Paper Bits

I made a pair of robotic cat ears.

They respond to brain waves.

They can be made with a makerbot, an arduino, and a neurosky mindwave headset. I’ll be releasing the files and more documentation later this week, when I am at home with real Internet and a proper computer, rather than just my phone.

But for now, here’s a short video of my friend Amber trying to decide what to order at Starbucks, which made the ears wiggle.

I’m kind of proud of that.

bashford:

LumiBots by Mey Lean Kronemann are small, autonomous robots that can leave glowing traces. The robots are equipped with a UV LED at their tail which leaves a glowing trail on phosphorescent sheet. The traces not only create generative images, but have a deeper meaning for the lumiBots: With their light sensors, they can follow the other robots’ as well as their own trails, and amplify them, thus creating an ant-trail-like mechanism luring more and more robots on the same path.

Mesmerizing.

The first chapter of the Music Box Chronicles is a glimpse into the timeless life of Twinklebox, a music box caught in an infinite world, set to his own melody.

(by Aaron Bradbury)

Niklas Roy: My little piece of Privacy

Robotic video curtain tracks people and keeps them from looking inside. (Which draws huge amounts of attention, defeating the purpose, as the creator notes)

Yellow Drum Machine

Cute little robot wants to beat on the drum. Or anything else it can find.