Back in February, I saw this call for single button, interactive objects to be displayed at an exhibition called “one button objects,” in San Francisco, as part of the Gamma4 one button game event during the 2010 Game Developers Conference.
This presented a perfect opportunity to experiment with interactivity and sensor input for my Electric Window [...]
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One Button Objects
Chinatown Remixed 2010
Intro
Chinatown Remixed runs from May 8 to June 8, 2010, in Ottawa’s Chinatown district. This is the second year for the annual “art walking tour,” where local businesses, restaurants, and shops open their doors to collaborate with artists, providing art “exhibtions in unusual places.”
Last year, Deb and I made a “Chinatown Remixed” sign from electroluminescent [...]
Boingboing
Just a quick note to say what a pleasant surprise it was to find out that last week, my lighting art was featured on blog of all things cool, geeky, and techy, Boingboing
You can visit the post here.
Printed circuit board (PCB) etching
Scope
This post assumes some knowledge of PCB etching methods and is an account of my experience with the toner transfer method. If this is new to you, you may have to get Googling on a few of things mentioned here. That said, I’ve linked to the sites I found most useful during the process.
Intro
Up until [...]
Tweet all about it: Ottawa’s Chinatown goes global
TWITTER ACTIVATED LIGHT BOXES ON DISPLAY AT ORIENTAL CHARM GIFT SHOP [ 653 SOMERSET ST. W., OTTAWA ] FROM MAY 8 – JUNE 8 2010
Ottawa (Ontario) – You won’t want to miss it! Ottawa’s second annual Chinatown Remixed event is happening Saturday, May 8, from 2-5 p.m.
Walk the streets of Somerset West as you take [...]
Etsy follow-up and Makers Market
It seems the blog love for my Etsy shop back in February and March helped out as I’m happy to report that I’ve sold some Electric Window pieces via Etsy: notably to customers in California and Switzerland. This represents international attention for my work that I may not have attained otherwise.
I’ve since been accecpted by [...]
Blog love
It’s probably obvious from the links in the right hand column, but last month I set up an Etsy shop for my smaller light works.
Etsy’s a site dedicated to all things crafty and handmade. On first glance, my electronic works seem out of place amongst all the beads, jewelery, knitting, and paintings. However, since my [...]
Electric Window 4.xx
In addition to the advancements made to the Electric Window 3.xx series back in December, I also started a new light box series, Electric Window 4.xx:
This series revolves around a matrix of 16 LEDs with individually controlled brightness and fading, making it an organic/analog sibling to the 3.xx series which uses LED screens with a [...]
Light cube prototype
Continuing to turn inspiration into reality, Deb and I unpacked our new table saw, installed the acrylic-capable blade, and got to work cutting and gluing. The result is a prototype for a new series of light boxes/cubes:
Electric Window 3.03
With the inspiration of using acrylic as an artistic/structural medium mixed with the notion of baring it all in terms of circuit board exposure, as outlined in this previous post, I set about to realize the next entry in the Electric Window 3.xx series with a new perspective:
[ Build details and more photos after the [...]