Artist Archive
Diamond Testing
January 30, 2012
We were most of the way through the main course when our host, a goldsmith by trade, started in on a tale from her shop. “We had a gemologist come in for an appraisal the other day and this guy walks in off the street with a loose stone and asks how much cash he [...]
2012 | Writing | Tags: brightening, diamond, dinner party, lost and found, memory, nothing, test, writingComments (0)
Failed Experiments
January 18, 2012
A few weeks ago I went through all of the photos I’d taken of my experiments with food and electronics and relived the frustration and embarrassment of getting it wrong all over again. There were some experiments that I got *almost* right, but for lack of some knowledge it’s failure highlighted the fact that I was for [...]
2012 | Projects | Tags: batteires, candied leds, electrochemical, electronics, experiments, failed, failure, food, mistakes, PB & J, Peanut Butter and Jelly Battery, rochelle salt, sugar cellComments (0)
Curious Drapery
January 10, 2012
“You can wear the Canadian flag like a cape?!” “Yep” said my boyfriend. “You can’t do that with an American flag” I said. The group of students parted the crowd, chanting and cheering for their country, leaving an easy spot to follow in their wake. My boyfriend fell in behind them and motioned for me [...]
2012 | Writing | Tags: canada, celebration, country, patriotism, writingComments (0)
Foresaken
January 6, 2012
Caught in a moment of contemplation gazing at the passersby, my brother casts rather poetic shadows. The light of day almost obscures the double bandage on his arm, a burn sustained by another contemplating moment caught by a hot stove. It’s fascinating to try and guess the actions that shape the hands of strangers, and [...]
2012 | Writing | Tags: brother, hands, memory, regret, time, writingComments (0)
After a Burning
December 23, 2011
Before dawn on the third Sunday in January ’10 a 20 foot by 50 foot space atop a small hill in western Massachusetts was noticed to be burning. The space, beamed with hemlock and made to encapsulate a community of births, weddings, gatherings and deaths for 170 years of human life, took a few hours [...]
2011 | Writing | Tags: church, community, fire, memory, time, west cummingtonComments (0)
Stranger Things
December 13, 2011
I moved into the apartment located at 10 Oliver Road in the fall after graduating from art school. I had spent the summer working at my family’s campground, feeling held in place by the enormity of the milky way and familial bonds. I moved back to the city to make a better life for myself, [...]
2011 | Writing | Tags: city, strangers, youthComments (0)
Further Testing of Sweet n’ Salty Capacitors
November 17, 2011
After two weeks of measuring daily the electrical potential in a single cell and four cells wired in series, observing physical changes through oxidation/corrosion and multiple recharging and discharging of the cells here are my observations. From October 30th until November 6th, the daily measured electrical potential without load of four cells in series was [...]
2011 | Projects | Tags: alternate energy, capacitor, electronic components, energy harvester, energy storage, homemade, materials test, non-toxic, piezobrine, piezoelectricity, rechargeable battery, sweet n’ saltyComments (1)
Further Testing of Rochelle Salt
November 17, 2011
I took some of the larger salt crystals to Artengine’s Modlab gathering yesterday to perform a mechanical force test to measure voltage on both an analog and digital oscilloscope. For my first test I constructed a holder for a single crystal out of conductive foam and a small sheet of copper. I hooked the ground [...]
2011 | Projects | Tags: analog oscilloscope, electrical potential, hands-on science, home-grown crystals, homemade, materials test, mechanical force test, oscilloscope test, piezoelectric, piezoelectricity, Potassium Sodium Tartrate, rochelle saltComments (1)
Sweet n’ Salty Capacitor
October 28, 2011
I started this experiment attempting to create a low voltage non-toxic battery that would be easy to make and carry around. I may yet do this but for now I’ve created a capacitor, which is a electrical component used to store energy in an electric field. I chose to make the housing or shell out [...]
