I found a bit of plastic tubing in the darkroom at work and decided to try making a 'robot' hand. The joints are made with duct tape and the tendons are 35kg fishing line. I plan to hook this thing up to an arduino and 5 servos so that the fingers can be controlled individually! The final plan is to have it controllable over the internet and viewed via a webcam.

I got a coffee grinder from my mum and dad and decided that it was too much effort manually grinding my own coffee. The obvious thing was to let the denizens of the interwebs do it for me! I hacked the grinder with a broken cordless drill and connected it to my computer so it can be switched on via my website.

Here is the first proper trial of my lo-fi floppy disk Augmented Reality display. You can see a couple of 3D models appearing, a floppy disk and a keyboard. You then see the stupid webcam setup which involves hanging a cam from my ceiling light just to see the display which is lying on the floor. Once finished, the display will be wall mounted.

This shows the lo-res display I made for displaying AR markers which are viewed using my home made Head Mounted Display. The floppy display consists of 36 double sided floppy disks, 1 Arduino, 5 Pololu servo microcontrollers, 36 servos, 72 pulley wheels and the whole thing is driven by 36 elastic bands. Power is supplied from an old computer PSU, 12v to the Arduino & Pololu and 5v to the servos.

This photo shows the lo-fi head mounted display I built for viewing AR markers on the floppy disk display. It was built using old computer parts, broken video cameras and kids toys. The white cables carry the camera and screen feeds seperately to the computer through a custom interface using an old 15 pin connector. The green button acts as a reset for the LCD screens as they don't seem to like the startup sequence of the computer and refuse to turn on unless switched on and off once the computer is running.

Me lookin like a bam(inspired by spytone )

This is a wee thing I made to entertain people who visit my website. If I'm sitting at my computer, and don't look busy, you can turn on the gun and it shoots rubber discs at me for 30 seconds! A Roboduino Duemilanove controls the servo and powers the gun itself. The whole setup is switched on and off by a Velleman K8055 USB interface board.

'wee robots' I've started makin wee robots out of scrap computer parts, they sit on you windowsill and charge themselves up all day, then at night their wee heads light up!!

'conker' This tiny tv screen inside a conker shows a 90 minute video loop of the tree that the conker came from. The screen image is so small that a magnifying glass is required for viewing.

'projector' This was the main piece in my BA degree show. It is a full frame 35mm projector made from a childs bike, car windscreen wiper motor, dexion shelving, old slide projector and a stroboscope. The piece played an endless loop of the film you see here. I put a half twist in the film so that it became a mobius strip, when played it would show the projector rotating clockwise through 360deg then anticlockwise through360deg, even though it only turned one way on the film.

'smashy smashy' This is a piece that was made on a whim. The original frame for the 35mm projector was made of wood, I decided that this was not the best material and so took the frame out to the bin. I smashed it up whilst filming myself using a crappy cameraphone. I had an old tablet PC lying about and decided that it should become part of my degree show, used as a video display.

'running man' This video shows the first test run of my 'runningman' piece from my BA degree show. The final piece was painted white and the wires you can see were tidied up a bit. The screen was from a pocket television and the power was supplied to it through the rotating table by metal brushes pushing against a steel measuring tape which i glued onto the outer diameter of the turntable. The animation itself is made from a selection of the famous Muybridge photographs.

'zoetrope' This was a piece from my BA degree show, it shows a loop of the snojump movie (also on youtube). The loop was printed on 35mm slide film and attached to the perspex drum. The image was viewed through an adapted slide viewer and the speed of the drums rotation and the shutter speed were controlled by the dials you can see on the front panel. The drum was turned by an old cordless drill and the 'shutter' was a stroboscope. Problems with digital video cameras means that you can't see the image being displayed in this film.