In my opinion - art and science have a common ground: innovation drives them both. The difference between them is that the art is the unbounded edge of science - therefore scientists can be artists but I am not sure about the opposite.
This page lists a number of projects in which I was envolved…
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Windmill Knitting Machine - 2009
Collaboration project between Merel Karhof, a student from Royal College of Art, and Yaroslav Tenzer, a student from Imperial College London.
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One day Merel came to me with Wikuna (1920) knitting machine and an idea to wind power it, this combination would produce an environmentally friendly product. It was quite an interesting and challenging engineering project as I was trying to design a mechanism without making any changes to the knitting machine.
Later we figured out that it was also over-ambitious project due to time restrictions and manufacturing limitations.
We have also discovered that the machine stuck when works on very slow speeds, and other people helped us to smooth the mechanism - by sandpapering.
Nevertheless, despite all the difficulties, the machine was finished on time and actually worked ! but only when wind blew in the right direction ;))
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the homepage of the Wind Knitting Factory
m4v movie with good resolution
Electricity Beggar - 2008
A collaboration project between Oren Tirosh and Yaroslav Tenzer during the Geekcon 2008, Israel.
"Machines and living creatures rely on energy to exist; humans rely on food while robots rely on electricity. No energy means death. This is why seeing a beggar on the street brings us emotions, but will a begging robot pleading for energy under a real threat of electricity cut, be able to bring any emotions ?" quoted from here
More about the project you can find on the official page [http://www.bestwackyideas.com/ideas:beggar-robot]
SoundChaser - 2008
Collaboration project between Yuri Suzuki, a student from Royal College of Art and Yaroslav Tenzer, a student from Imperial College London.
"A train-style record player. Users connect the chipped pieces of records together to make new tracks. The records pieces are from cheap records bought at jumble sales or used record shops. This record player revives forgotten, old records." - quoted from here
