A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
Topic(s): Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags: semi-automomy, robot, swarm, wireless connectivity, emergent behavior, artificial systems, sphere,
SWARM is a kinetic art work of semi-autonomous spherical robots ("Orbs"). Each robot has a shell 30 inches in diameter, with batteries, motors, audio system and color LED illumination inside. The SWARM is under the command of an on-board computer with wireless connectivity to other orbs and a central computer.
Marnia Johnston is a sculptor living in Concord, California. She is an interdisciplinary instigator collaborating with engineers, biologists, programmers and tinkerers.