2011 | Projects | Tags: alternate energy, capacitor, electronic components, energy harvester, energy storage, hard candy shell, homemade, non-toxic, piezobrine, piezoelectricity, sweet n' saltyComments (10)
Making Rochelle Salt
October 28, 2011
Piezoelectricity is the charge that accumulates in solid materials in response to applied mechanical stress. Substances that exhibit piezoelectric properties to a greater or lesser extent are crystals (Tourmaline, Quartz, Topaz, Rochelle salt and sugar cane), certain ceramics and biological matter such as bone, DNA and various proteins. Quartz and Rochelle salt exhibit the greatest amount [...]
2011 | Projects | Tags: baking soda, cream of tartar, growing crystals, hands-on science, homemade, piezoelectric, piezoelectricity, Potassium bitartrate, potassium hydrogen tartrate, Potassium Sodium Tartrate, rochelle salt, soda ash, Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate, washing sodaComments (1)
Pumpkin Battery Aftermath
October 24, 2011
After posting my tutorial on the creation of the pumpkin battery I left it on the windowsill for lack of a better place to put it. I expected the energy output to decrease over time and when they were massively moldly I’d be coaxed to remove them from the apartment. Because I’m a curious person, [...]
2011 | Projects | Tags: alternate energy, baby boo pumpkin, biobattery, electrochemical cell, fall center piece, food battery, galvanic cell, gelatin salt bridge, green, halloween, jack o’ lantern, pumpkin batteryComments (0)
Pumpkin Battery
October 17, 2011
Here is a fun food hack I did over the weekend that is a useful alternative to lighting jack o’ lanterns with candles or traditional batteries on Halloween. It could also double as a center piece for the fall and is easily made with common household items. You’ll need miniature pumpkins (I used Baby Boo), unflavored [...]
2011 | Projects | Tags: alternate energy, baby boo pumpkin, biobattery, electrochemical cell, fall center piece, food battery, galvanic cell, gelatin salt bridge, green, halloween, jack o' lantern, pumpkin batteryComments (0)
Candied LEDs
August 29, 2011
A fun experiment combining simple electronics and common food stuffs. You’ll need 4 cups of sugar, 2 cups of water, wire, electrical tape, assorted LEDs, paper cups, wax paper, a stove and a medium sized pot! Boil the 2 cups of water in the medium sized pot, adding the sugar 1 cup at a time [...]
2011 | Projects | Tags: candied leds, food electronics, fun science experiment, hands-on science, rock candy leds, sugar crystals, sugar-coated leds, sugared ledsComments (1)
Regal Squid Rabbit
August 14, 2011
2011 | Art | Tags: character art, curious creatures, fantasy art, regal squid rabbit, watercolorComments (0)
Time as a Giant Eyeball in PHP
June 23, 2011
I’ve been learning how to code in PHP over the past couple weeks for a currently undisclosable exciting opportunity in Ottawa and here is my first web application written primarily in PHP. It is a visual clock made from code that queries the server for the current time and creates three ovals filled with a [...]
2011 | Projects | Tags: circular web, HTML, Javascript, natural web, organic web, PHP, PHP clock, PHP graphics, time in PHP, time on the web, visual clock, web applicationComments (0)
LCRC Kinetic Painting with Robots Workshop
May 18, 2011
After making tiny vibrating robots from the head of a toothbrush, dipping it in paint and watching them spin on paper, I asked the kids if they were the artists or if the bots were. Mostly the answer was “It tickles!” In this final workshop for 6 to 8 year olds at the LCRC after [...]
2011 | Artengine | Tags: abstract expressionism, after school workshops, art robots, artengine, bristlebots, co-creation, kinetic art, kinetic painting, lcrc, ottawa, robotic art, robotsComments (0)
LCRC Homemade Papercraft Batteries Workshop
May 11, 2011
In front of a room of 25 astonished faces I dipped my finger into the brine and dabbed the last of the water onto the flower, the LED popping on and cries of “But but…where’s the battery?” echoing amid “Wait…what?” This workshop focused on understanding how a battery works by taking the traditional model of [...]
