Rockwell Group was invited to customize a VIPP waste bin auctioned off to benefit DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Foundation Fighting Aids . The bin was wrapped with white LED strips that switch on when the foot pedal is depressed.

Asked to create a “Nest: Creative Construction for any Living Creature” for the 2009 Design Trust Annual Benefit we decided to create a nest of bright ideas. Cradled within a nest of LED lights, the ecosphere is illuminated and controlled by sensors that read the intensity of your brain waves. It is a delicate interplay between life and light. To bring this to fruition we hacked a Mindflex for its EEG brainwave technology. Thanks to Dave Vondle for all his help on this project.

We used openFrameworks, arduino, and DMX to extend our existing Luminodes to a full room lighting control device. We are using this as a way to control a variety of architectural lighting devices seamlessly.

We’ve been experimenting with different vector field-based programs. With this one, we worked out some techniques to map live video across the field, manipulating the image with the field.

We took a little time to have fun with a demo for an upcoming project. Interactive high fives + fist pounds are the future!

Demoing a few things we are working on… at the same time.

An early prototype of a large scale multitouch interface + program.

Using crystallography as craft we are able to see how micro scale geometry creates macro scale material properties firsthand. In this example, RGB LEDs act as the seed geometry for the crystals allowing the crystals to grow around the components and batteries. Ongoing work in this series is looking at crystal linkages, durability, masking and alternate crystal geometries and growth methodologies.

We worked on this piece for a charity auction which benefited the International Children’s Heart Foundation and Ability Aids International. We made the pillow light up when it was hugged.

We have been working on a variety of algorithmic kaleidoscope generators using live video. Stay tuned for a big announcement using this technology. This install allowed one to place objects onto a platform which were then incorporated into the kaleidoscope image.

This is from a warehouse test we did for our Venice Biennale project. We think it might be fun to use this in a dance related piece.

We are working on a very exciting project in London. Here is one of the prototypes from our project. It lets people navigate the contents of a store using an umbrella as the interface.