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Title: Sisyphus V: A Robot Making a Zen Garden Post by: Mark David on May 10, 2008, 02:42:00 AM Sisyphus V: A Robot Making a Zen Garden
This isn't a sandbox with a marble in it. Sysyphus V, a kinetic sculpture by Bruce Shapiro looks like a Zen Garden. But instead of a buddhist monk carefully raking gravel, it's an autonomous steel sphere carefully crawling over and over, making polar geometric shapes that can best be described as iterative lilies or stars. A magnet on an arm on a two axis plotter sites underneath the half-ton set up, and Sisyphus is making its first appearance here, at Maker Faire 2008. (http://www.stopnseeus.com/files/images/tech_images/sisyphus-v-a-001.jpg) (http://www.stopnseeus.com/files/images/tech_images/sisyphus-v-a-002.jpg) (http://www.stopnseeus.com/files/images/tech_images/sisyphus-v-a-003.jpg) (http://www.stopnseeus.com/files/images/tech_images/sisyphus-v-a-004.jpg) (http://www.stopnseeus.com/files/images/tech_images/sisyphus-v-a-005.jpg) (http://www.stopnseeus.com/files/images/tech_images/sisyphus-v-a-006.jpg) http://www.youtube.com/v/J82WBBAilEk Video of Bruce Shapiro's kinetic sculpture Sisyphus V displayed at Maker Faire 2008 in San Mateo, California, May 3, 2008. Music is Celestial Soda Pop by Ray Lynch |