Brooklyn Research collaborated with Death By Audio Arcade on building a universal controller board for Bumblebear Games' arcade cabinets. The current features of the board include: 32 distinct button inputs, 16 addressable +12V LED outputs, 40W AB Audio Amplifier, digital volume control, support for WS2812 and APA102 LEDs, Serial Communication, unique Molex Connectors for all inputs [...]
Brooklyn Research worked with Google to conceptualize, design, and develop to create a unique badge for events held in honor International Women's Day and Women Techmakers. After sketching a series of designs, Brooklyn Research created a simple mobile app and badge printer which allowed attendees to create a badge of themselves rendered into ASCII art [...]
Brooklyn Research collaborated with Reddymade, Reveal Design Group, and Bendark to create the Times Square Valentine Heart sculpture for February 2019. We specifically focused on the interactive portion of the sculpture. As people enter the space underneath the X sculpture the lighting through the ellipse openings gets triggered and eventually brightens. As each new person steps [...]
Brooklyn Research collaborated with Hush in the Light Forest installation at the Instagram lobby in San Francisco. The space engages guests in both exploration and content creation. We celebrate content on Instagram’s platform as three-dimensional audio-visual experiences that also become a photogenic environment – an infinite loop. Brooklyn Research worked on the interaction portion of [...]
Brooklyn Research worked with artist Toni Dove to create an interactive robotic torso and skirt that responds to a user's movements. This robotic mechanism was part of the piece "The Dress That Eats Souls", that Toni Dove created. Taking input from a Kinect depth camera, the piece tracks a user's head and body movement. Those [...]
Brooklyn Research worked with artist Ivana Bašić on two of her pieces, A thousand years ago ten seconds of breath were 40 grams of dust #1 and #2, for her show Through the Hum of Black Velvet Sleep. Both sculptures were nearly identical. Based on the designs of the artist, Brooklyn Research designed the electrical [...]
Brooklyn Research worked with artist Jamian Juliano-Villani to modify a 1955 J-L Seeburg jukebox to play custom audio prepared for her piece Same Time Next Year (Part One). The custom audio would only play when a user selected one of five selections on the selector panel. If a user made a selection but it wasn't [...]
Brooklyn Research worked with Brooklyn Model Works to help design and fabricate an automated selfie stick for the television show UnReal on Lifetime. The automated selfie stick allowed users to control the distance of the phone/camera to the user. High powered LED lights were installed that users could control by the push of a button. [...]
Brooklyn Research designed and programmed the lights for Mika Tajima's temporary outdoor sculpture for Sculpture Center. The color of the lights change throughout the day to reflect the rate of change of gold valuation via a real time data feed. The lights are set against the backdrop of Midtown Manhattan and are accompanied by a [...]
https://player.vimeo.com/video/167827924 Brooklyn Research collaborated with Urban Matter in developing an interactive sound and light tree for the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. The Sound Tree has nine branches/fins installed that are lined with diffused LED lighting and animated through an color sequence when not activated. Once a user enters the [...]
