Markus Lerner created these seven towers with over 110,000 LED’s each. The towers collect traffic data in Munich, Germany, and use wave patterns to depict the corresponding traffic situations in the area. As traffic increases, the waves at the bottom of the panels get larger and increase in speed. There is also a spark which…
Category: Past Student Work
Kinetic Ambient Reflection Membrane
Nicknamed the FLARE system, the kinetic ambient reflection membrane functions as an adaptable building surface. Each individual unit of the system functions as a movable metallic mirror controlled by computer guided pistons. These pistons move each unit to reflect ambient and direct light off of the bright sky and the darker ground. When acting together,…
OiTV by Mark Hauenstein
You know those wonderful moments when the technology gods decide they have it out for you, and all you want to do is throw your computer across the room, smash your cell phone, or smack your television? Well, Mark Hauenstein is here for us all with a product that lets you express those frustrations. He…
Kate Hartman’s Energy Harvesting Sneakers
Kate Hartman is developing shoes which look strangely similar to the popular Heely’s but offer some unique differences. These shoes actually use the energy that the user produces through rolling on the wheels in the shoes soles to power a small microcomputer which resides in the sneaker. This microcomputer can communicate with the user through…
The Three Sirens A Self Learning Rock Band
The Three Sirens is a self learning band created by Nicolas Anatol Baginsky. The band members are all robot musicians who are not controlled by humans, instead they improvised in response to each other. The band members are Aglaopheme, Peisinoe, and Aciilyzer . Since the band has started a few other robots have joined the…
Daniel Rozin “Shiny Balls Mirror”
Daniel Rozin is an interactive artist who uses responsive media to place the viewer of his works into the work itself, making them the focus of whatever piece they are looking at. It seems he has many other interactive “mirrors” that are his trademark. trash mirror, wooden mirror, ripples mirror, peg mirror The reason that this “Shiny Balls Mirror” struck…
Cristobal Mendoza’s interacting mirror
Cristobal Mendoza‘s art work is mostly based on and related towards videos. In this particular piece of work the art can only be seen when the viewer is in front of installation cameras. This triggers the particles on the frame (mirror) to show an image of the viewer.“Ghost Mirror“, is a unique new abstract way…
Clocky: the Alarm Clock that Runs Away
Clocky is another alarm clock that forces its user to get out of bed. The alarm goes off once in its place, but if you hit “snooze,” the second time the alarm sounds, Clocky wheels away and hides. All the while, he keeps up his stereotypical android sounds, or alarm. Even the laziest sleepers will…
Jochem Hendricks -eye drawings
Jochem Hendricks developed a machine that uses infared-,video, and computer techniques to make eye drawings “Augenzeichnungen.” The drawings are done directly with the eyes without use of hands. The machine uses interactions from the human eye to trace the movement. The eye movment is traced and digitilized while the human eye is looking at something….
The Mercenary – Autonomous Paintball Sentry Gun
“The Mercenary”, the worlds first commercially available automatic paintball sentry gun. It tracks and automatically fires upon targets on its own by help of a camera and an on board computer. The on board computer processes real time video, obtains targets using motion and color processers, and then tracks them using predictive logic techniques. Targets…
The New, Fast Electric Car from Tesla Motors
Environmental issues are something I’ve always been interested in since the beginning of high school. Back then, the idea of an electric car would have been a joke. No electric car built during that time was fast or practical. It wasn’t until senior year when I heard of the Tesla Roadster did I have any…
Through the Looking Glass
The looking glass, also known as the mirror is sometimes used as a symbol to represent looking into the future or observing something in another time or place. But in the real world we all know it’s an object which reflects an identical image of whats in front it. With new technology they were able…