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MRISAR's Interactive Technological Art Sculpture: Photonic Pentiductor

An original Interactive Art Sculpture designed and created by MRISAR’s R&D Team, New Leipzig, North Dakota.

 

Photonic Pentiductor Sculpture is an upgraded version of our Pentiductor that we designed & fabricated in 1993. This features both light and sound attributes. It is an exciting educational exhibit that delights both young and old. It features a touch sensitive oscillator, which also produces light patterns in relation to how the touch plates are operated. The five-sided design makes it adaptable to fill inner floor spaces and to work with both single users and groups.

 

To operate it, touch the metal circle of the Large Touch Plate with one hand and a metal circle on one of the Small Touch Plates with the other hand at the same time. Figuratively in electrical terms, think of the Large Touch Plate as its positive terminal, its Small Touch Plates as its negative terminal and your body as its conductive wire. Optionally many people can use the device together in a number of ways such as having one person touch the large plate and another person touch a small plate and then in turn touch their remaining hands together. Additional people can be added to form a chain between the two users who are touching the large and small plates. The key is to make sure you are touching each other’s skin for conductivity to take place. The device is also able to work with single arm operation should a user have a disability that prevents two-hand use or even with amputee limbs.

 

A version of MRISAR's Super Pentiductor is part of Popnology.

 

The MRISAR Team of New Leipzig, ND collaborated with Stage Nine by creating the robotics, interactive components and landscape for 6 Interactive Exhibits (Mars Probe Rover, Super Pentiductor, Cybermatrix-robotic tic tac toe, Challenge the Robot, a 5 finger Robot Arm Exhibit and a 3 Finger Robot Arm Exhibit) that are part of Popnology, which opened at the Los Angeles Fair in 2015. From there Popnology went to the Arizona Science Center in 2016. See links below for more information.

 

Popnology; from Science Fiction to Science Fact, is a new interactive exhibition that seeks to awe, enlighten and educate its visitors with outstanding displays of technological advances inspired by pop culture. It’s about how technological advances and pop culture have influenced each other. Other exhibitions are: the original DeLorean from “Back to the Future”; The Batmobile from “Batman Forever”; The iconic “Time Machine”; the “Terminator”; replicas of three different Mars rovers from JPL; and the HAL 9000 computer from “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

 

MRISAR is the most versatile Robotics R & D Team in the world. Team members are John and Victoria Siegel and their daughters Autumn and Aurora Siegel who joined the team as preschoolers. All four members are inventors and artists. Everything that MRISAR creates is designed and fabricated in their shops and labs by their team of family members.

 

In 2010 MRISAR, (a business that has Designed, Fabricated & Marketed the Earth’s Largest Selection of “Internationally Renowned & Awarded, World-Class Robotics Exhibits & Devices”; and “Hands On” Scientific, Technological & Interactive Art Exhibits), purchased a disused school on the plains of North Dakota and relocated to it. Profit from their International Exhibit Sales helps fund their Humanitarian R&D and the transformation of the 36,000 sq. ft. complex, surrounded by 10 acres in North Dakota, into a World-Class “Interactive, Robotics, Technology, Invention, Art & Nature Center”.

 

MRISAR website is www.mrisar.com.

 

Links:

 

Featured Exhibition - Arizona Science Center. azscience.org/popnology POPnology offers a riveting, memorable exploration of popular culture’s impact on technology – past, present and future – and its direct effect on how we live and work, how we move, how we connect and how we play.

 

Tickets for the Gala opening were from $500 to $50,000 depending on the seating. azscience.org/Donate/galaxy-gala

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYNBZZF_oQ This is a shop test of our Interactive Technological Sculpture “Super Pentiductor” prior to the Popnology installation.

 

Click this link to see images of Popnology including our robotics. The 3rd image down the page is our 5 Finger Robot Arm. www.raisingarizonakids.com/2016/02/popnology-exhibit-ariz...

 

Click this link to see images of Popnology including the Mars Probe Rover Robotics and landscape we created. downtowndevil.com/2016/02/11/77425/arizona-science-center...

 

Click this link to see images of Popnology including our robotics. cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2016/02/05/arizona-science-center-...

 

Click this link to see images of Popnology including our robotics. www.azcentral.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/kids/2016...

 

Click this link to see images of Popnology including our robotics. www.abc15.com/entertainment/events/popnology-exhibit-brin...

 

 

www.lacountyfair.com/learn/popnology . There are images of our robotics on this page as well as a video at the bottom showing some of our work.

 

www.dailybulletin.com/lifestyle/20150904/popnology-exhibi...

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQwc3rKbmPM This video catches a glimpse of our 3 finger robot arm moving dino eggs, our super pentiductor being used, our 5 finger robot arm and the telepresence control council for our 3 finger robot arm to make it move dino eggs.

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