Zane Murray and I collaborated on a project to develop a piece of funiture for the ICFF going on here in New York City (icff.com/page/home.asp).

Our concept is to envision environments that are not made up of static objects, but fluid and dynamic systems that respond to simple gestures, taking various desired forms.

The programming for this project was done with two Ardweeny chips running an Arduino program that I wrote making use of the Servo library. These chips were placed on to two separate pc boards attached to full-rotation servo motors as well as proximity sensors and reed switches. The reed switches were placed at the end of each row and magnets were used to consistently calibrate the location of the wheeled carts guiding the nitinol.

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