Sunday, August 5, 2007

_paltkoma

Urban furniture that combines in a continuous surface leisure activities with an intelligent shading system. An arduino board takes different values from light sensors depending on the sun movement and give the proper information to a servo motor for rotating the blinds.

_arti waves


Field of LED's that indicate the movement of the waves. The tidal energy is converted to electromagnetic through dynamos and reflected to light.

_fanny bubble wall


Wind density indicator consisting of perforated fans producing bubbles!

_wind flutes

Metal and plastic pipes interacting with the wind direction producing sound.

_balloon


Interactive shading system made of plastic black bags filled with air. The sun radiation heats the air changing the height of the mobile shader.

_singing flowers

Metal stripes in a different forms producing sound depending on the wind direction.

_light filter cans



Interactive skin made from two layers of cans that controls the the sun penetration.

_a wave makes a wheel

Communicative machine that the movement of the waves rotate a wheel.

_1+2=3?

Shading structure with variable porosity.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Work in Progress

The construction phase for final prototypes has already started. Recycled materials like cans, metal stripes, pipes, pallets, old printers, shampoo bottles etc. are used as part of the prototypes. Mechanic and low-tech electronic tools are implemented with open source platform as Arduino.

Hard working...


Testing of Arduino board with servo motor.




Quiz: How many girls can fit in the Paltkoma prototype? (boys only can watch!)


After the hard work, dinner for everybody!