Month: March 2011

Kinect & Arduino-Controlled Delta Robot

This is a project in development for the module “Digital Ecologies”, at the Bartlett’s AAC Msc. A Delta-Robot is controlled by a Kinect through Processing and Arduino. The movements of the performer control directly the position of the robot’s effector, and the rotation and opening of the gripper. Once the plattform is properly calibrated (still […]

DIY Ring Flash from Optical Fiber

DIY Ring Flash from Optical Fiber

Ring flashes are often used for macro and glamour portrait photography, but that kind of professional equipment can be quite expensive. Wolf made his own using a bundle of fiber optic strands originating at his camera’s flash and terminating at an acrylic ring he cut himself. The benefit of this method is that all of […]