2011 | Artengine | Tags: after school workshops, alternate energy, artengine, clean energy, homemade battery, lcrc, LEDs, ottawa, paper battery, paper circuitry, papercraft, salt water powerComments (4)
LCRC LED Foldie and Pac-Man Tag Game Workshops
April 28, 2011
Amid screams and shouts the stamping feet of 25 kids jumping from line to line to avoid the ghosts chasing them, their hands cupped tightly around tiny cubes of light illuminated by LEDs, echos up to the rafters in the darkened gym. Gosh those kids were loud. This game was the culmination of a two [...]
2011 | Artengine | Tags: after school workshops, arcade games in real life, artengine, interactive, interactive art, large scale human video games, lcrc, LED foldies, LED-lit cubes, LEDs, ottawa, Pac-Man, pac-man tag game, paper circuitry, papercraftComments (0)
LCRC Squishy Circuit Workshop
April 12, 2011
We’ve underestimated the potential use of energy emanating from 25 excited kids eating sugared playdoh. I reached this conclusion shortly after starting to talk about squishy circuits with a group of 6-8 year olds at the LCRC after school program. This project is part of Artengine’s community arts initiatives and is funded by the Community Foundation of Ottawa. [...]
2011 | Artengine | Tags: after school workshops, artengine, conductive dough, hands-on science, insulating dough, lcrc, LEDs, ottawa, playdoh, soft circuits, squishy circuitsComments (2)
Artist-in-Residence at Artengine
January 20, 2011
At the end of December I was invited to be Artengine‘s first Artist-in-Residence. Artengine is a non-profit artist-run center with a focus on community outreach through tools and resources for creating electronic and interactive art. My work will focus on leading art and electronics workshops, creating my own interactive art projects and helping to further [...]
2011 | Artengine | Tags: 3D Printing, arduino, artengine, artist-in-residence, awesome arts festival, bombIR, free workshops, LED foldies, light graffiti, lowertown, lowertown community resource centre, Makerbot, opensource, ottawa, Pac-Man, paper circuitry, papercraft, papertronics, processing, Scratch, Soldering, wearable technology, web design, web development, wiimoteComments (0)
Designing Nature and Time into the Web
January 3, 2011
This past month was spent planning and designing a web application for people to take advantage of the enormous amount of space dedicated to outdoor play in Ottawa. One of my first impressions when I moved to this city was how easy it was to go from busy city streets to quiet parks in a [...]
2011 | Art, Projects | Tags: Art, circular web, css, design, google maps, Javascript, natural web, open data, ottawa, outdoor play, porthole web page, Projects, spaces of play, time on the web, web applicationComments (1)
What Twirling Will Do
December 3, 2010
As they began twirling I was curious to see what the motion would look like through the filter of a microgalactic lens. The lens captured movement in nanoseconds and I witnessed an unusual unfolding… The girl with her handkerchief raised high knew what positive thoughts could do and her fist started eddies of hiccuping light. [...]
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, atmospheric art, atmospheric effects, deep sea creature, deeper connections, digital art, emotional connection, emotional creatures, fantasy, helper creature, microgalactic, microgalactic lens, positive thoughtsComments (2)
What Brings The Snow
November 17, 2010
She was laughing at something I said and didn’t see what passed behind her. “Aren’t you cold?” I asked. “No.” she said.
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, atmospheric art, atmospheric effects, digital art, emotional connection, emotional creatures, fantasy, helper creature, snowComments (1)
The Culture of Making
November 10, 2010
Over this past weekend 40 makers and a handful of volunteers gathered together in the nation’s capital, laden with gadgets and moded parts, cloth and paper, Arduino boards and LEDs, and brought the first Maker Faire to Canada. The makers came from all over Canada and the U.S.- some as far as 8 hours away [...]
2010 | Projects | Tags: art and tech, artengine, diy, electric fields festival, electronics, hacker, hackerspaces, hardware, innovation, maker, maker culture, maker faire, making, mini maker faire, open source, ottawa, ottawa maker faire, ottawa mini maker faire, ProjectsComments (4)
Waiting on Rideau Street
November 5, 2010
“I’m glad you could get off work early” he said. “Me too.” she responded. She reached over to take his hand while the light changed to red.
