Mechanisms to move, actuate or simulate.

This is a test for a recent project using the "persistence of vision" effect. It consists of a varispeed motor with a two meter arm. In the film on the left an i-phone is attached half way along, so as to make a circle of 1meter diameter.


We made the first tests using a LED matrix running from an Arduino, later we moved over to the i-phone as light source.

In this test film the arm is turning at approximately 120 r.p.m. & the telephone moves at 45 km/hour

We have developed an adaptable conveyor belt system that can be resized to fit any particular context...

The speed, timing and triggering can easily be controlled...

Mechanisms to move, actuate or simulate. This fully articulated robot arm was developed for Art Director Erik Rikkelman. The arm can hold large chess pieces in a variety of positions.

Grey advertising asked us to make a working '70s digital clock for a film for their client Becel. On a very short deadline we improvised a working mechanism. Using available cogs and materials we managed to empirically work out the geometry of the mechanism. Not only did the mechanism have to work but it had to fit in a small ball. We started with a transparent ball to see what was going on...later the ball was sprayed in Becel colours.

A mobile Dymo printer...The smallest available model car had to be reconstructed and optimised to fit...

A hand gearshift is a bottle of beer. The positions of the gear stick were made by cutting a simple pattern in card for the stick to follow. (Gimble courtesy of Robert Pachowski).

Fruit blender mechanism is designed so that the fruit in the blender remain visible through the opaque liquid during the start up of the blender. To do this the fruit had to remain close to the surface of the beaker, as it rised up in sequence and on a fixed path.

A set of individual releases made for Brian Morris to drop fruit around the lens of a high speed camera.