A model to repurpose private infrastructure - such as scaffolding-, to create free space.

 

The Wildest Animal is an on-going project about imagine new ways of living with our waste and how to domesticate it.

 

Buckys are a series of snowglobes about the hopeless possibilities of sustainability based on consumption and green capitalism.

Bucky I from ChocolateRobot on Vimeo.

Tanda Foundation is a freestyle non for profit, that merges the logic of 501(c)(3) organizations and the tanda model, to create a web 2.0 social network that harness the power generated by large amount of people, to collect micro-funds towards the support of creative practice.

 

 

The Lightcoder is a symbolic object that explores the possibilities of survival in an urban environment, bringing attention to the vulnerability of digital technology and embracing its entropy through alternative interaction that don't rely on dominant technologies.
The Lightcoder is an analog communication device. A "rebozo"-style bag, made out of reflective mylar that use natural or artificial light to encode messages into morse code.
The Pocket LightCoder is a free tool. If you need one for your survival kit, shoot an email to: jerry@eyebeam.org

The Great Wikimarathon is a one-day event that unites art lovers around the world in an attempt to collectively fill in the gaps of contemporary art knowledge found on wikipedia. The WikiMarathon is is a recurrent and uncentralized, happening everytime a weekend lands on the 26th of a month, since marathons are 26 miles long. Participants gather locally, at house parties and coffee shops in their neighborhood, to brainstorm and create content on contemporary and new media artists and programs. These small local groups then gather online in an open chat to streamline productivity and help each other edit their Wikipedia posts.

This project started out as the Milkscanner (as described on instructables). The basic idea behind this process is that you can capture the silhouette of an object easily when it is surrounded by a high contrast fluid, such as milk or ink.
When lowering the object into the fluid, the silhouette changes gradually, as the fluid obstructs more and more of the objects shape. By capturing the silhouette of an object at different stages of submersion, one can generate slices, that, if properly stacked together, can be interpreted as 3D data.

Here's a documentation video of a recent inkscanning performance:

inkscanner @ eyebeam Mixer from Friedrich Kirschner on Vimeo.

With the creation of BoozBot, Eyebeam Fellows David Jimison and Jeff Crouse have now added the bartending robot to that list of creative roles for automatons. The birth of BoozBot opens a fresh chapter at the intersection of technology, human interaction, and the science of personality. BoozBot converses with the wit and wisdom of your favorite corner barkeep, pouring drinks, monitoring sobriety, and engaging patrons one-on-one.

Openframeworks is a c++ library designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation.

The library is designed to work as a general purpose glue, and wraps together several commonly used libraries under a tidy interface: openGL for graphics, rtAudio for audio input and output, freeType for fonts, freeImage for image input and output, quicktime for video playing and sequence grabbing.

The code is written to be both cross platform and cross compiler. The API is designed to be minimal and easy to grasp. There are very few classes, and inside of those classes, there are very few functions. The code has been implemented so that within the classes there are minimal cross-referening, making it quite easy to rip out and reuse, if you need, or to extend.

Simply put, openFrameworks is a tool that makes it much easier to make things via code.

OpenFrameworks is actively developed by Zach Lieberman and Theodore Watson along with help from the OF community.

check out what people have made with OF:

made with openFrameworks from openFrameworks on Vimeo

 

Bare CFL bulbs give off harsh light. Soften it with the Bright Idea Shade.

The Bright Idea Shade is a project of the Eyebeam OpenLab, by Sustainability Action Group members Michael Mandiberg and Steve Lambert, with Simon Jolly, Peter Duyan, and Oscar Torres. We are converting all of our silver tipped incandescent bulbs into CFL bulbs (as they burn out.) The problem is a bare CFL bulb gives off very harsh light. So we set about designing a lampshade for the bulbs. We started with the Universal Polygon Lampshade and made it fit a CFL bulb, built it out of heat resistant photo diffuser material (found a diffuser material that could be laser cut, and built a laser cutter template. Stay tuned for an instructable with all the templates and other goodness. Plus a DIY kit.