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Maker Faire Austin 2008
Video Head
The Video Head Project was inspired by the amazing art project called Drum Head by Murat Konar. In a attempt to take it to the next level, the Video Head will have multiple mouth and eye expressions in order to display a wider range of emotions and interactions. The foam head gives the image an eerie lifelike 3-d appearance.
My daughter Catherine is serving as the model to provide the range of expressions. A java program will control cutting and pasting the different eye and mouth images in real time to make the head appear to interact with the audience. In addition, sensor feedback will help determine the facial expression.
Web site: http://wiki.therobotgroup.org/wiki/VideoHead
About the Maker(s)
Eric Lundquist
Eric is a past president of The Robot Group and has been involved in amateur robotics for over 10 years. A software engineer by day, by night he enjoys "getting his hands dirty" with the physical hardware aspects that robotics offers.
http://www.robotgroup.net/index.cgi/EricLundquist
