The Senster
November 13th, 2009The Senster was a robotic sculpture developed by Edward Ihnatowicz in the late 60′s. It was commisioned by Philips and part of their permanent showplace, the Evoluon, in Eindhoven between 1970 and 1974. It was the first robotic sculpture to be controlled by a computer and could react to the behaviour of the visitors with its sound and movement sensors. The computer used to control The Senster was a Philips P9201 and had only 8K of core memory. Now, almost 40 years later, every interaction student could make something like this and fit the logic in a small box. But this is still an amazing project.
This was the control panel of the Senster.
rediscovered this during the rAndom international talk at the designtransfer event of the UDK Berlin
November 13th, 2009 at 2:06 am
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November 16th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
It actually still exists. After the museum closed the company responsible for welding it took it back and turned it into a sculpture: http://www.dse.nl/~evoluon/sensnu.html
November 17th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
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November 18th, 2009 at 12:00 am
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January 18th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
It badly needs sandblasting and conservating.
I still offer to do this when possible
October 25th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
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