Machine Thinking

Adaptive Ride Experiment No.1 put members of the general public in charge of trying to first “please” then “scare” and “excite” three bankers on a ride with spins and bucks. The members of the public were allowed to control the ride, but not view their chosen banker directly – instead they had to rely on a few biometric outputs to complete their tasks.

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The people at urban screen have put together an impressive presentation at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg.
from the vimeo page:

The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture – the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle. The Basic idea of narration was to dissolve and break through the strict architecture of O. M. Ungers “Galerie der Gegenwart”. Resultant permeabilty of the solid facade uncovers different interpretations of conception, geometry and aesthetics expressed through graphics and movement. A situation of reflexivity evolves – describing the constitution and spacious perception of this location by means of the building itself.

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Clayton Boyer has designed and built a number of exceptionally beautiful and artful wooden clocks – and sells the plans to make most of them. Some of the videos are made by customers who have completed his designs and I can assume that Clayton is not personally responsible for their choice of music.

Clayton’s youtube channel with more videos

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As a compliment to yesterday’s post on the RepRap 3D printer, Jay Leno shows a practical use for a NextEngine 3D scanner and Dimension 3D printer to replace D valve for a steam powered car. At the end the show a complete cut away steam engine printed in place, even with all of the moving parts. Longer article here

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RepRap is a low cost 3D printer that can make many things out of plastic, including nearly all the parts to make another one. It’s like having a photo printer but instead of replicating photos you can replicate objects. In theory, it could supply many of the objects you use around the house.

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1930s Chevrolet movie with an excellent demonstration of how a car’s differential works. First you get about 1:50 of some fancy motorcycle riding.

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A few weeks ago my industrial arts collective Kinetic Steam Works tested our traction engine, Pappy. Yours truly makes several appearances and is seen far right in the preview image above.

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Will small helpless robots arrive at their destination? The creator, kacie kinzer, writes:

Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.

The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged.

more information at tweenbots.com

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