Author Archives: greg

A couple of months back, the guys at GitHub bought a stoplight. They ordered it on Ebay from a seller in the UK. Their plan was to hook it up to their build system. The idea was that when they … Continue reading →

This post is the second in a series I’ll be writing this week catching up on documenting projects I worked on this semester. The ITP semester goes by like a steam-powered locomotive and good documentation is frequently the first thing … Continue reading →

This post is the first in a series I’ll be writing this week catching up on documenting projects I worked on this semester. The ITP semester goes by like a steam-powered locomotive and good documentation is frequently the first thing … Continue reading →

I wrote recently about the design and production process for an ongoing video I was making for the song Ambulance by TV On The Radio in collaboration with Calli Higgins. Well, I’m proud to announce that we finished the video … Continue reading →

For the last five weeks or so, I’ve been working on stop motion video for the song Ambulance by TV On The Radio. I started it for the stop motion assignment for Methods of Motion, have continued it on through … Continue reading →

For Mechanisms and Things That Move this week, Dustyn asked us to draw a Free Body Diagram for some common household object. Since I’ve been spending nearly every waking minute beside my camera shooting a stop motion animation, I chose … Continue reading →

A while back, I mentioned that I was working on a Flash animation about a corkscrew for Methods of Motion. Not too long thereafter, I finished the animation, but had neglected to post it here until now. It’s called Open. … Continue reading →

Our first assignment in Mechanisms and Things That Move earlier this semester was to build a Rube Goldberg device that cracked an egg using no fewer than 5 energy transfers. The majority of the egg and no more than half … Continue reading →

For my fourth and final 4-in-4 project, I built something I’ve been planning to make for a long time. A number of years ago, I got this image stuck in my head of what the world would look like if … Continue reading →

For day 3 of the 4-in-4, I made a Blender model of an Atari cartridge, specifically, “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial” from 1983. This model is the first step on a large project I’m undertaking: a diorama depicting a hoard of millions … Continue reading →