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What does it take to create self-aware robotic instruments out of a piece of paper? A workshop was only the start of a new type of avant-garde robotic origami music performances.

 

Oribotics, a combination of origami and robotics, offers fascinating possibilities – from tiny biomedical devices to the giant James Webb Space Telescope. Together with a team of researchers, key researcher and artist Matthew Gardiner has been developing Oribotics since 2010 at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. With oribotic instruments, the team found a playful way to give robotic origami a musical expression: In a workshop, participants were able to create the paper-based instruments themselves. The potential of the avant-garde instruments was showcased during the festivities for the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s 25th anniversary.

 

Credit: Ars Electronica Futurelab: Arno Deutschbauer, Matthew Gardiner, Anna Oelsch

 

Funded through the FWF Austrian Science Fund, PEEK Program

 

More about Oribotic Instruments:

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Photo: Denise Hirtenfelder

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The VIIRS instrument collects visible and infrared imagery and global observations of land, atmosphere, cryosphere and oceans. The VIIRS instrument is currently flying on-board Suomi NPP and has arrived at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for integration on the JPSS-1 spacecraft.

 

Credit: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

Survey instrument vintage with box

My "good" violin -- well, it's better than the other one, anyway. :) A pleasant sort of student instrument, a Roth by Scherl & Roth Strad copy, built in 1982 in Germany and adjusted in Cleveland.

 

My love for it is irrational and unshakeable.

National Instruments VirtualBench Teardown

Panel shot inside a Cessna 150 during flight.

DaveSmith Instruments "PolyEvolver"

Glimpses from the surgical instrument manufacturing industry of Sialkot, Pakistan

to touch, to play an instrument

tocar

 

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Imagine a Spanish speaking artist (like Manu Chao, Paco de Lucía, Joaquín Sabina, Carlos Santana…) playing their instrument with their «toes».

 

“He played the guitar and she played the piano.”

“Él tocaba la guitarra y ella tocaba el piano.”

 

Original picture: www.flickr.com/photos/92309727@N07/13679235193

This fiddle bears the label of the Helland Brothers of Cameron, Barron County, Wisconsin. Knut Helland (ca. 1880-1920) and Gunnar Helland (1889-1976) were part of the third generation of the noted Helland/Steintjønndalen family of Hardanger fiddlemakers in Bø, Telemark, Norway. The brothers came to the Chippewa Falls area in the early twentieth century and established a violin workshop.

 

This object is the property of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, Decorah, Iowa. The image is part of the Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database, a digital archive of Wisconsin objects. For more information, see content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wda,2053

 

Indonesia has a lot of very interesting traditional musical instruments.

1972 vintage, unknown aircraft. Here is the instrument business end.

This morning, we were up early to fly out to Mukwando. Mukwando (or Sierra de Neve) is an old volcano, and there is a tribe of people that live within its caldera.

 

I sat in the seat behind the co-pilot on today's flight. This meant I got to listen in to the goings on up front, and snap a photo of the plane's instruments.

 

If you would like to learn a little more about MAF and Mukwando, check out this video. It was filmed when I visited Angola in 2009: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIn8qinSP1g

 

LOCATION:

Lubango, Huila, Angola, Africa

love the curvy bits

An indigenous American string instrument. Its a Charango from the Andes.

Displayed at the Mining Machinery Exhibition 1913.

 

The telescope was by Carl Zeiss of Jena together with an adjustable centering base of the 'Cooke' Patent.

The horizontal circle was enclosed to exclude dust & moisture thus making this instrument suitable for mining surveying although the design rendered it vulnerable to damage in a mining environment.

A point to bear in mind - the vernier readings had to be made by the light of an oil lamp whilst underground at this time.

This would make a fine collector's item in today's market.

Glimpses from the surgical instrument manufacturing industry of Sialkot, Pakistan

World percussion items close-up.

