment #1: Rube Goldberg Machine
Team: Larry Baker Parinot Kunakornwong Marisela Riveros Mark Schindel DAY 1 We pulled apart most of the e-junk we had. One of the printers still worked and had movement so we decided to use it for our machine. MATERIALS: Guitar Hero Digital Video Recorder 2 printers (new and old) Internet router After putting everything apart, …