Rolly Frost from russelldavies on Vimeo.
I posted about the Rolly a while ago. It's clearly an odd, atemporal object. Something that fell out of Sony before the world was ready and the price was right. It makes sense at about £30. Not the £500 they were asking. But I've been fascinated because you can programme the behaviour, so I've been trying to instruct it to do a convincing recitation of a favourite bit of Robert Frost. I've not done an especially good job but it still hints at the possiblities of second thing that fascinates me - the idea of embodying media in objects.
A little robot performing Robot Frost. That's futurey.
I now want to make a seashell that plays Permanent Bedtime. Anyone know of a cheap, recordable soundchip that can take about 10 minutes of sound?