Thank you to Frédéric PFISTER who conducted some research on the BlinkM, LinkM and Sequencer. Below is the full article that was presented at the IASDR Conference last year in the Netherlands. Enjoy!
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http://vimeo.com/33571204 Moduled created by Jason Kim
A MFA Design & Technology student at Parsons, Jason created Moduled a multipurpose lamp for people who are in need of different functions, forms, and colors of lighting. He strongly believes that things that are considered as “basic” such as lighting and “basic shapes” such as circles, squares, and trapezoids can be reinvented with the addition of details and tried to find beauty within seemingly simplistic objects.
Jason was a part of the Fall 2011 ThingM seedkit program. To learn more about his work and project please visit: http://jasonkimdesign.com/
With the great help of ThingM, the Legend Performance Cheer box is the next generation of Cheerleading equipment. Using injection molded ABS and a collapsible design, the Legend cheer box gives you minimal weight and high performance all packaged into a highly portable and easy to carry accessory.
This box has gone through two other versions that focused on collapsibility and safety. But the real innovation takes place with the use of LEDs. The legend box uses an array or LEDs on the face to give you customized graphics and animations. I consulted the help of Tod E. Kurt to help design and implement the the LED board. Running on the Arduino platform, strip LED lighting was reconfigured into a panel to create a board that had code written to display animated gifs. The real challenge was to make the LED panel easy to use, easy to upload new data, and had to run on batteries. We were able to power the arduino and the LEDs on 4 C Batteries, used one button to control the power and animations, and would ideally only need to use a USB cable to upload new data. Other versions of this collapsible box include a detachable panel that would make the LEDs completely independent so you could use the display as a sign and hold hold it up at competitions and games. Adding infrared technology and wireless capabilities could also open the door to communication between boxes and group messages across multiple boxes. The possibilities are endless and we look to continue this project further.
Visit Abraham's website for more work: http://www.abrahampeters.com/
Owners of Makerbot 3d printers have discovered that adding BlinkM MaxMs their 3d printer is easy to do and gives their bot an extra cool feel. This excellent mood lighting system by jetty is one of many examples of how to do this. Other users are using MaxMs to indicate bot build status. All you need is a BlinkM MaxM and some LED strip, both available in the Makerbot store.
Makerbot Industries themselves like BlinkMs too. At their CES 2012 booth, the display stands for their award-winning Makerbot Replicator utilized MaxMs and RGB LED strips too.
(image from gizmag.com)
If you're curious about BlinkM MaxMs, here's some more information.
We had some wonderful ThingM projects created this year - this is a small collection f some of our favorites!
Starting with the upper right hand photo and going Clockwise: BlinkM in "Books with Personality" created by Jisu Choi + Matt Kizu from Art Center; Mike Rivamonte's Rocet Sculpures; "Cloud" Steven Madsen, Kevin Yien, Chris Niswander, Jordan Stoewsand-Kryscio, Mallory Baran and Michael Theodore; “Current: Technology+Contemporary Claycraft” by: Virginia Pfau MFA Ceramics Candidate, School for American Craft, Rochester Institute of Technology; "And, Per Se" by artist Shanon Ebner.
A little while back we introduced Mike's wonderful sculpture "Scout", which has been recently published in Spectrum 18: Best of Fantastic Art which will hit stores in December. His current work has integrated our ThingM FreeMs to assist in lighting his rockets. Each piece is hand constructed and painted and lit with FreeMs and a 9V wall wart. This is a limited production and and are priced at $1,500 each. This sounds like a wonderful and unique holiday gift!
To view more of Mike's work and to contact him regarding any questions please visit his website: www.mrivamonte.com/
Alex Ladner built a Deadmau5 costume head for his Halloween costume, putting a MinM into each eye and programmed them using the LinkM. Using the pre-made script that fades from color to color with a final result was both bright and awesome. He won multiple costume contests and looks forward to using more MinMs for next years costume!
Shannon Ebner’s work centers on a do-it-yourself alphabet of handmade letters and signs temporarily placed—and strategically displaced— in public contexts. The artist sets language in the service of photography, her cryptic messages captured and fixed in black-and-white photographs. Populating actual yet uncertain landscapes or mise-en-scènes including California real estate sites, the La Brea Tar Pits, and the Washington Monument, these ephemeral signs spell out such darkly ambiguous phrases as “Landscape Incarceration,” “The Doom,” and “The Day—Sob—Dies.”
Ebner recently created a piece tittle "And, Per Se" for the Venice Biennale and included her Light Box pieces in her current UCLA Hammer show. We're happy to say she was able to use ThingM MaxMs for the lighting component of her work!
To see the video of her installation on "AND, Per Se" please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCJHOg-XlrQ
To read Ebner's UCLA Hammer interview please visit: http://hammer.ucla.edu/newsblogs/?cat=95
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