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, atmospheric art, atmospheric effects, joy, memory of movements, movement memory, thought visualization, visual conversation, visualized thoughtsComments (0)
On The Mountain
October 15, 2010
“Be careful here.” A soft gust of wind pushed her back towards her friends. “..Yes Dad.”
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, atmospheric art, atmospheric effects, digital art, emotional connection, emotional creatures, fantasy, helper creature, visual emotionComments (2)
Dancers
October 5, 2010
“…and HOLD!” They looked at her expectantly, the memory of movements practiced already accumulating in corners and sifting softly to the floor. Outside a car honked sharply, causing more of the girls’ thoughts to fall. “AGAIN!”
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, atmospheric art, atmospheric effects, memory of movements, movement memory, thought visualization, visual conversation, visualized thoughtsComments (1)
LED Acorn Lantern
September 26, 2010
I went for a bike ride through Gatineau Park with some friends yesterday and while we rested I was inspired by the large amount of acorns on the ground. An acorn is the perfect size to house an LED light and battery for a different take on LED Throwies developed by Graffiti Research Lab. I [...]
2010 | Projects | Tags: acorn light, DIY project, hacking nature, led, LED acorn lantern, LED acorn light, LED acorn throwie, LED lantern, LED throwie, ProjectsComments (0)
You Need to Ask First
September 23, 2010
… if you want to know more about me” she said. He stared at the sand between his shoes. “Okay… what do you like to do?” “Oh, you know… stuff.” “…Like?” She laughed and the pocket of air surrounding them popped, filling them both with warmth. He grinned and looked at the sand again.
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, atmospheric art, atmospheric effects, digital art, emotional connection, emotional creatures, love, text visualization, visual conversation, visual emotionComments (0)
And So It Was
September 13, 2010
that we discovered there is no such thing as distance at all.
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, atmospheric art, atmospheric effects, emotional connection, photoshop, visual emotionComments (0)
A Conversation on the Sidewalk
September 10, 2010
She looked up from her half finished text and stared in wonderment and fear. It responded with a harmonized hum and a new message appeared on her phone: “<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 [...]
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, atmospheric art, atmospheric effects, digital art, emotional creatures, fantasy, love, text visualization, visual conversationComments (0)
Girls in Conversation
August 31, 2010
“And then he walked past and I was like…[screech]!” “LOL! What did you do?” “I just stared. I’m such an idiot!”
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, atmospheric art, atmospheric effects, conversation visualization, visual conversationComments (0)
If There’s No Good News Then Make Your Own
August 20, 2010
Hansy Better has done it! Our first ever grantee of the Awesome Foundation was featured on the front page of Thursday’s Boston Globe for making the largest portable hammock in the world. [Thanks Reed for the picture] The hammock is made of 4,278 feet of rope made from recycled bottles inspiring both public and environmental [...]
2010 | Awesome Foundation | Tags: awesome, Awesome Foundation, giant hammockComments (2)
LED Origami Brooch And Thoughts On Foo Camp
June 30, 2010
Ah, Foo Camp. Over this past weekend hoards of thinkers, makers and doers descended on the gorgeous Xanadu of the O’Reilly Media headquarters in Sebastopol, CA. Invited by Tim O’Reilly to participate in a free-form weekend of focused and unfocused conversations and talks concerning current and emerging ventures in technology, it was a nerd’s paradise. [...]
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, foo, foocamp, led, led origami, origami, Other, papercraft, ProjectsComments (1)
Glorious Monster Back
June 17, 2010
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, cute, monster, pen and ink, photoshopComments (0)
“Why Thank You” she replied.
June 12, 2010
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, digital art, fantasy, golden goggles, photoshop, scifiComments (0)
The Perspective Between Two Doors
June 1, 2010
The end of last month marked an important milestone in my life. I realized along with my co-founders and partners that the direction our studio was headed in was not the direction we had originally intended. Our business had transformed from a shared passion for projects that bridged the gap between art and technology to [...]
