PiCasso Design Challenge - Kinetic Art Mobile - Post 4 - Crash of the Death Star

RE: PiCasso Design Challenge - Kinetic Art Mobile - Post 4 - Crash of the Death Star

balearicdynamics — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 08:09:16 GMT

Great reminiscence of Calder! I loved this artist that I had the luck to know personally during the 80s

Curious to see the final result.

Enrico

RE: PiCasso Design Challenge - Kinetic Art Mobile - Post 4 - Crash of the Death Star

three-phase — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 21:21:04 GMT

Interesting update. Have you played around with the shape of the holes of the orb at all, to see if it varies the air flow and the loading on the fan motors?

Kind regards.

RE: PiCasso Design Challenge - Kinetic Art Mobile - Post 4 - Crash of the Death Star

DAB — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 18:12:17 GMT

Good build.

DAB

RE: PiCasso Design Challenge - Kinetic Art Mobile - Post 4 - Crash of the Death Star

fmilburn — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 23:49:53 GMT

It really looks good Gene,

It sounds like you got most of the data out of the prototype although it would have been nice to get some video of the crashing Death Star :-). I plan to buy an inexpensive reamer to clean up holes in my 3D parts although I am also fortunate enough to have a complete set of letter sized drills. What thickness are you printing the orb?

Frank

RE: PiCasso Design Challenge - Kinetic Art Mobile - Post 4 - Crash of the Death Star

ralphjy — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 21:33:36 GMT

I like the new orb design improvements. I didn’t know that you were putting sensors on the orbs. Do they communicate via Bluetooth to the RPi? What are you using to implement the communication?