ICU2 is going to Pavilhão do Conhecimento in February and we are finishing the hardware and software. Some servos needed to be swapped and I needed to print a suport for a standard servo, this video shows a bit of the printing process and the printed thing assembled. There will me more updates very soon.
ICU has been sleeping for a while but was awaken suddenly because I was invited to an exhibition at Flausina, a new born association in Lisbon. Complexity is always a welcome thing around here and the bot was presented with two more servo motors and all the software has been re-written. And because I needed [...]
CCB, Museu Colecção Berardo, Trienal de Arquitectura, Prémios Secil – Interactive SlideShow – 2010 from artica on Vimeo. Interactive Slideshow created to showcase Secil Prizes. You can see it live @ CCB, Museu Colecção Berardo, Exposição Trienal de Arquitectura.
CCDR-LVT FIL 2010 Interactive LED Wall from artica on Vimeo. Artica first work on HCI with a motion detection application. Work done in collaboration with Leonel Moura, IdMind and André Sier.
Inner’s Lair started with a crazy idea of having an immersive interactive installation that could gather many artistic and computational topics that we at Artica have been disccussing in the last months. So, mostly we wanted to tryout our new conceptual implementation of cool topics as immersive sound, computer vision, interactive robotics, and organic behaviors. [...]
ICU is a sub-project of the SWARS (see what a robot sees) project. This time I not just wanted to see what a robot sees, but I also wanted to give the robot the ability to understand that there is a person in the room, and stare at the person. To detect faces I used [...]