2010 | DINO | Tags: business development, DINO, entrepreneurship, growth, small business, startupComments (0)
And Then It Wasn’t
May 24, 2010
Having survived a drop the distance of 500 feet, the monster opened it’s one functioning eye to perceive lamposts and the undersides of two fighter ships descending to street level. It heard a soft shriek and footsteps nearby followed by the high-pitched whistle of missiles launched. There was an acrid sweet smell in the air [...]
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, digital art, fantasy, london, monster, scifi, storyComments (0)
Sacred and Profane
May 15, 2010
This is a drawing I did many years ago for a life drawing class- we had to select objects that we felt contained elements of being sacred or profane in a still-life arrangement and draw them from hand. From Wikipedia: The concept of sacred and profane comes from French sociologist Emile Durkheim; the dichotomy between [...]
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, drawing, fabriano paper, graphite drawing, illustration, sacred and profane, still lifeComments (0)
Ouroboros Ring Game
May 14, 2010
These images were created as the first level in a meditative puzzle game where the player is given a mixture of inverted and rotated rings and has to flip and spin the rings to match the lines of the light and dark side to advance. I originally drew this freehand in my sketchbook with a [...]
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, art game, drawing, ouroboros, ouroboros rings, pen and ink, puzzle gameComments (0)
New Friends
May 5, 2010
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, atmospheric effects, character art, digital art, monsters, photoshopComments (0)
Mushroom Sprite from iPad App Akina
May 4, 2010
This sequence of images is based off the growth cycle of a Fly Agaric mushroom, or Amanita muscaria, and is one of the sprites I made in Photoshop for DINO’s iPad art generative application Akina. According to Wikipedia there are a great many stories surrounding the use of this mushroom, the most interesting of which [...]
2010 | Art, DINO | Tags: akina, Art, digital art, DINO, game art, game sprite, ipad game, mushroom sprite, photoshopComments (0)
HTML5 Game Pits Bjork Vs. Cthulhu
April 27, 2010
Over this past weekend my friend Darren Torpey and I ran the second in a series of game jams at the Sprout/DINO space in Somerville, MA. I had recently heard about Kesiev who created an open HTML5 game engine called Akihabara and wanted to try it out since we only had 23 hours to create [...]
2010 | Projects | Tags: akihabara, akihabara game engine, art game, bjork, cthulhu, HTML5, HTML5 game, Javascript, Projects, SHUMPComments (5)
Variations on a Flower made with Adobe Illustrator
April 19, 2010
2010 | Art | Tags: abstract, Art, digital art, flower variations, illustratorComments (0)
Creating Artistic User Interfaces
April 13, 2010
With Akina out for a little over a week it was good to have some time to flesh out any UI tweaks to the app and make it more user friendly. With that meant taking a controller with already very visually and abstractly defined elements, and making it easier to navigate with, without losing the [...]
2010 | Art, DINO | Tags: Art, artistic interface, digital art, DINO, ipad game, ipad ui, ui, user interface, uxComments (0)
Variations on a Theme: Putting Art in Business Cards
April 10, 2010
Using some of the elements I recently created for our website, I set to making business cards that matched our style. This whimsical and slightly abstract unknown world I created incorporates our business logo into the art. On the back will be our contact information, leaving the front dedicated to having a tiny piece of [...]
2010 | Art, DINO | Tags: Art, artistic business cards, brand design, business cards, DINOComments (0)
Using Physical Objects to Interface with the iPad
April 3, 2010
Over this past week my partners and I at DINO Interactive Studios have developed an iPad application that allows input from a specific grouping of ‘fingers’ from the bottom of three objects. When you place the object on the screen surface of the iPad, flowers and vines grow from underneath the object. This corresponds to [...]
2010 | Art, DINO, Projects | Tags: akina, Art, artistic interface, DINO, ipad, physical objects interface, physical ui, Projects, ui, uxComments (1)
Mustache Jelly
March 20, 2010
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, digital art, jellyfish, monster, monster jellyfish, mustache jelly, photoshopComments (0)
you are mine
March 17, 2010
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, baby triangle, digital art, ghost tentacles, monster, photoshopComments (2)
DINO Game Jam
February 22, 2010
This weekend DINO Interactive Studios hosted a game jam and interactive project creation session at the Sprout space in Somerville that spanned both Saturday and Sunday. Our jam lasted 27 hours total and had 12 participants and teams either creating new games from scratch or reworking current games and adding new features. We had a [...]
