people doing strange things with electricity

dorkbot Cardiff #8 • 24th May 2012

Murphy

For dorkbot Cardiff #7 we had augmented reality ceramics, electronic bagpipes, phantom balls, EMF camp and some android/processing stuff

Line up:

Paul Woodford
MA Design student in Newport University

"Last year I had participants kicking invisible footballs (by breaking Laser beams) into a goal whose LEDS lit up if you scored + drunken crowds singing 'Ring of Fire.'
This year participants learn to 'control' the installation's image by moving Handle-bars, which in turn drive motors attached to a bowl of liquid!
The resulting image is captured by a webcam and projected. Code of course tells arduino what to do."

EMF Camp 2012

Peter Hathaway introduced EMF Camp 2012: Electromagnetic Field 2012 is a three-day camping festival for people like you! A great opportunity to meet like-minded people, to learn, to teach, to play, and have a drink with a stranger. A festival for anyone interested in 3D printing, DIYBio, knitting, electronics, Internet culture, music hacking, space, lockpicking, homebrewing, robots, UAVs, mind hacking, radio, or pretty much anything else you can think of... in a field!
Ingrid Murphy

Ingrid is the winner of both the University of Glamorgan Purchase Prize for Ceramics and the Prix Select at AIR, Vallauris, and co-founder of La Perdrix Art Centre, Dordogne, France. In 2010 she received a Creative Wales Award, the largest award given to individual artists in Wales, which enabled her to explore haptic technologies i.e. the science of applying touch (tactile) sensation and control through interaction with computer applications.
Philip Edwards

Phil plays for three local Morris d ance sides. He is also a member of the Bagpipe society. Originally, as a piper, he focussed his attention on a musical rarity, the Welsh bagpipe. More recently he has taken up the Anders Fagerstrom Technopipe, which he will demonstrate at Dorkbot.
Open dorks

dorkbot Cardiff's Paul Granjonpresented ongoing experiments with Android devices and Processing.