prosthetic knowledge
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Cardboard Plotter
Handmade manual drawing machine by Niklas Roy made with simple materials - video embedded below:
This plotter is made entirely out of cardboard, welding rod, rubber bands, adhesive tape and super glue. The digital memory is a little book with plenty of different drawing codes, which are written down as coordinates. In this video I’m entering the first code, which makes the plotter draw “hello world”.
You can find out more about the project at Niklas’ blog here
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Lunar Trails
Game art installation which plots every gameplay of a 1970’s arcade machine onto a wall:
Lunar Trails from Seb Lee-Delisle on Vimeo.
From Seb.ly
Lunar Trails is an interactive installation, first commissioned by the Dublin Science Gallery for their GAME exhibition, running from November 2012 to the end of January 2013.
It features a full size arcade cabinet running the vintage 1979 game Lunar Lander. As you play the game, the path that you take is rendered on the wall with a large hanging drawing robot.
The trails build up to produce artworks that are solely created by the game players, and is a reflection of all their individual journeys to the surface of the moon.
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Sand Plotter (Part 2)
Found via Hack-A-Day, a project similar to the previous post that draws patterns on a surface covered with sand, using a metallic ball controlled with a magnet by computer:
[Nick] is working on a prototype of a coffee table sand plotter that draws patterns in sand a lot like a zen rock garden.
[Nick]‘s zen rock garden uses a magnet to draw a ball bearing across the sand in interesting patterns. The build uses 3D printed gears and laser cut parts to rotate the table around and move the magnet along a radius of the circle. During the first test of the prototype, the ball bearing jerked around but this problem was solved by adding a piece of foam under the sand. Power is supplied through a slip ring in the base, and the table is controlled through Bluetooth.
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Sand Plotter (Part 1): Zen Table
Two posts on technology that uses a layer of sand, a ball-bearing, and computer-controlled magnets to draw images in the sand.
Firstly, the Zen Table, which was successfully funded on Kickstarter:
Imagine a Japanese Zen Garden built into a beautifully-crafted, glass-topped table. The body of the table encapsulates electronics and robotics, that sculpt geometric patterns and images into a field of microscopic silicone beads beneath a glass top. The effect is mesmerizing and magical; it is truly Zen-like to watch ever-changing patterns and images appear in the sand.
Here is short promo where you will see it in action:
You can find out more about the project on Kickstarter here
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so… the main deep brass theme of Hans Zimmer’s score for Inception is actually a slowed down version of the “kick music” used by the team in the film, “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” by Edith Piaf.
Very clever
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Plotter Drawings from 1960s
This assembling of early plotterdrawings from the 1960s can be counted among the first steps in Digital Art in Europe as well as in the United States
Via the Digital Arts Museum
