Check out the Pianocktail (spelled Pianoctail on the video) featured in VBS.tv’s coverage of ITP’s 2008 Winter Show
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The Pianocktail on Vice’s VBS TV
Monday, August 31st, 2009More Art Robotica
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009These are some of the Paintings that I made with Jackoon at the ITP Spring 2009 show:
Reference image, wasp on a flower:
Collaborative Painting:
Reference image, rodent skull:
Jackoon Painting:
As you can see on the painting of the Skull, Jackoon managed o paint the general area where the skull should be. The brush strokes where not as precise as should be, because the lighting conditions where not optimal at the ITP show so the tracking system was a little off.
Someone at the ITP show told me something really inspiring; “This is the worst work that [Jackoon] and the other artbots will paint. They will only get better.” I agree, even now the paintings are amazing.
Link to pieces that where hanging at the show while Jackoon was making the art above. http://blubee.com/theblog/?p=309
Art Robotica in the ITP Spring Show 2009
Saturday, May 9th, 2009This is some of the art that I showed at the ITP Spring Show 2009 exhibit.
The Art:
“Lemon Wasp” 2009
Acrylic on paper, 48”x 48”
“Daisy” 2009
Acrylic on paper, 48”x 40”
The Art Bots:
Jackoon at work:
Jackoon Painting from Oscar G. Torres on Vimeo.
Art Robotica: Thesis Presentation!
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Art Robotica is a term used to describe the body of work created by the collaboration of “ArtBot” and artist. ArtBots are Autonomous Machines that paint or draw on a canvas, sheet of paper or a surface of some kind. Art Robotica reflects our new codependency and symbiotic relationship with machines. ArtBots are, in essence, collaborators rather than just new tools.
A presentation of Art Robotica was part of ITP Thesis Week 2009.
The thesis presentation was Tuesday May 5, 2009 at NYU’s ITP (721 Broadway, 4th floor)
Web Video Archive:
http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2009/video-stream/
This is one of the paintings created so far:
“Girl” 2009, Acrylic on paper, 48″ x40″
To find out more about Art Robotica visit:
http://blubee.com/artRobotica/
More Art Robotica:
http://blubee.com/theblog/?p=318
Servos.
Thursday, April 16th, 2009So this is what servo motors look like inside.
servos will be needed for my artBot.
And this is what a solenoid valve looks like inside:
the valves was used on the Pianocktail.
Networked Pong
Monday, February 16th, 2009
On assignment for Networked Objects was to make a control system for the pong game. The Game listens for TCP sockets and uses the data from the networked connection to have a multiplayer game.
We are using a WizNet Ethernet Module to make the connection to the Pong Server at ITP. The WizNet Module is connected to an Arduino microcontroller with a WizNet Shield. The Arduino essentially becomes a mini-server that sends information to the pong game which then becomes a competitive, all out battle to win.
Two Important things to keep in mind:
1. WizNet Modules do not come with a MAC address so one needs to be fabricated(at random) or taken from a broken Ethernet card. The hexadecimal number usually looks like this 02:AA:BB:CC:11:22
2. WizNet Modules need an IP address assigned to them. This will be the trickiest step if you don’t know how to set up your own (which should not be that hard). The IP adress for your Module is generally a variation of the IP address of your router. In other words, if your router’s IP adress is 111.222.123.1 then you can guess that an available IP address for your module could be 111.222.123.10 or 111.222.123.20
Once you have these two numbers you can use the Examples in Arduino 12 to make sure that the numbers are working before you use them for your own project. The examples are under the “Library-Ethernet” section which uses the Ethernet libraries.
This is my Photocell setup:
Basically what happens is that when you place your hand over the photocell the pong paddle goes to the left, if you move your hand away then the photocell the paddle stays still, if you take your hand away the paddle goes right.
This is ITP’s Net Objects Class Geeking it out!
this is a video of the controller:
Networked Pong from Oscar G. Torres on Vimeo
4 in 4 project 4: Blinking LEDs on book bag
Friday, January 16th, 2009I always wanted to add blinking LEDs to my bag so that cars and other riders can see me better at night, when i ride my bike.
These are the materials I used for this:
Blinking LED with batteries from radioshack. I also used 4 more LEDs, tape, some wire, solder, and solder iron.
I solder the wire directly to the radioshock LED circuit in parallel and then soldered LEDs to the wire in a parallel circuit.
I then slipped the lights inside the bag, made small holes for the LEDs to stick out and then hand sawed them in place to attach them.
so now I have a bag with blinking LEDs
Pianocktail PREMIERE!
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008Its only a couple of weeks away and the Pianocktail is NOT working yet.
Nevertheless it will work in time for the show. There is no negotiating =)
The Pianocktail has two scheduled shows;
1. Exit Art
475 10th Ave @ 36th ST
New York, NY
Time and Date:
Monday, December 15, 2008
8:00pm - 11:00pm
2. ITP Winter Show
721 Broadway 4th Fl.
New York, NY
Time:
Wednesday, Dec. 17th 2008.
Thursday, Dec. 18th 2008.
5pm-9pm
Pianocktail Progress Report
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
We are making good progress in the Pianocktail. There are 2 more weeks left in the semester and about a month left to do in work. Thankfully we have around 10 or 20 coffee shops around NYU. Can’t wait to take the first sip out of a cocktail mixed by the Pianocktail.
While I write the code, Florica is wiring the circuit together.
As you may see in the pictures there are a bunch of wires that we have to deal with. For every input switch there is a wire and for every output switch there will be 4 wires. There will be 88 input signals and 48 output signals coming and going from the Arduino. This means we have to connect over 280 wires!
What all this means is that we have a lot of wiring to do! Lucky Florica is on it. Oh and did I mention we are re-painting the piano and still need to add the liquid dispensing mechanism?
WAMI Dome at Electronic Social Club Exhibit.
Monday, November 17th, 2008
The WAMI Dome got some exposure at the Electronic Social Club’s Annual Exhibit at Hunter College. Everyone really enjoyed to play with the little dome and its square wave sounds.
This is a video of the dome in action:
The Jimmy (WAMI Dome) at ESC Exhibit. from Oscar G. Torres on Vimeo.