Posts Tagged ‘papercraft’
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 [...]
