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It’s that time of semester again.In addition to Development Studio in Digital Tectonics, I will be taking Parametric Design II, Scripting II and Architectural Theory, with Neil Leach.  It need not be said that I’m quite excited about studying theory with Neal Leach.  if you aren’t familiar with his writing (meaning you have been hiding under an architectural rock for the past 10 years) you can see a list of his work here at amazon.Obviously i’ll keep you all posted as to how the semester pans out. 

During the easter break i headed to Madrid for four days with gogo, and we had a blast. A selection of the photos are below, but you can see the entire set here.

Georgia and I completed our parametric house presentation as a part of our Research Studio_ Digital Tectonics class. We were very happy with the final results, receiving great comments form the jury.

download the presentation here

In the short time that I had, my essay looked at self organisation and urbanism. It is an area that I would potentially like to explore further in much more detail.

you can download the file here.

Andrea and I presented our project for the rhino scripting class on saturday. We were very happy with the results, which gave us a script that would create a bench from 4 curves. The script would automatically generate the ribbing and intersection pieces, in addition to laying the components out flat, ready for lasercutting.

you can see a video of the script in action here
you can download the script and source file here
you can downlaod the PDF presentation here

The script for the bench is ready to go, all that is left is the intersection subtractions and some fine tuning on the unrolling (hopefully).

you can download the source files here.

For the re-launch of Microsoft’s Windows Live platform, Firstborn was approached by Emmy Award Winning studio Digital Kitchen and Wexley School for Girls to create a generative art exhibition to be projected onto a seven-story sphere located at New York’s South Street Seaport.Microsoft teamed up with Operation Smile and as part of the event there were numerous kiosks at the Seaport for visitors to get their smile captured and have it projected on the sphere. Using Processing, Firstborn was able to create particle generated art, which was projected on the sphere.

The images that were used in the installation were fed live from photobooths around the outside of the area. Patrons would see their own photographs used in the overall exhibition.

You can see a fantastic case-study on Firstborn’s website here.

You can view videos of my final box in action as a singular entity and in an array with these links from youTube
singular | multi

Even with the light sensor sensitivity set to 950, the box was collecting too much light and creating sound. You can view the script below:

/* LOOP */
if(touchSensor==HIGH){
rotation = !rotation;
delay(20);
}
if ((millis()-lastBlink)>100) {
lastBlink = millis();
lampState = !lampState;
digitalWrite(lampPin,lampState);
}
if(soundSensor==HIGH){
if (rotation) {
rotateClockwise(25);
} else {
rotateAntiClockwise(25);
}
}

break;
}

A new silicon chip developed in Melbourne is predicted to revolutionise the way household gadgets like televisions, phones and DVD players talk to each other.

The tiny five-millimetre-a-side chip can transmit data through a wireless connection at a breakthrough five gigabits per second over distances of up to 10 metres. An entire high-definition movie from a video shop kiosk could be transmitted to a mobile phone in a few seconds, and the phone could then upload the movie to a home computer or screen at the same speed.

read the complete article here

you can download the full script and model file here