Pixel Roller

New Pixel Roller video up

rAndom international — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:51:09 +0000

Just added another video of the Pixel Roller in action from ann image we took of ourselves (Stuart and Flo) in Copenhagen last week. Click here or the image above to go there now.

pixel Roller goes to Copenhagen

rAndom international — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:52:22 +0000

rAndom is rolling into Copenhagen for the opening of the innovation lab (Copenhagen branch) today. Bring some Faxe and find out more at their site

Following our (stuart and flo's) trip to Copenhagen last week, we have finally put some of the images we took of un-suspecting visitors of the show up online, click the image above to go there and take a wee peek.

Interaction Design Interim Show

rAndom international — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:41:36 +0000

Pictures have been added to the gallery section of the pixel roller working live at the Royal College of Arts interaction Design interim show 2005.

The show is still on and the pixel roller will be up and running on Wednesday 9th during the private view of the IDE show upstairs between 6 and 9pm.

Pixel rolling portraits

rAndom international — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 15:13:01 +0000

After much tinkering, setting and re-setting, we finally got the pixel roller acurate enough to print canvas areas. Some of the results are below...

Click the image above to go to Pixel Roller > Gallery for full resolution images or go to Pixel Roller > Video for video clips of it in action. very cool btw.

Pixel rollers first public appearence...

rAndom international — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:51:12 +0000

Will be at the Royal College of Art's Interaction Design interim show. You will be able to play with the first Pixel Roller prototype: Light Roller, which uses high intensity UV LED's to excite Phosporescent paper leaving an image made from light. Check out the flyer below for all the details.

note: the flyer graphic is made from an image made by the Light Pixel Roller prototype.

Long exposure shots on doors...

rAndom international — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:52:04 +0000

While waiting for the phosphorescent ink sheets to be printed by the kind kind people up in Print making (here at the Royal College of Art), we had a play with doing some long exposure shots using a door window... check out the pic below, you might be able to make out at least a bit of our logo!

Prototype one ready!

rAndom international — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:34:14 +0000

The first prototype is ready for testing. It uses a series of 12 Ultra bright UV LEDs which excite phosphorescent ink as it passes leaving pixels behind... here's a quick pic of it... ohhh, electronics!!

Pixel rolling in processing...

rAndom international — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:10:15 +0000

Started working on the prototypes of the pixel rollers using processing. Wonderful little Java applet builder developed by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. Check out an early on-screen version of the pixel roller...

Pixel Rolling starts

rAndom international — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 21:28:07 +0000

The "Pixel Roller" project is a collabortive investigation into a new creative tool between Stuart Wood and Florian Ortkrass.

For more information, please go to the project overview section.