A design project with Jonas Samson. LED illuminated ‘wallpaper’ responds to sensor inputs. Several installations have been built, a.o. one in the tunnel by Schiphol Airport which responds to trains driving past and passengers on the platform. A different installation
The A4 robots are designed aimed at production using a laser cutter with just one A4-size sheet of material. The robots have featured on many exhibits, such as TechFest Mumbai (2012), Gogbot Enschede (2013), Tuin van de Machines (het nieuwe
In this work, I explore how robot cleaners could act as autonomous actors. Some of the cleaners are under remote control, some are ‘hacked’ but most of them simply run their program unaltered. With coffee powder as a subtractive medium.
The Solar Spriral Drawing Sunrise is a small solar powered robot cart driving around a pole. This project by Esther Polak was conceived at the Medialab Prado in Madrid during Interactivos?08. I designed and build the electronics for the first
The ‘Pianomobiel’ aka Frankensteijnway has been built together with Wout Zweers. It has been invited to many festivals for short -mobile- performances, but also to boldly go to places where no piano has gone before.
Pix, the animatronic pneumatic desk light. First featured at Gogbot 2009. Still not completely under control :)
The Ik-a-Sketch has been designed during Mediamatic’s 2009 spin-award winning RFID hackers camp together with Neil Mendoza and shown during PICNIC09 in Amsterdam.
This project was taken on together with graphic artist Marc Otte. Our idea was to make a physical exercise bike connected to SecondLife, to get a real bike to control a virtual one. The project was well picked up in
Roaming around city squares at dusk, carrying in its wake the sounds of the ocean.. This battle-bot inspired larger-than-life horseshoe crab acts as an interactive robot, trailing people. It was first shown at Gogbot in 2007.