2010 | Art, DINO, Projects | Tags: Art, collaborative, DINO, dino jam, game, game jam, interactive, ProjectsComments (0)
Giant Snail Take Over
February 21, 2010
This weekend DINO hosted a game jam and interactive project creation session that spanned both Saturday and Sunday. Typically the purpose of a game jam is for teams or lone creators to make a working project in either 24 or 48 hours. Sometimes there is a theme or things that you must incorporate into the [...]
2010 | Art, Projects | Tags: Art, giant snails, interactive, paper game, papercraft, ProjectsComments (0)
Smile or Else…
February 5, 2010
Lauren McCarthy, winner of the Awesome Foundation- Boston grant for December wants to teach you some manners. Specifically, how to improve your social interactions for the betterment of all. Through three different handmade devices she proposes that the wearer will be happier, more focused and more personable in conversation. The Happiness Hat works by jamming [...]
2010 | Awesome Foundation | Tags: Awesome Foundation, interactive, lauren mccarthy, lilypad arduino, soft circuits, wearable technologyComments (2)
Business Cards with Teeth
January 19, 2010
With a pitch to a potential client due the next day and an intense desire to put our best foot forward, there wasn’t much time to make our cards in bulk so I made them the old fashioned way- clicks, beeps, cuts and voila. We’ll probably revise it a bit more later but we each [...]
2010 | Art, DINO | Tags: Art, business cards, creation process, DINOComments (3)
A Difference in Desks
January 17, 2010
January 15th, 2010 marked my last day working at the company I had worked at for 6 1/2 years. It was my first job out of college and it was through them that I cut my teeth in the business world. I had been promoted through the ranks from test proctor to school director which [...]
2010 | DINO | Tags: business development, DINO, entrepreneurship, new beginnings, small businessComments (7)
The Logo Creation Process of DINO
January 10, 2010
This weekend I created the logo for DINO interactive studio. Aaron had a fun idea on a post-it note that I ran with. I drew a couple sketches then took pictures and loaded them into Adobe Photoshop. After playing around a bit Aaron opened my eyes up to the wonderful world of vector aesthetics and [...]
2010 | Art, DINO | Tags: Art, business development, creation process, DINO, logo, logo creation, small businessComments (2)
Interactive Paper Art
December 8, 2009
It’s been a while since I’ve worked on this but here are two examples of a simple way to integrate LED lights into a piece of art to change the story and engage the viewer with the 2-dimensional surface of the drawing. In Robodino Bond, pressing the dinosaur’s heart causes the robot’s electronic heart to [...]
2009 | Art, Projects | Tags: Art, interactive, LED art, papercraft, papertronics, ProjectsComments (0)
Doing Good
December 1, 2009
I got into a debate with my mom and my sister the other day about how much influence a person has over their personal network, how extended communities interact with each other and what happens to these communities when your actions show how you choose to live. My mom and my sister were not convinced [...]
2009 | Uncategorized | Tags: collaborative, entrepreneurship, Other, philanthropy, small business, webComments (0)
Ambient Text Mashup of Modest Mouse
November 22, 2009
Processing is amazing. I can’t say enough good things about an open source intuitive language built to allow *everyone* easy access to a wide array of tools and resources made for developing visual programs and interactive fun. This weekend I took part in Music Hack Day at the Microsoft Startup Labs in Cambridge and built [...]
2009 | Art, Projects | Tags: Art, collaborative, modest mouse, music hackday, processing, Projects, text visualizationComments (3)
A First on Google Wave
November 19, 2009
My friend kittenthebad did a rally call to her friends the other day to join an Intro to Java class she was teaching on Google Wave. She had set up instructions ahead of time for people to download Eclipse and when the time came we proceeded through her slides and demos while she held an [...]
