The Beast- still a work in progress

Thursday tutorial opened my eyes on the possibilities within our devices. But with that said, my beast is still a work in progress. With recent research directing me toward movement within Automata a catalyst for emotional response within an audience, my focus was to interact by way of sensing movement. My aim is to create a beast which responds to its environment, through it own movement, within its own construct, independent and self motivating. I came across a work by Edward Ihnatowicz, The Senster, a robotic sculpture that principally responded to voice but also responds to movement.

Edward built an oscilloscope from old radar parts, using radar technology to detect movement. Unpredictable behaviour of the audience during its exposition resulted in more sophisticated movement. This relationship between audience and device i important, its alludes to this idea of the response of the environment affecting the behaviour of the sculpture. An adapting behaviour. This relationship between the 'robot' and the 'patrons' reminds me of the same connection an audience has with the Automata of the 18Th century. My own beast i decided would use some particular circuits, a relay circuit and a differentiators circuit, that will utilize light sensors to sense movement around them and between each component. Other devices like timers and potentiometers might be helpful to attribute a more independent behaviour.

So far i have explored and failed miserablly on those two types of circuits i want to layout. in the end of the day i ended up with a relay switch attached to both devices, the hand and the turtle components, where when the turtle is set off the hand will activate within 8 seconds. It might be interesting to create a loop by activating the hand, relaying it to the turtle components which activate the motion sensor of tha hand and continues onward. However i having issues activating the turtle within the relay setup. more work to do.