Posted May 18, 2012 at 10:58pm
Cutting 20’ long steel tube.
Not sure what to say here. Sure theres an explanation but I like the photo better as an image than a story. The image is nice, but too static. See video above to hear the beast.
Posted May 18, 2012 at 10:56pm
A quick snapshot during lunch.
Saturday may 12: just finished the cat construction and tweaking. We were treated to a great lunch underneath our work. Unfortunately this is the only pic i took with my phone. There are more to come later today of the final day of work and from the opening. (taken with my camera)
Posted May 16, 2012 at 5:42pm
Cats at the little bear.
The result of two days of install. We have since been finishing this up and intend to be done tweaking later today. A 5 am start this morning will help us get a feel for the lighting adjustments that need to be made since we cannot work at night. (i will be there in only four hours)
We are having the opening for this project monday may 14 from 5-7pm.
Little bear: 1855 industrial st. LA 90021
Posted May 12, 2012 at 1:06am
“Dying at Woodbury”
I have been helping David Freeland teach a ‘visual studies’ class at Woodbury this (past) semester. That turned into a large permanent catenary installation in a restaurant in LA (little bear). I wish i could take credit for these colors but the students were the ones. They dyed 5000 feet of rope into 6 different colors.
We modeled everything using the kangaroo component in grasshopper to simulate the complex geometries of ropes hanging off of other ropes. As you will see later it worked out well.
Posted May 12, 2012 at 1:00am
Posted April 2, 2012 at 2:22pm in robotics architecture robot robots gear head stepper motor real time real-time plastic extruder cnc plastic extruder
ron made these-
a small selection of things that i have made using ron; just in case you were wondering what they look like.
Posted September 20, 2011 at 4:47pm in ron plastic extruder real-time control sci-arc plastic robot thesis
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Real-time robot control
This was the mockup of what i showed for my final thesis review - robot demo. Try to use your imagination people. they do not all have to be doing the same thing, and i can control much more than start/stop. remember, when networked controlling 30 robots is as easy as controlling 1…!
Posted September 20, 2011 at 9:57am
Thesis video, sci-arc
the final video presentation for my thesis. Masters of Architecture Sci-arc 2011. I did a final demo that was the i-pod remote controlling 4 robots. since i can control 30 as easily as i can one its not a technical challenge but it looks cool. note:the audio is silent because i was presenting over the video. will try to correct this. thats a lot of awkward silence. See the high def version on vimeo
Posted September 15, 2011 at 2:30am in sci-arc robots plastic extruder extruder ron Grasshopper processing real time control
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Here is my pin up for thesis (part of it) Many people have been complimenting me already. It just looked so damn good when I put it up that I have not been happy with all the other crap that was supposed to go on the wall as well. I could have more models and shelves even. I think that I don’t have enough space because there is no way to add to this wall without making it look worse. That said, there is still a tremendous amount of information that is important to communicate. Robots! I feel pretty good about Sunday. 2:45 pm in the robot house at sci arc. Seating is limited.
Posted September 9, 2011 at 8:40pm
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RON TWO
Short video showing the assembly of Ron Two. check it out on vimeo (http://vimeo.com/28584742) for higher quality. note:the audio is in progress…
Posted September 4, 2011 at 3:18pm
(near) real time robot control through grasshopper and processing. moving the sliders is changing parameters in grasshopper, the resulting robot positions are sent to processing via gHowl then sent on to the robot. most of the lag is inside grasshopper and not the communications or the robot. this is just a fraction of what i can do. check out the video on vimeo for higher quality (http://vimeo.com/27668426) assistance on the GH robot rig from Andrew Atwood (http://atwood-a.com/)
Posted August 13, 2011 at 2:36pm in robot grasshopper rhino staubli sci-arc Ron real time plastic extruder processing thesis
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my theory of everything
new fabrications for architecture
Zachary Schoch < zacharyschoch (at) gmail.com >
Advisor: Eric Moss
Only an architectural Luddite would disagree that architecture is the subject of constant transmutation. This transmutation is necessary for architecture’s continued centrality in respect to society. The frequency and amplitude are becoming extreme. Neil Spiller :Digital Dreams. Page 23
If we do not actively engage in developing the technology of our built environment someone else will. The development of new techniques and technologies is an integral part of new Architecture.It is not enough for us to simply invent these ideas without testing them anymore. The testing and development of these techniques, materials and tools will lead to new techniques, new forms and new shapes which are unanticipated. Through experimentation we will learn how to orchestrate these processes.
Critical to this thesis is the idea that we must actually build, test, develop, and experiment with these tools and processes to intelligently propose using them.
Interface: The first development in this process allows designers a simple way to interact with complex machines. Custom communication software allows the simple real-time interfacing, controlling and programming of the once rigid and highly complex automated systems for fabrication. This largely achieved with the use of the processing environment allowing countless ways of creative interaction and experimentation.
Fabrication tool: With the additional development of the prototype fabrication tool (ron 2.0) the testing of full scale fabrication and control experimentation is a reality. Through making, new forms ideas and directions have already emerged….future areas of research are constantly appearing.
The end result is the collapse in the disparity between simulation and reality; the ability to use robots and automation as design tools as well as new ways of conceiving of and realizing architecture.
Posted August 11, 2011 at 12:43pm
Feed me. This is the end of Dennis that connects to Ron. The white tube from before is taped into the copper elbow, the elbow is connected to a swivel that I machined (180 deg of freedom) which is connected to the air outlet wrapped in wire mesh to keep the plastic trapped. Just past that is where Ron pulls in the material. The plastic will accumulate here but will always want to keep going, hopefully this works at more severe angles too. I am confident it will.
Posted August 10, 2011 at 4:39pm
