Author: mgshin@andrew.cmu.edu
Analysis During the visit, our valve mechanism did not work very well. The cardboard flap we had inside the fan duct failed to successfully cut off air flow,…
At the Children’s School, I observed 5-year-olds grabbing a handful of blocks and counting how many blocks they grabbed by placing each block on a table of numbers….
Overview This installation consists of a laser harp that plays sound when a laser is broken by physical intervention. There may be an option to make the lasers…
For the Children’s Museum Visit, I chose to observe the Color Bouncer, which is located in the Attic. The Color Bouncer features groups of red, green, and blue…
Summary Randy the Robot is a self-contained open cube with a personality! He has two IR sensors: one on top and one behind him. Without any human interaction,…
Summary Our two robots are akin to soulmates in love: they finish each other’s song-tences (get it, instead of sentences)! Each bot is equipped with a speaker, a…
Rain Room, 2012 Barbican, London; MoMA, NY; Yuz M, Shanghai; LACMA, LA; The Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, MI Summary Rain Room (2012) is an installation…
Summary I used stored gravitational potential as the operating principle for my device. The servo turns and pushes an eraser which is attached to the first level by…
Summary This simple demo includes a servo motor with a horn that is taped to a wooden chopstick and a cardboard cutout of a hand. Place the device…