Robert Zacharias's Projects
Companion for Project Amelia (interactive theatre piece about the consequences and futures of AI in society)
Arduino sketch that reads 4 inputs and drives 4 outputs (not all at once!)
a few Arduino "recipe" PDFs meant for printing on dead trees and handing out in intro classes
Python script for building printable labels for bins; reads a CSV for data and incorporates external image files
A Unity VR experience using Cardboard, which leads users on a journey through a day in the life of an afterschool program. Created by middle- and high-school students in Wilkinsburg, PA.
plans for an interactive bus stop machine to encourage members of the public to engage creatively with each other
using an industrial robot to print children's models of city blocks onto cakes in frosting. What could possibly be more obvious?
Processing sketch to analyze folder of images of candlesticks, extract their profiles, and print these to a PDF in order of their jaggedness.
Documentation of my repair work on Steve Lambert's piece *Capitalism Works for Me*
Draws a live pulse on a US Cutter MH871-MK2 pen plotter.
performance project in collaboration with Slowdanger
companion viewer application for Touchey Facey: see robzach/toucheyFacey
A light follows you around the room. Data from Kinect, via Processing, to an Arduino to drive motors.
Arduino sketches for reading frequency of oscillation on a pin, and logging that data
Materials from the ISAM 102 workshop offered at Carnegie Mellon University on Oct. 18, 2023
Processing visualization of 34.5k meteor strikes on Earth
building the system for IDeATe's public-facing parts database website (using Python to read a spreadsheet of basic part data, populate Jekyll's "_items" folder, and generate a static HTML site)
interaction device: two kiosks in remote locations encourage strangers to have a positive engagement with each other
family recipes, and nonfamily recipes
Editable source for the Arduino Reference
Using keyboard input from an RFID reader to trigger media playing on a laptop, in different creative coding environments. These materials assembled for a PD offered to Propel Braddock Hills MS
Schematic and firmware for a very IDeATe / MechE MakerWing Halloween
spoooooooky sound generator for a very IDeATe/MakerWing Halloween at CMU
Arduino code for Tide Tank, a fish tank with a water level proportional to the local tide
System using a Makey Makey and Kinect to allow one person to make a 3D map of the other's face through finger touches
work for my Tough Art Residency at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
simple Arduino + Processing system to drive an Etch-a-Sketch like screen interaction from two potentiometers
simple Twitter bot that generates an image of some colored balls blown by the latest wind reading