mini-dirigible

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mini-dirigibleThe LAB featured an art:tech show for a month, and I would have missed it if Cristian hadn’t pointed it out. The cleverest bit were 3 balloons manned by houseflies (wait, does that make it “fly”ed by houseflies? Flied? Flown?…).
They controlled the rotation of the propellors by triggering sensors connected to LEDs inside of the little domes suspended underneath.

 

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Aponeurotica is an accidental software engineer but more importantly a lover of abrasive music, the natural world, and drawing strange little things. Their formal training is in printmaking, preservation of 19th century photographs, bookbinding, anatomical illustration and the art of permaculture.