Apesnake Photobooth is face and mouth detection photobooth built in openFrameworks using Kyle McDonald’s FaceOSC. A webcam detects a single face, tracks it’s position, and calculates the width and height of it’s mouth. When the eyes and mouth match our desired expression (in this case, the Manwolf face), the software triggers a Canon 1000D to take a photo and play an ape shriek. Photos are saved with a high resolution locally and automatically uploaded to Apesnake Manwolf’s Facebook Photos Page.

More info at apesnake.cwandt.com

24 bit RGB colour palette time corrupt reconstruction is part of a series of software pieces that model the relationship between time and computer processes.

A 24 bit RGB palette colour test chart is sampled (bottom), broken apart into its 24 bit binary representation (middle), and then re-sampled to reconstruct the 24 bit RGB palette colour test chart (top).

Each discrete step in this process, including the standalone bit, is connected to a timing mechanism. This relationship is inextricable. Timing orients raw data within a context that gives it meaning.

By clicking on the tiny clocks, you can stop and start the timing mechanisms, corrupting each step in this process, corrupting the resulting reconstruction of the colour test chart.

This exploded model of a simple computer process demonstrates the inextricable relationship between time and computer architecture.

LAUNCH 24 bit RGB CPTCR

Google Earth Clock is a web-based digital clock assembled from views of Earth from above that resemble numbers. Each view zooms in and out, weaving the unfamiliar to the familiar. Every half minute, the views jump to a new location revealing a digit that may be a building or terrain in a foreign place, but as we zoom out, we begin to associate it with familiar landscapes, discernible shapes of countries, and the distinct view of our planet. [Launch Google Earth Clock]

Built at FABRICA with support from tamasha.

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We love Hi-Tec-C pens. If you’ve ever written with one, you know what we’re talking about. If you haven’t heard of these pens, check out jetpen’s blurb. http://bit.ly/hitecc Pen Type-A is a stainless steel replacement for the Hi-Tec-C’s cheap plastic housing. To us, the Hi-Tec-C cartridges deserve a more durable home.

The design is minimal, the construction is super solid, and indestructible to protect and cherish these coveted ink cartridges. It has a dime screw on one end to allow for easy ink cartridge replacement. Its shaft is a solid smooth surface with no branding, no fancy grip or grooves, and just the right thickness and weight so it feels comfortable in your hand. The entire piece is milled and turned from a block of 304 stainless steel. The raw steel finish today is how it’ll look 50 years from now. This thing will last forever.

The pen slides slowly into its sleeve, which doubles as a ruler. The notches on the ruler are in cm and inches. An internal lip at the bottom of the sleeve protects the tip from getting shoved in any further than it should. The tiny amount of space between the sleeve and the pen creates an effect like a pneumatic cylinder, so the pen slides in slow and smooth.

Specifications:

Pen Type-A includes a 0.3 Black Hi-Tec-C Cartridge

Pen Weight (including ink cartridge): 50 grams (1.75 oz)
Pen Diameter: 9.72mm
Pen Length: 124.75mm
Sleeve Weight: 74 grams (2.6 oz)
Sleeve Length: 120mm
Sleeve Width: 12mm

Compatible Ink Cartridges: Pilot Hi-Tec-C and G-Tec-C Cartridges (0.25, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5mm widths in many colors!)

Retail Price: $99

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Thermochromic Clock is a 4-digit 7-segment timepiece. Each segment in the display is made with a length of nichrome wire and then covered by a thick layer of black thermochromic paint. Time is displayed by applying voltage to the nichrome wire. As the wire sustains an electric current, it heats up the surrounding thermochromic paint, causing it to become transparent.

Special thanks to Sam Galison!

1Bit 1Hz CPU is a diagrammatic wall sculpture of a very simple, slow computer. By flicking a regular light switch, a single bit is processed at rate of one cycle per second to turn on and off a light.

dimensions: 4×4′ wall installation
materials: light switch, T12 fluorescent tube light, acrylic, electronics, 1Hz AC sync motor

Crowsflight is a GPS compass that simply points. No instructions, no maps to orient, no lines to follow, just an arrow that points at the destination.

Functions
-bookmark your current position
-search for a destination by address or placename
-displays the distance in metric or imperial units
-shows progress (how much closer you are to your destination since you started)
-opens crowsflight:// url schemes (e.g. crowsflight://maps.google.com/maps?hnear=Budapest,+Hungary&gl=us&ll=47.547799,19.03656)
-doubles as a regular compass (red arrow)
-input latitude and longitude manually (e.g. open search, type in 40.692099,-73.944325)
-works offline (search is the only function that requires an internet connection)

By combining location data (GPS) with the compass, Crowsflight provides mapless navigation in an intuitive, glance-at-it kind of way.

Check out Crowsflight in the app store for more screenshots.

Mega Toot is an analog amplifier accessory for the 1st generation iPad.
It fits snuggly onto the corner and pipes the speaker output through the horn to amplify the sound.
It works! No batteries involved. Perfect for in-bed movie watching.
The Strong & Flexible material is super strong and can be handled pretty roughly.
Get Mega Toot on Shapeways! http://shpws.me/1B8l

An indestructible single pushbutton

AIGA asked us to design and build a piece to light up their runway for their Bright Lights awards ceremony. We thought it was a perfect opportunity challenge ourselves to build a wearable battery powered fluorescent light. So this is what we came up with.

Face Normal is a head mounted fluorescent light fixture. Two T-12 fluorescent lights float in front of our faces like an extrusion of our eyes.

3D printed parts grip onto the T-12 fluorescent lights. Four aluminum tubes extend from the lights and are secured to our custom leather headgear. In the back, we have 2 ballasts, 2 hefty battery-inverter units that convert DC to AC power, and a bag of metal BBs to counterbalance the weight of the lights.

Special thanks to Seth, Celina, Fischer-Borden, Ken, Su, Amy, Allie and all the hard workers at CSA!

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