The Starling Bird Bot
Designer/artist: African Robots, Cape Town / Harare
Year:
2016
Description:
This bird bot prototype is a mechanical starling, imitating a common urban bird in Cape Town. Running on a Nokia phone battery, it incorporates a sound-synthesizer whose pitch depends on light exposure, glowing LED eyes, and head and wing movement via a hacked motor.
About the designer:
African Robots is an art and technology project based in South Africa which creates interactive electronic street art - ‘street art’ here means art sold by local craftsmen in South Africa and Zimbabwe, using inexpensive materials like electrical wire, beads and waste wood. African Robots lead by artist Ralph Borland works with artisans, sharing skills to catalyse innovation.
www.africanrobots.net
Image credit: Starling, by Ralph Borland 2016
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