2009 | Uncategorized | Tags: collaborative, google, google wave, interactive, Other, webComments (1)
Levels of ‘stashe
November 18, 2009
This was a fun project- the mustache man below is the main character in a game created in Processing by my friends and I over this past weekend. The basic premise to the game is that you play the role of a newspaper editor trying to maintain a balanced coverage of news stories coming through [...]
2009 | Art, DINO, Projects | Tags: Art, DINO, game art, interactive, processing, Projects, spriteComments (0)
A Forceful Application of Sugar
October 18, 2009
What you are looking at here is the prototype for dynamic confectionery goodness. Made out of the extruding parts of an espresso machine, drill bit funnel, 1/2 soda bottle, 12 volt motor and a lot of sugar this machine is set to stun and compel the world into Type II diabetes. The machine is a [...]
2009 | Awesome Foundation | Tags: Awesome Foundation, cotton candy cannon, josh gordonson, projectile candyComments (3)
boston in the dark and wet
October 5, 2009
2009 | Art | Tags: Art, boston, photography, prudentialComments (1)
***some.
October 4, 2009
When Tim Hwang started batting around the idea of the Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences 4 months ago I really didn’t know what to expect. Assembling 10 friends together to give $1000 every month in an elaborate ceremony to fund the start of some absurd or largely irrelevant project seemed, well, a trifle [...]
2009 | Awesome Foundation | Tags: Awesome Foundation, collaborative good, philanthropyComments (0)
~awesome is as awesome does~
August 8, 2009
Giant pretzels? Yes. Giant check? Yes. Giant hammock? YES. So went the evening of Friday August 7th 2009. The trustees and friends of the Awesome Foundation gathered at 50 Church St. to award Hansy Better $1000 to make a giant hammock for public use in Boston Common: Our first ever awesome grant to an awesome [...]
2009 | Awesome Foundation | Tags: Awesome Foundation, giant hammock, hansy better, public artComments (0)
…and DINO is born.
August 4, 2009
On or around April 27th, David Nunez, Aaron Waychoff and I decided to build a space to inspire people to make, do and learn. It’s main focus is to build the community of hackers & makers in Boston and give people the support and knowledge they need to create and share their projects and ideas. [...]
2009 | DINO, Projects | Tags: DINO, petridish, Projects, sproutComments (1)
I like giant helpful tables
July 22, 2009
Within the MIT media lab, through four doors and up three flights of stairs stands a great table. Roughly 6×10 feet of mesmerizing tactile phantasmagoric construction, the MemTable by creator Seth Hunter is indeed real and highly prone to the continuous company of men peering into it’s depths. I got to take part in a user study [...]
2009 | Uncategorized | Tags: collaborative, geek, interactive, OtherComments (1)
Offen! {that is German for open.}
July 14, 2009
What do you get when you cross a lock-picker and a jeweler? a) a magical mythical beast b) a mildly obsessive conversation about intricate tools c) a magnetic pin finisher solution to a nook & cranny polishing problem d) all of the above For those of you who’ve never had an extended conversation with a [...]
2009 | Dorkbot | Tags: Dorkbot, locksportComments (3)
A Very Tiny Sound Pushpin
June 29, 2009
Lesson learned: Do not post a how to on a ‘sound-generating’ pushpin before checking that it consistently generates said sound. In this case, it moves [which is nice] and makes some sound [which is nice] but when it hits something in it’s way it stops [which is not so nice]. The micro vibration motor is [...]
2009 | Projects | Tags: Projects, sound pushpin, tiny sound deviceComments (0)
The Awesome Foundation
June 25, 2009
In the name of all that is glorious we bring you: The Awesome Foundation. What is this you ask? It’s a monthly no-strings micro-grant given to people making awesome things. Period. Who is giving away this crazy amazing free money? David Nunez (Dorkbot Boston) Reed Sturtevant (Director, Microsoft Startup Labs) Emily Daniels (Dorkbot Boston) Keith Hopper [...]
2009 | Awesome Foundation, Projects | Tags: Awesome Foundation, collaborative good, philanthropy, ProjectsComments (0)
What is the smallest unit of funk?
