Throughout history, the main function of a timepiece was to simply tell time. Now the modern timepiece notifies us not only of the hour but when confronted with texts, emails, appointments, and a myriad other alerts. ClockooBird imagines what life is like for the modern cuckoo bird, no longer on a set schedule but always required to be ready at a moment’s notice.
This interactive installation project was made for “Pop Up Windows Display” course at NYU- ITP 2016, a class taught by Gabe Barcia-Colombo.
Technology used
- CNC Fabrication (of the two professionally made cuckoo clocks)
- Webcam (takes picture)
- Javascript
- Node.js
- Twitter bot (posts pictures to twitter)
- Physical Computing (control doors and clock gears)
See more at https://twitter.com/clockoobird. Created in collaboration with Kevin G Stirnweis, Nikita Huggins, Xinyao Wang and Shir David.