16:05 Thursday, 2 September 2010
Robotic Plant
Kyushu University student Akira Nakayasu has made a robotic plant which he is displaying at the Ars Electronica 2010 Repair Festival. The plant reacts to hands waved over the top by slowly moving its leaves and changing the sounds it makes. The 169 robotic leaves are driven via a PIC controller which processes input from an overhead infrared camera to determine how the leaves should move.
Video of the installation is embedded below from YouTube:
More at designboom and Flickr.