A look at both ends of Mothra Instrument Platform, which awaits connection to the NEPTUNE Observatory network. Remotely operated vehicle ROPOS visited this platform at a depth of 2276 m in the southern Endeavour segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, 21 May 2014. Resting on this platform is an autonomous bottom pressure recorder (rusted instrument in the lower image), from which accumulated data were downloaded for inclusion in Ocean Networks Canada's data archives.

Credit: ONC/CSSF-ROPOS

Bassoon by Kohlert.....

A Switec X27-168 stepper motor wired up to the Arduino. The pointer was moving when I took the photo, hence the blur. These little geared stepper motors are designed to be used in car instrument panels, as the speedo, rev-counter, fuel gauge and so on. Not a great deal of torque, but quick to respond and high resolution (due to the internal gearing).

 

There's a software library to drive this type of motor, called Gaugette: github.com/clearwater/gaugette

Dashboard for getting a driver's license. Watch the expense gauge!

Instruments for general rural ambulatory practice.

As it's Mother's Day here in the UK, I thought I'd upload another flower - this one showing the centre of a daffodil's trumpet!

 

So again, Happy Mother's Day to all you mums out there!

 

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Instrument cluster 1988 Ford Taurus LX

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum or S21

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

 

This is one of the torture instruments used during the Khmer Rouge. If you see the two horse-shoe like steel at the bottom of this bucket, it is used to cuff the hands of the prisoners. The prisoners are then hung upside down. The bucket is then filled with water.

Device:Nikon D60

Focal Length:18mm

Aperture:F/3.5

Shutter Speed:1/6s

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Dashboard of a 1937 Cord Model 812. According to Wikipedia, "the Model 810/812 are probably the best-known of the company's products. Styled by Gordon M. Buehrig, it featured front-wheel drive and independent front suspension;[4] the front drive enabled the 810 to be so low, runningboards were unnecessary.[4] Powered by a 4,739 cc (289 cu in)[6] Lycoming V8 of the same 125 hp (93 kW) as the L-29,[4] The 810 had a four-speed electrically-selected semi-automatic transmission,[7] among other innovative features.

 

The car caused a sensation at the New York Auto Show in November 1935. Many orders were taken at the show, but the cars were not ready to deliver until February. Despite production delays, Cord promised Christmas delivery, expecting production of 1,000 per month. This proved extremely optimistic; the first production vehicles were not delivered until April 1936.[8] In all, Cord managed to sell only 1,174 of the new 810 in its first model year.[6] The car is well-known for the flat front nose with a louvered grille design. In fact, the front was so similar in look, the car was often called "Coffin Nose".

^ Jump up to: a b c d e Wise, p.436.

Jump up ^ Kimes, Beverly (1996). standard catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. Krause publications. ISBN 0-87341-428-4.

^ Jump up to: a b Wise, p.437.

Jump up ^ Wise, p.437.

Jump up ^ "Cord front-drive car is here", The New York Times. April 12, 1936. p. XX7.

What does it take to create self-aware robotic instruments out of a piece of paper? A workshop was only the start of a new type of avant-garde robotic origami music performances.

 

Oribotics, a combination of origami and robotics, offers fascinating possibilities – from tiny biomedical devices to the giant James Webb Space Telescope. Together with a team of researchers, key researcher and artist Matthew Gardiner has been developing Oribotics since 2010 at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. With oribotic instruments, the team found a playful way to give robotic origami a musical expression: In a workshop, participants were able to create the paper-based instruments themselves. The potential of the avant-garde instruments was showcased during the festivities for the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s 25th anniversary.

 

Credit: Ars Electronica Futurelab: Arno Deutschbauer, Matthew Gardiner, Anna Oelsch

 

Funded through the FWF Austrian Science Fund, PEEK Program

 

More about Oribotic Instruments:

ars.electronica.art/futurelab/en/projects-oribotic-instru...

 

Photo: Denise Hirtenfelder

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