2010 ∞

Happy new year!

Don’t forget to check the video!

I want to stab you with something rusty ∞

DreamMachine Workshop ∞

360 Degres Projection test ∞

Wiring + step by step motor ∞

The idea was to reinterpretate Andy Wahrol’s Dreamachine with nowadays possibilities. In projection technologie, not in drugs

Therefor, we decided to build a projector with a 45 degres mirroir on front of it. The mirror sould be able to rotate on 360 degres, and had to be controled by the computer projecting the image.



Now we have to find a good stepper motor.

I started opening an old floppy, and an old Zip drive.



But the data sheets were to hard to find, so i finally decided to use this own cause it was the same used in Epfl’s e-puck robot, witch is open source, so it was easy the find to drive sequence for this engine.

All I need now is to find a driver. I found a very usefull tutorial by Juan Manuel González on controling a stepper motor with the Wiring Board on theyre website, and i chose to use the same driver, the L293D.



Then I wrote the driving sequence:



void forward(){

digitalWrite(0, HIGH);

digitalWrite(1, LOW);

digitalWrite(2, HIGH);

digitalWrite(3, LOW);

delay(time);

digitalWrite(0, LOW);

digitalWrite(1, HIGH);

digitalWrite(2, HIGH);

digitalWrite(3, LOW);

delay(time);

digitalWrite(0, LOW);

digitalWrite(1, HIGH);

digitalWrite(2, LOW);

digitalWrite(3, HIGH);

delay(time);

digitalWrite(0, HIGH);

digitalWrite(1, LOW);

digitalWrite(2, LOW);

digitalWrite(3, HIGH);

delay(time);

}



And here is the first test:

The Octopus Tool ∞

This tool as been made with Scriptographer

Asking for directions ∞

This tool as been made with Scriptographer

The Sausage Tool ∞

Meat Adobe Illustrator’s missing tool. Hope to have it built-in in CS5





This tool as been made with Scriptographer

450th birthday UNIGE ∞

An other quick edit of an other party where we did visuals. See the video by clicking here.

New Parasite video ∞

We posted a new video of our parasite on Vimeo. Check it here.

atracsys prototype ∞

Last year, we had a workshop with Andreas Gysin on the beMerlin prototype from Atracsys. I found videos in my computer and thought it would be great to publish it!

AV parasite ∞

Ok, after this 200 mph week, here are the first images of the installation we made for the mapping festival. Check the video too!

Soundtrack by Jeff Carey