Posted August 15, 2013 by Chris

“Are you artistic? Do you enjoy creating art? Some may think that art is something only humans can make, but what about robots: can they be artistic? They can if you build them that way. In this robotics engineering project, you will build a robot that creates art. And who knows? Someday your robot art may be worth millions!”

Posted April 16, 2013 by Chris

“I found a nice article on using the twitter search API in python and used it as a base for my script. Here’s what it does: first, it searches for the string ‘my favorite color’ and in practice finds around .1-5 tweets a minute…the script simply cleans up the tweet, removes any strange character like ‘#’ and compares every word of the tweet with my lookup table. The first color string in the tweet wins.”

Posted December 4, 2012 by Chris

“The sculpture has a radial form, arranged around a sound wave generator at the centre of a room surrounded by a set of wall-mounted loudspeakers. The generator is connected to the loudspeakers by a bundle of audio wires running vertically and then branching out to form a sort of tree that shows the pathways of the electrical current.”

Posted October 26, 2012 by Chris

“Using an infrared camera, an InkShield, an ink cartridge with an infrared LED stuck to it, and your arm, you can copy great works of art, or just any old picture.”

Posted August 4, 2012 by Chris

“Convert a standard wax candle into a realistic flickering LED candle. Candles are great for enhancing the ambiance of a room but they deteriorate when used and having a naked flame in your house can be dangerous. My goal was to preserve the look and smell of a traditional wax candle while overcoming their disadvantages.”

Posted January 9, 2012 by Chris

“Each time the PCB passed at 12h00 a hall effect sensor sensed the magnet and generated an interruption. At this time, we have to check the counter to see how many ticks had been passed from this rotation since the last rotation, took this value and divided it by 360. This calculation then gives you the time between each degree.”

Posted November 22, 2011 by Chris

“The project intends to accomplish all computational tasks for the fractal sets using the embedded PowerPC 440 RISC CPU, ultimately for characterization of the CPU-based processing performance. If, in the end, the computational performance lacks significantly for the intended application, selected computational tasks might still be offloaded from the CPU to hardware-based processing.”

Posted September 23, 2011 by Chris

“Art Bots are autonomous machines that paint or draw on a canvas, sheet of paper or a surface of some kind. Systems that utilizes this concept are currently used widely to create generative or algorithmic art. Some Art Bots that were created, walk around the surface of a canvas and paint a composition predetermined by the image or video they use as reference.”

Posted July 25, 2011 by Chris

This project puts any conventional POV to shame by using a different method for tricking our eyes. This 3D display uses an anisotropic spinning mirror to project images from a separate camera that is outputting video at 5000 FPS. An FPGA is used to conquer the raw speed used by this display system.

Posted April 18, 2011 by Chris

This robot has a flamethrower attached so that it can draw any vector graphics on a lawn by torching the grass in its way. Build details are a bit scarce, but the pictures speak for themselves of what this thing can do.