As a part of a collaboration between Milk and Intel, "Adorned", a MUZSE exhibit that dissected our cultural history of wearable technology from the past, surrounding us in the present, and taking a look at where we’re headed in the future. For a central element of the exhibit Brooklyn Research designed and built a 20 [...]
Brooklyn Research was proud to help Bond Gifts showcase their unique handwritten notes service at the 2014 TED conference in Vancouver, Canada. We built a custom computer-controlled “handwriting” system and paper feeder mechanism that fed a 100 foot long span of tweets on paper across Target’s “Write the Next Chapter” social space. Over the course [...]
Lexus kicked off the 2014 New York Fashion Week with their annual Design Disrupted event. This year they highlighted British designer Gareth Pugh via an immersive fashion presentation. Brooklyn Research was brought in to help create the interactive portion of the performance. We created a mechanism that enabled users to control larger than life videos [...]
A twelve camera array controller. For this project we built a custom circuit board from scratch that can trigger 12 individual cameras in sequence using up to 5 different precision sensor inputs. The controller allows for precise timing adjustment between each camera shutter in milliseconds.
We took a conventional snack vending machine and transformed it into a slick touch enabled social media vending machine. The vending machine allowed users to sign in to Facebook or Twitter, post a picture, and then choose a free item to be dispensed. We built custom circuits that integrated with the original vending machine motors and [...]
When asked if we could build a motor controller rugged enough to go on tour to control a 6 foot wide mirror... Why not? You need it to be controlled via your favorite software package over the net? Sure, we did that too.
