Archive for the ‘ITP’ Category

Open Studios at the MAD Museum

Saturday, May 18th, 2013

Mad Museum

Starting May 23rd, I will be working every Thursday this summer in the Mad Museum Open Studios.

I will be making lamps and other turned objects from a lathe that looks down on Columbus Circle. Going to be a great summer.

Circuit Building

Thursday, January 17th, 2013

555 Dimmer
555 Dimmer

As a kid, I was really into electronics. I built tons of circuits (none of them ever really worked), then got away from it. Recently I started building them again.

Simple circuits housed inside of two laser cut acrylic panels with standoffs, I like the way these are looking.

Mic Amp
Mic Amp

Laser etching the circuit diagram on the back of the panel will probably be very useful in the future.

555 Dimmer

Turned Foosball Player

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

Turned Foosball Player

A foosball player broke on the ITP table. Figured I’d make something special for my second 4 in 4 project, a player made from walnut.

Walnut Blank and Broken Foosballer

Drilled holes before turning

Turning a Foosball Player

Sanded down the end

He fits on the Foos

Champagne Cork Chairs

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

Champagne Chair

For my first 4 in 4 project I decided to make some small chair models for the Design Within Reach Champagne Cork Chair Contest. One was made from the wire cage and two caps.

Champagne Chair

For the other, I ground up two corks, glued it back together into a blank with wood glue, let it dry, then turned it on the lathe. It made the seat for a small stool.

Champagne Chair

Airplane Simulation

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

Robbie Tilton and Mehan Jayasuriya did a phenomenal job on their Airplane Simulation.

As an interesting exercise teams had to create an interface and then hand it off to be built by another team. Peter Darche and I created the original interface for an airplane simulation using only your body (see below), and the guys took it and turned it up to 11.

In Robbie’s words: Airplane simulation is a webGL game that gives a user the ability to fly an airplane with their body. As a user moves his/her arms and torso around they have full access to roll, pitch, and yaw the plane. The game uses Processing to access Kinect data and then sends it to a node.js server. On the client-side – we’re using chrome to render a webGL canvas using the Three.js library where the movement of the plane is adjusted based on the socket data coming in from the Kinect.

Airplane Controller Instructions - Roll

Airplane Controller Instructions - Pitch

Airplane Controller Instructions - Yaw

Side note: Pill Popper came out of this same exercise.

R.I.C. the Dancing Robot

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013

Meet R.I.C.

Robotic
Interface
Coryphee (means person who performs graceful dance, I had to look it up)

R.I.C. is a dancing robotic puppet and was on display at the ITP Winter Show.

The music is “I’m Going to Get Me a Robot Man” by Ben Light and his Surf Club Boys. No relation.

The Icebox Cometh

Saturday, December 22nd, 2012

The quality isn’t the best, but here is the first (and only) performance of The Icebox Cometh. I worked with Alex Olivier on the puppet show, she did a fantastic job.

The Icebox Cometh

The Icebox Cometh

Mobile Homes Packaging at the ITP Winter Show 2012

Friday, December 21st, 2012

ITP Winter Show - Printing Code

The new packaging design I’ve been working on for Mobile Homes was on display at the ITP Winter Show, for the Printing Code class (taught by the talented Rune Madsen). The goal is to make the packaging something desirable, something you would want to hang on the wall after you open the box.

ITP Winter Show - Printing Code

Each label is unique, the position and shape of the mobile is different for every package.

ITP Winter Show - Printing Code

Puppets at the ITP Winter Show 2012

Friday, December 21st, 2012

Various puppets were on display at the ITP Winter Show.

S.E.A. Monkey
S.E.A. Monkey

Turned Marionette
Turned Marionette

Glove Puppet
Glove Puppet

Bird On A Wire at the ITP Winter Show

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Bird on a Wire - ITP Spring Show

We showed Bird on a Wire at the ITP Winter Show. This time there was no display window, but there was still a physical space to project it on. We placed the birds on acoustic tiles on a curved wall. I really like how this turned out. Great job Christie, Inessah, and Matt.

Bird on a Wire - ITP Spring Show