Eight Drunken Immortals

Eight Drunken Immortals is a work by Chinese contempory artist Shyu Ruey-Shiann. This work is currently in the White Rabbit art gallery so it is worth checking out. Eight four-legged robots with wheels for feet and reservoirs of ink on their backs career across a large sheet of paper, scribbling as they go. Their drawings aren’t much to look at, just smeared, roughly circular patches on the floor. This idea could be explored by creating an interactive aspect in which the robots on the floor mimic and move in the way the viewer is moving creating lines in the floor.

Robotic Light Art: Clean & Create with a Roomba Vacuum

Roombas, those little robotic vacuum cleaners, zoom around cleaning the floor without requiring you to lift a finger. Hitting furniture and walls, they simply back up and move in another direction. But what if you mount them with colored LED lights and take long-exposure photographs of their movements?

‘Senseless Drawing Bot’

The ‘Senseless Bot’ is an extremely creative device that sprays paint on a wall randomly. The device uses a ‘double pendulum arm’ and ‘swinging motion’ to produce creative artworks that have a different meaning and aesthetical design each time. This can be very useful to create designs that are unique. I also really like this idea of incorporating sports equipment (Skateboard) to make the robot move and think it is very clever. The thickness of the stroke and colour can definately be played upon.

http://thehopefulmonster.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/senseless-drawing-bot-graffitti-robot-video/

Everyday objects as Artists

Echo Yang programs everyday obsolete machines to create autonomous art:

for ‘autonomous machines’, designer echo yang asks ‘what could happen…in a world in which obsolete machines like hand-powered alarm clocks, walkmans and mechanical toys take center stage?’ in an experiment with old technologies and new, yang has taken a series of various everyday items and hooked them up to mechanisms, which allow them to create artworks on their own. attaching a paint-soaked q-tip to the edge of a chicken tin toy — which spins in an infinite circular pattern — generates a repetitive, vibrantly colored dotted illustration; a pen secured to the edge of a spinning walkman’s wheels draws a concentric design; paint applied to vacuum cleaner brushes brings about an abstract formation

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Shadow Manipulation & Experimenting With Light

Kumi Yamashita plays extensively with the idea of negative space playing the tool of creator, and her various pieces inside her ‘Light & Shadow‘ collection showcase this through the use of shadow to create imagery.

VeilKumi Yamashita

OrigamiKumi Yamashita

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Room lighting as a medium/reflection of the social environment

There are some cool looking installations that light up rooms which could draw from the surrounding social climate. Maybe have noisy parts of the room brighter or more colourful than quiet parts…

http://flavorwire.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/rafael-lozano-hemmer_hemmer_hv16800.jpg?w=660&h=480

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Pulse Room, 2006.

http://flavorwire.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/tunneldowi.jpg?w=662&h=439

Gunda Foerster, TUNNEL, Permanent work at Berlin Deutscher Bundestag

Arduino Starter Kits

If you want to get an Arduino Starter Kit for exploring the potential of electronics at home or to expand on the kit we’re using in class, the following may be useful starting points:

Littlebird Electronics is a local distributor of Sparkfun electronics, as well as loads of other cool stuff for electronics projects. You can get the same kit that we’re using in class from them for A$99.95 at http://littlebirdelectronics.com.au/products/sparkfun-inventors-kit-v3-1

DFRobot is a supplier of all sorts of robot-related kits direct from China, as well as the official Arduino Starter Kit (direct from Italy) they also have there own starter kit, similar to the one by Sparkfun but with a different selection of parts. You can get the kit from them for US$49.50 at http://www.dfrobot.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=345

Seeed Studio is a supplier of electronics parts, many of which have been crowd-sourced in the “bazaar”, they also have a starter kit for US$69.90 at http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/ARDX-The-starter-kit-for-Arduino-p-1153.html

Finally, DealExtreme is a clearing house for all sorts of curious items, including Arduino compatible electronics, often at very good prices. They also offer a kit but don’t expect any instructions to come with it. They offer their kit for A$53.07 at http://aud.dx.com/product/microcontroller-development-type-c-experiment-kit-for-funduino-blue-961199941#.U9XanVY9Log and (unlike DFRobot and Seeed Studio) they have an Australian warehouse, so it’s possible to get your order delivered quickly.

Animatronics

The robot is RIDICULOUSLY scary! But the movements are actually quite fluid.

It reacts to the music that is being played in the background. 

Arduino based robotic arm that copies human movement

Drawing Machine / Drawing, Graffiti, Graphic Design

https://www.behance.net/gallery/3405155/Drawing-Machine

The aim of this machine is to draw by itself, without human intervention, only thanks to the mecanic system. See the website for more information please, thanks.