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Flux - Kinetic Art Installation

Metallic prisms are rotated in coordinated patterns to create rolling waves of refracted light.

nicholas-stedmanNicholas Stedman
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KINETIC art steppers installation arduino Robotics

This project was created on 09/23/2022 and last updated 3 years ago.

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We designed and built a 40 foot kinetic installation for Shopify's Offices in Toronto, with Taylor Group. 20 planks each have 2 stepper motors with attached "prisms" that are fabricated from laminated foam. The motors are run by very quiet TMC2160 drivers, with AS5600 magnetic encoders attached for closed-loop positioning. These are controlled by a regular old Arduinos. The 20 arduinos are networked over USB to a Raspberry Pi running a node.js program for sequencing the movements into patterns. USB allowed us to update all the arduinos in a few minutes using a script. We also created a 3D simulation in three.js to allow us to develop patterns without the physical rig.

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kelvinA wrote 10/08/2022 at 19:44 • point

Very fresh and future-office space look.

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peter jansen wrote 09/24/2022 at 22:49 • point

Quite lovely! Thanks for sharing!

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Nicholas Stedman wrote 09/27/2022 at 22:06 • point

Thanks. I love your tricoder!

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peter jansen wrote 09/29/2022 at 00:16 • point

Thanks! Hopefully when my little one is a little older, and tenure is behind me, then I'll have a little more time to work on my open source projects again :) 

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