June 24, 2009
Tonight I went to an event put on by my friend Josh Rosenstock at MassArt called the Shrine to the Funky Drummer: an experimental documentary/video mixtape/mashup he had been working on as artist in research at the Berkwick. It was a great piece and it got me thinking to create an interactive James Brown polyester [...]
2009 | Projects | Tags: ideas, interactive, Projects, wearable technologyComments (2)
Sound-generating Pushpin
June 7, 2009
After BYOR night I started experimenting and forming tiny sound sculptures built on the head of a pushpin- the idea came from the cheap accessibility of making LED Throwies and the random fun that comes with harmless graffiti. I took a mini pager motor, a 3 volt battery, some aluminum foil and wire, the pin and of course [...]
2009 | Projects | Tags: Projects, sound pushpin, tiny sound deviceComments (0)
Bring Your Own Robot Night Got Brought
June 4, 2009
Fun night tonight- set up shop at True Grounds near Davis Sq. and invited hacker/maker friends to join me in working on projects- Jimmie made some LED throwies, Brett cooked the rug a bit with his hacked toaster and Gideon showed us all up with his wax etching printer! I brought the pieces of crybot [...]
2009 | Dorkbot | Tags: collaborative, Dorkbot, geek, robotComments (3)
It’s Alive!
May 24, 2009
Three 9 volt batteries later, the little pump I got at the MIT swap is projectile throwing soon-to-be tears into crybot’s belly. Yesssss!!
2009 | Projects | Tags: crybot, emotional robots, Projects, robotComments (0)
Playing With A Creepy Cave Crab
May 23, 2009
CCC Play Video A while ago I was the self-appointed minion to Jimmie Rodgers’ creepy cave crab project for Willoughby & Baltic’s Halloween show at the Charles River Museum of Industry. as you can see from this movie the crabs are indeed creepy and crabby and liked the dark. [A single hex schmitt trigger [...]
2009 | Uncategorized | Tags: geek, interactive, led, Other, photocell, robot, sound artComments (4)
$35 Gets You This!
May 17, 2009
Successful spoils from MIT’s Swapfest today: Some stuff strange [vintage Burton-esque rake and the ugliest heat-sink ever] Some stuff questionably fun [Hermes 811 calculator w/ vacuum tubing + Heathkit ‘color generator’] Some stuff useful [a real clamp! and a hand-powered drill to replace my Dremel in case power goes out] Some stuff that [...]
2009 | Uncategorized | Tags: geek, MIT swapfest, OtherComments (0)
Ode To An Abhorrent Water Pump
May 16, 2009
What you see here is a half-hacked mini aquarium water pump ‘clamped’ to my desk with duck tape and its suction feet helpless to the impending battle bt. Dremel and weird green resin/plastic casing. What you do not see is my look of utter disgust and defeat while I came to grips with the fact [...]
2009 | Projects | Tags: crybot, emotional robots, Projects, robotComments (1)
Sound Throwie
May 13, 2009
Modeled after the LED throwie, this device is easily inserted into walls/porous surfaces with it’s pin backing and a mini-pager motor runs it’s rasping aluminum foil wings as it generates tiny brushing sounds.
2009 | Projects | Tags: ideas, Projects, sound art, tiny sound deviceComments (0)
Sentient Arduino
May 13, 2009
Some things are too easy- I googled Arduino code for PIR sensor, clicked the first on the list, ctrl c + ctrl v’d and whamo- a functioning sensing program.
2009 | Projects | Tags: arduino, crybot, emotional robots, Projects, robotComments (0)
Basic Tools
May 9, 2009
I took this pic in Oct 2008 when I first started collecting thing that would help form the basis of projects I was thinking of. A captured commemorative event of my realized and accepted geekness. I labeled all the compartments of this box with its contents: PNP type transistors. NPN type switching transistors. IC sockets. [...]
2009 | Uncategorized | Tags: electronic tools, Other, toolsComments (0)
1st!
May 7, 2009
of many I hope.
