Concerned about Apple’s deletion of the 3.5mm headphone jack from the iPhone 7? Now you can use ancient pneumatic headphones instead of proprietary Lightning or Bluetooth devices. The phone’s own internal speaker delivers sound to the ears through hollow tubes.
Hello emoticon fans! Just popping in with a recent media art project. I hope you’re all well \(‘w’)/
Concerned about Apple’s deletion of the 3.5mm headphone jack from the iPhone 7? Now you can use ancient pneumatic headphones instead of proprietary Lightning or Bluetooth devices. The phone’s own internal speaker delivers sound to the ears through hollow tubes.
Together worked as a team to create the most impressive stage design for rock stars. The images above shows the stage design for Pink Floyd’s The wall , the scene of “The Teacher” in 1980-1981.
Fisher and Park met at the Architectural Association in 70’s time of radical experimentation, their influences were Avant-garde and Situationist-style installations but their temporary structures always catched a dramatic effect with Inflatables, the most effective were made with cheap materials.
Mark Fisher, architect died in 2013 and Jonathan Park mechanical engineer is working on new projects.
images from The Architects’ journal: Volume 196, Issues 14-21 – 1992
Worth read:
The pros and cons of a set design, An interview with Mark Fisher by Alastair McLean+
Inflatable Puppet from “The Wall” – Mark Fisher & Jonathan Park (British) by ciberneticzoo +
Muere Mark Fisher, diseñador de los escenarios de las mayores bandas de rock +
more stage design by Fisher enterprise Stufish : +
There’s a reason why you don’t see rotary motors or joints in nature: at anything above the molecular scale, too much stuff has to be permanently attached to too much other stuff for any of it to be freely rotating in the way a mechanical wheel or axle is. The more bioinspiration you want to work into a robot, the more of an issue this becomes, which is why it’s particularly impressive that researchers at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., have managed to put four silicone-based wheels with air-powered motors inside of them on a robot that’s as soft as a Crocs shoe.
Most squishy robots with pneumatic muscles exert force on the environment through bending: a pneumatic chamber that’s constrained on one side will curve when inflated, which generates enough motion that robots can walk around on legsandpick things upwith grippers. Directional motion like this is very common in nature: most of your muscles work this way, exerting force one way over a finite distance, in cooperative opposition to another muscle that exerts force the other way. You also have muscles that work together in peristalsis, in which synchronized contractions and relaxations generates a propagating wave. This is how you swallow food, and also how worms and snails move.
ProfessorAaron Mazzeo’s group at Rutgers has cleverly adapted this peristaltic motion into a rotary actuator: a motor that can turn continuously, powered only by pneumatic actuators inflating and deflating themselves in sequence. The video is 5 minutes long, but worth watching to understand how this works.
