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Brain toys
Right now I’m working with the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University to develop electronic toys, designed for testing cognitive development in children. The toys were designed by Rachel Gottlieb and Mary Davidson; I’m doing the electronics. Check out videos of a couple halfway-done-ones after the jump.
Bloog: The RSS Mod-Synth

Here is the finished project of what I wrote about here - a machine that scrambles the words and sentences of real-time blog posts, based on the look of a 1960’s Moog synthesizer.Robot Wheatfield, Version 2.0 (with RSS)
…
Andrew: hey:
Ashley: ?
Andrew: wait for it
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check out this:
(one of my finals that i presented yesterday)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wa8SDiRB2w8
I made a movie about it last night
The robot wheatfield frolic, […]Walking through the Robot Wheatfield

An interactive installation, where animated lights streaming from the ceiling track the movement of a body as they walk through a field of steel wheat.Jacuzzi Pants
Many enjoy the comfort and relaxation that comes with spending time in hot tubs, saunas, and swimming pools - however, in our increasingly nomadic and body-oriented technological world, it becomes inconvenient to have these limited to their installed locations. Is there a way to bring the experience of a jacuzzi with you? Can this fixture become portable, like so many other technologies?
Interactive Light Panels

A magic wall hanging - a grid of photoresistors and small circuit boards on the lower panel, and a grid of bulbs on the upper. When a shadow falls over the lower panel, the shape of that shadow is reproduced in light on the upper panel.

