[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LSXvhLKjCU&w=470]
Touched is a project by [Rebecca Strauss] that integrates servos, strings, and felt into a horrifying kinetic sculpture made up of a dozen mechanical fingers straight from a Boschian nightmare.
The fingers are made up of segments of wood articulated with the help of a small string. Each pair of fingers is controlled by a single servo, and the tips of each pair of fingers is controlled by a second servo.
After covering them in felt, [Rebecca] wrapped conductive thread around each of the fingers. When some of the fingers are touched, they all recoil as if controlled by a demon living just under a mountain of felt.
[Rebecca] brought in another kinetic sculpture using her servo controlled fingers; in the video up at the top and after the break, you can see the inner workings of this floor-mounted version. When the IR proximity sensor goes off, the fingers recoil but can be coaxed out again by gently stroking one of the phalanges.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LSXvhLKjCU&w=470]
I hope the mods are on their toes today, because I have a terrible feeling about the comments that’ll follow.
So true. This has got naughty-comments written all over it.
Yeah, some people are childish dicks.
@Tony: Pedophile.
@pe fail English: are != want.
Look out, there’s a witch/demon/Nazi/commie/athiest/muslem/pedo behind you!
Sigh.
Looks kinda phallic to me!
Yea, I’m sure it would be illegal in most parts of the world.
Dicksamillion. R2-D2F. Rubbie the Rub-bot. The Tadgernator. Long-cutus of Dong. Bang-centennial Man. R. Daneel OlivAWWW YEAH. ASIM-Oh-face’. Cock-lossus, which merged with Guardian to become Willy Control. Chetter Hummer. John-Thomas #5. WILL-E. The robot from from Fritz Wang’s Meatropolis.
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I can always be coaxed out with gently stroking one of my phalanges
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I actually bookmarked this because it has so much comment potential.
I came just to comment “AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”, but seems everyone had the same idea.
Dammit Hackaday; so many naughty things come to mind.
Tentacles and girls don’t usually work that way, at least not yet.
I know several girls who would disagree with you on that subject.
this ranks up there on the weird scale with the Japanese butt project using emotional gestures as a thesis to justify it. I’m not even going to touch this one. I admit to being a quiet troll but this one doesn’t even need my help ^^;
Ohh dear… ;-)
Bookmarked this one as well :-)
Is it just me or is it a bit… phallic?
Or did I just fail some sort of secret Freud test?
Not just you, THOSE THINGS BEHIND HER ARE ERECT COCKS! How is she so oblivious? TENTACLES!!!!
AHAHAHAHAHAHHA :breathe: HAHAHAHAHAHA
How did I NOT see this while I was there!?
“If you pet it… just right… it will come out.”
-phallic array slowly rises-
“It’s the same for the one that controls the tip”
“AHAHAHAHAHAHHA :breathe: HAHAHAHAHAHA”
Repeat ad nauseum.
I can’t tell if she just has got awesome poker face or is oblivious to the obvious. I would suspect the former, especially considering the expert thumb motion as she “pets it juuust riiight”.
OMG I totally noticed that “petting action” she did. I’m sure that at home she uploads this different program that is the total opposite of it being afraid when touched.
Penises.
first one to call it by name.
You lose.
I uh … kinda share the same reflections when she rubbed them back up erect.
That is creepily brilliant!
commenting for the follow potential
aliens ___ tenticles
can’t believe she’s never seen hack a day.
Apparently there’s a a few more things she ain’t aware of.
I like the sudden recoil. It made the other person jump when she did it.
Oh my goodness…….
/me grabs the popcorn and awaits the comments….
Ive seen enough hentai to know where this is going.
Seriously though, this is an awesome build.
Live-action tentacle movies. That is all.
There must be something wrong with me. The first thing I thought of was sea anemones.
We ( as in readership) need to be allowed to add tags to any HaD article…..
+1
I know a few Japanese men that wept in excitement….
…a phobia of fingers is phallically faux pas…
Also bookmarked…
Let the comment machine begin!!
I can do the same things….without any electronic components
How very Tentacle High.
She seems very nice. Let’s call them tentacles. Lots of applications for that animation technique.
she sure likes tentacles..
Creeps me out!
I didn’t know I had any phobias till just now.
I see ‘large’ market potential but not in the expected/projected prosthetic hand/finger segment.
Tentacle Grape Juice comes to mind :)
That was my first… er… second, thought as well!
http://i.imgur.com/q3ZzL.jpg
I wonder if shes a fan of h.p. lovecraft?
either way it’s almost NSFW
they call em fingers…but I aint never seen ’em fing
Oh wait, there they go.
How this isn’t on Fark yet I will never know. LMAO
And the Japanese Oscar for special effects goes to …..
I wonder if she’s single… Anyway, it somewhat reminds me of the Day of the Tentacle intro, a classic PC game, “I feel like I could… TAKE ON THE WORLD!!!”
It also reminds me of typical evil monsters in “h” anime, or, the typical bikini-snatching octopus in regular anime.
+1 for DotT.
I think Iv seen some of her “kinetic sculptures’ on few more adult oriented websites.
Brian Benchoff you owe me a new cup of coffee and a keyboard.
Not sure if Ms. Strauss needs to watch less tentacle anime, or more.
…dactylophobia i guess? :D
that one or peosphobia either
I wonder what kind of boutiques she will be selling her sculpture through?
This is porn :-)
… just upload the right firmware :-)
I bet she likes horses.
“. . . straight from a Boschian nightmare.”
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’ve read American Gods too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch
– Robot
I actually think this is a really good interactive sculpture. . . and if it’s somewhat phallic that may well be the intent and lend to the “art”.
Perhaps the HaD readership should just go visit SF Armory already.
Also, HaD staff; that guy is an awful interviewer.
Finally, I think she’s trolling HaD.
Wouldn’t you?
if only I wasn’t married……
I don’t buy it…
Cthulhu is afraid of nothing.
AI falice? funny how she grabs it& it runs away ROTFL
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Really amazing build, very fluid motion.
Also, <3 showing exactly how it works under the hood.
Thanks jedahan – finally some mature feedback. Shame on the rest of you! You must be the only one who can’t see they really do look like a bunch of giant cocks.
I had to stop the video after she said:
“Can you grab me the one that moves manually?”.
To say it with Holden Caulfields words: “She just killed me.”
First thing that came to my mind as soon as I saw the project was: TENTACLES!