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A work in progress:
One year in temperature materialised in acrylic.
The height is the temperature values.
Each row is one week long, and with 52 rows, there's one year in temperature, in Helsinki, Finland.
The year covered is the one between may 2009 -> may 2010 . The winter was quite cold, to say the least.
This was just a test. Am hoping to do a bit of a skinned surface in the end, and use a more natural material, like wood.
... just need to get that coordinate points count down. Seems the CNC toolpath machinery doesn't like it too much.
__ Thanks to the Aalto University Media Factory, for providing resources to do this and other physical information visualisation research.
The sun/shade work is a representation of the sunlight in Helsinki over a year, measured by a solar radiation sensor and re-represented though code and a lasercutter into Finnish wood. The work investigates our sense of nature, and the meaning and interplay between data, form and physicality.
( Many thanks to the Aalto University Media Factory for sponsoring this project, and to the Aalto University / ARTS / Wood workshop for helping me realise the project ).
A year in solar radiation
On the work's vertical axis, columns of dots recount the sun's activity from the beginning of the day ( i.e 00:00 ) at top, to the day's end (ie. 23:59 ) at the bottom. The columns, from left to right, show every other day from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. The size of the circles indicates the quantity of sunlight. A 2007 Helsinki's light is retold. Intensely light in summer - in the middle - with occasional rain and clouds darkening the day, and intensely dark in winter - surrounding the light summer period.
Resolution: 182 columns (every other day in the year ) by 144 rows ( one measurement every 10 minutes in the day )
Cutting: with light naturally, like this: vimeo.com/24000033
A work in progress:
One year in temperature materialised in acrylic.
The height is the temperature values.
Each row is one week long, and with 52 rows, there's one year in temperature, in Helsinki, Finland.
The year covered is the one between may 2009 -> may 2010 . The winter was quite cold, to say the least.
This was just a test. Am hoping to do a bit of a skinned surface in the end, and use a more natural material, like wood.
... just need to get that coordinate points count down. Seems the CNC toolpath machinery doesn't like it too much.
__ Thanks to the Aalto University Media Factory, for providing resources to do this and other physical information visualisation research.
import processing.pdf.*;
PImage bild;
color c;
int n=200*200;
int counter=0;
boolean flex=true;
float x,y,w;
float[] h=new float[n];
void setup(){
size(800,800);
smooth();
bild=loadImage("bild.jpg");
image(bild,0,0);
for(int i=0;i<200;i++){
for(int j=0;j<200;j++){
c=get(i,j);
h[counter]=brightness(c);
counter++;
}
}
beginRecord(PDF,hour()+"_"+minute()+"_"+second()+".pdf");
render();
endRecord();
}
void render(){
counter=0;
for(int i=0;i<200;i++){
for(int j=0;j0.1){
line(-w,-w,w,w);
}
popMatrix();
counter++;
}
}
}
void draw(){
}
Images document training sessions organized by Live Architecture Network August 2009 at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya.
The Innovation Lab has a new laser cutter/etcher. The unit requires water circulation and air pressure.
These dark strips of metal support sheets of metal in a laser cutter. They were once uniform strips but have become grossly deformed by repeated passes of the laser and will eventually have to be replaced. They sit in a bath of water with a green additive to prevent rust.
A work in progress:
One year in temperature materialised in acrylic.
The height is the temperature values.
Each row is one week long, and with 52 rows, there's one year in temperature, in Helsinki, Finland.
The year covered is the one between may 2009 -> may 2010 . The winter was quite cold, to say the least.
This was just a test. Am hoping to do a bit of a skinned surface in the end, and use a more natural material, like wood.
... just need to get that coordinate points count down. Seems the CNC toolpath machinery doesn't like it too much.
__ Thanks to the Aalto University Media Factory, for providing resources to do this and other physical information visualisation research.
Sketch model of a proposed structure derived from a magic ball origami fold, a water bomb variant I think. We are breaking the paper surface down into separate components so that we can figure out how to build it at a large scale with stability. We are also planning an adjustment feature.
My mom is a Reiki master, doula, hospice nurse, and in general healer. She brought over a bag of hand picked river rocks she wanted to transform into simple tools to help one focus. While mom and I worked through sketches, Kim followed on the computer. After a few stones worth of experimentation we had a nice laser cut groove that completed her vision.
More about Wende: www.wendelights.com
More about Fade to Future: www.fadetofuture.com
a sketch for Stencilano, a stencil font based off of Zapfino for laser cutting lettering. Check out this Instructable for an example: www.instructables.com/id/Laser_cut_Letter_Gift_wrap/
The set shows a team building activity evening at the MUSE FabLab. The general activities have been focused on Digital Fabrication and personalization of an object designed by groups of people. The object has been first designed digitally and then fabricated using the laser cutter. As a third step, each group has the build up the physical object, basically for their office desk.
The test file in Moshi format that I generated at home on the Linux machine, turned into actual, physical form by the laser cutter at Bristol Hackspace.
Thanks to Dave Stewart for taking the file in and operating the laser cutter.
Photos from our craft room. This is a dump of photos from my phone. Many may be duplicates or similar angles.
Come make your own gadget, robot or wearable art at Tam Makers!
On Wednesday evenings, we host ‘You Can Make It’ workshops for adults and teens in our makerspace at Tam High School. During these open sessions, participants build new projects, with guidance from our staff and other community members.
Many of them are experienced makers, who are happy to share what they know. Here are some of the cool maker projects they are working on this month: a graceful robot spider, an eagle god with creepy eyes, an Arduino-powered garage opener, a Wifi server on a chip, and many laser cut picture frames.
If you are interested in creating your own maker project with the help of others, join us this fall, on Wednesday evenings from 6 to 9pm in the woodshop at Tam High School in Mill Valley. Learn more about You Can Make It:
www.tammakers.org/you-can-make-it/
One of the great benefits of this open shop program is that you get a lot more than just access to tools: you join a community of makers who like to make things together and help each other.
View more photos of You Can Make It:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157670867561896
View more photos of Tam Makers:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157660433218276
Learn more about Tam Makers:
The set shows a team building activity evening at the MUSE FabLab. The general activities have been focused on Digital Fabrication and personalization of an object designed by groups of people. The object has been first designed digitally and then fabricated using the laser cutter. As a third step, each group has the build up the physical object, basically for their office desk.