Posted on January 21, 2018
Independent StudyThis week I discovered something unpleasant: after taking much time to lasercut new pieces for the spooling machine, and for converting the electronics breadboard to soldered electronics on a perfboard, it turns bout the lowest part of the machine’s body is too small to house the electronics… And so I ended up designing a new […]
Posted on January 21, 2018
Advanced Practices in Video, Performance and Electronic ArtsThis week I spent time with Brian, the metal shop technician, to design the metal frame that will hold the motors and the strings. The first idea was to use a metal rectangular tube at the bottom. This way, I would have been able to attach the motor brackets at the bottom, and pass bushings […]
Posted on January 13, 2018
Independent StudyDuring the holidays between the fall semester and the winter semester I have been working on the electronic components of the spooling machine. Things seem complete at this point, next week I will be moving from the breadboard to the perfboard. The back panel I originally lasercut didn’t have a hole big enough for the […]
Posted on January 13, 2018
Advanced Practices in Video, Performance and Electronic ArtsThis semester, I will be spending all my time constructing the full Kinetic Cabinet. The first part is to prepare a 1:1 plan for the metal structure that will hold the motors, the gears and the strings. This is the plan seen above. At first I wanted to have all the strings equidistant to each […]