Created by Sonice Development (Julian Adenauer and Michael Haas), Rising Colorspace is a new installation by the duo for “Metropol Park“ at Köllnischer Park 6-7 in Berlin. It is the third ‘systemic robot‘ installation of their colorspace series. Installation is comprised of a robot, drawing it’s rising movements as bow-like lines onto a shiny metallic wall. All turns and falling movements are left out. Each line grows like a bending curve and modulates the colorspace after a daily colour-protocol creating an evolving system that continuously overwriting itself.
The painting emerges from a behaviour (a set of coded rules) the team have designed specifically for the installation. Two radial fans generate a vacuum on the bottom side of the machine. A sealing lip made from textile that is mounted loosely and holds the vacuum. Using this kind of loosely mounted fabric instead of e.g. rubber is a key element for this to work because it produces little friction and adapts very well to the underground. This technique is patented by a friend of the team, Achim Meyer, whom they collaborated with to realise the machine.
The base plate of the machine is made from CNC cut foam board (KAPA). The case, sensor-holders etc. are laser sintered and painted. The sealing lip is a silicon coated polyadmide textile in the current version and the wheels are hand-cast with silicon. They used markers from a graffiti shop but the colours are mixed and composed by the team. The logic board of the device is custom but based on Arduino. They used a servo motor next to the marker to control if the machine is drawing or not. Also, two Sharp distance sensors detect the borders of the wall and an accelerometer to know the orientation of the machine.
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