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Knitted police tape

Knitted police tape is a pattern for police tape that is featured on the cover of Craft Magazine Volume 4.
 
Inside Out Life Story

Inside Out Life Story is an artwork that combines animatronics, art music, automated theatrical sets, lighting effects and robotic intelligence.
 
Wildflower Meadow Glacier

Presented at 2004 Artbots, the Wildflower Meadow Glacier is an autonomous robotic sculpture that plants flowers and monitors local climate change and CO2 levels.
 
Mars Exploration Rover Rock Abrasion Tool

The Rock Abrasion Tool was designed, developed, and operated by Honeybee Robotics in order to remove dust and rind from martian rocks to reveal fresh underlying features.
 
Honeybee Robotics

A short parade of space robots.
Music: an excerpt from "2 movements for 3" by James Powderly.
 
Collaborations with Artists and Arts Organizations

Robot Clothes has provided engineering consultation for various artists installations and Eyebeam's R & D group.
 
CTY

This is the story of Icarus meets Ziggy Stardust set on the inverted stage of Dante's Divine Comedy. The City in CTY is New York City, of course.
 
Compositions

Compositions & music by James Powderly
 
Natura Morte

Natura Morte is a painterly rendered live video piece that draws a viewers body over time into a multi-perspective still life. Natura Morte, along with a short treatise on an aesthetics for the unconscious body, was James Powderly's ITP master's thesis.
 
Gesture

Gesture is a video installation that renders the participants as gestural drawings in real time. Coded in Java by Michelle Kempner.
 
Peek!

Peek! discreetly tracks a voyeur’s eye movement as they watch a live video stream to create a revealing collage of moving and still images that reveal where the voyeur is looking. Exhibited at the 2001 Spring Physical Computing Show and the 2001 ITP Thesis Fellows Show, NYC.
 
ILL shoes

Ill shoes use data from sensors within the sole of the shoes and network traffic on an MP3 server to create a sequenced light show on your feet. This project was done in collaboration with Megan Phalines.
 
Slope Style

A snowboarding jacket that displays images transmitted from a mobile phone. Robot Clothes provided the programming for the prototype presented at the E-Culture fair.