Rinna ♥︎ 猫りんな (rinna)

Once A Broken Soul : Interactive Diorama Art When touching the big heart on top of the diorama, the broken spirit comes back to life. ジオラマの上にあるハートを触ったら壊れた魂が復活します。 The eyes of the doll glows with electromagnetic power. The heart is the light sensor controlled by Raspberry Pi Pico. The LED resembles the heart beat rhythm. 目が電磁で光って、ハートはライトセンサーで、LEDは心臓の鼓動のリズムを模倣します。全部はRaspberry Pi Picoでコントロールされてます。 My very first time experimenting with hardware as an art piece. My continuous journey in bridging the gap between art & tech. 私の初のハードウェアアートの実験シリーズです。これからもアートと技術を組み合わせて作品を続けて作ります。

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Added 4 ear servos, 1 camera. Now she boots from the solid state drive, not a micro SD Geeky stuff no one needs to know 🎀

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Adding her ears 🎀 The servos need extra power so I had to add the PCA9685 and connect them directly to the power supply.

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Now she is blinking ✨ I use 2 HyperPixel round displays for her eyes. Each needs a Pi Zero to operate separately. Then I sync them but with another Pi5 which will be her brain to control her other components as well. My pixel art flower animation looks nice as her eyes 🩵✨

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Behind the scenes 🕶️ Putting the eyes to the right positions with the face’s curve is challenging. So I tinkered and improved with many versions of the structure. Finally I get it right 顔の曲線に合わせて目の位置を調整するのは難しかった。そこで、なんとか何度もストラクチャーを試行錯誤して改良を重ねて、やっと出来ましたw

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Quietly creating ✨ I have finished the technical architecture design, and now putting in some components. The character sheet and back story are ready too. Lots of no visual work behind the scene. It’s going to be a lot of work toward my solo exhibition in October in Japan 🎀

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I have 1 eyebrow now 😆 All because I just want to see how long my 12 - stitch wound is like (it’s the weird x shape goes up until my bang but my hair covered it, pity it doesn’t look like anime-cool kind of scar) so I can take care of it properly.

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