Pneumatic Solenoid Sound Pixel Machine

Electrical engineering, Industrial robots,

Quit Your Day Job, Do what You Love,

And now…Balloon Art

@SophiKravitz /

mix-engineering.com

Solenoids require specialized hardware

The concept: walls of round fleshy objects inflating and deflating

….inflating/ deflating in real-time. Choosing a pleasing image of you.

the experience of the physical

requires the participant to be there in front of it

WHY?

Life is more fun

when you

do all of the things that you love

equalitynowforrobotpethybrids.com

Awww….my first robot

Beaker washing robot

Laboratory Glassware Washer Robot

Poisonous Gas canister controller

Trimethylindium

When you work doing what

you love, only

work with people you like…(-Mitch Altman)

Electric vehicles

….and black clouds

To find time to make art, all I had to dowas get fired

Harvard’s Soft Robotics Toolkit

Awesome collaborators

and art-enablers

A whole pile of other stuff arrived too

What’s a solenoid?

Solenoid driver circuit

When you work doing what

you love, only

work with people you like…(-Mitch Altman)

Stuff:

1 compressor1 air tank25 solenoids driving air in25 solenoids driving air out25 balloons25 solenoid drivers

Art-enablers:Mechanical partner building a shipping box: 8 hoursBegging for help on coding forum: 2 daysTO friend bringing a giant compressor here: Skyping so, so muchFriend delivering free solenoids /tubing: hugs

Hardware is hard Parts can be pricey

Shipping art installations

is so stressful!

Gamma Ray Collector

Radiation Orchestra

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant began on 11 March 2011 and resulted in a nuclear meltdown of three of the plant's six nuclear reactors.

Are you texting right now?

Meeting Minder

Virtual Reality : Wobble Wonder

Virtual Reality : Wobble Wonder

Adding a trigger into Unity is easy

void Start () { // init

OpenConnection(); // open serial port

// some more stuff

}

So basically if you see snow

@SophiKravitz /

mix-engineering.com

Do all of the things that you loveAnd do them only with people you like…give 2 weeks notice if necessary