open for business: RZD

24Feb09

www.rzdesign.biz
Since september I have been setting up an office and fabrication/prototyping shop in Brooklyn and its now official and open for business:  located 3 stops off of the L train in brooklyn in a beautiful warehouse space, I have an office/computer room for everything clean – coding, printing, physical computing, and a large shop space [...]

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prototyping and fabricating

19Jan09

I have been doing prototyping for a sustainable energy start up in Brooklyn, SMIT – sustainable minded interactive technology, for the past two years.
I have been working mostly on data-logging and visualization for their solar/wind hybrid system from a sensor network that graphs both energy stored over time with wind speed, temperature and light intensity.  [...]

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indoor energy harvester update

01Oct08

The inDOOR Harvester was installed on a door leading from the stair well to the main lobby of the ITP program on the fourth floor of the Tisch Building at NYU in May and has been running since.  I had to change how often it uploaded to the dataBase as my php script would crash [...]

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presentation

15May08

here is a link to a 15 min quicktime video from the presentation i gave to the Interactive Telecommunication Program(ITP) at NYU. Everything you wanted to know about energy harvesting from the things that people do everyday and my efforts to prototype this system and how it works. – it may take a little [...]

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A housing in the works

22Apr08

I spent the evening with a good friend of mine, Matthew Flego an industrial designer, at his metal fabrication shop, Ferra Design in the Brooklyn Navy Yards. He and I plotted out the design for a 12 gauge stainless steal housing for the inDOOR Harvester module in Solid Works, a 3d object CAD application.

The [...]

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story time

23Mar08

it went a little something like this:

“there is an old story about Thomas Edison.
Henry Ford was visiting Edison one day,
and found it hard to push open the front gate at Edison’s yard.
When Ford chided the world’s greatest inventor about his rusty gate,
Edison replied Ford had just pumped a gallon of water out of the well!”
- [...]

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√ your expectations at the door

20Feb08

this gives a general idea of what is involved, yummy…
a few problems here:
1. conversions and equations: E=1/2MV2 relates to work done on an object linearly through space, where M=mass and V=velocity, without friction/resistance. What I need to look at is rotational kinetic energy, Er=1/2Iw2, where I=moment of inertia and w=angular velocity.
2. efficiency of [...]

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Thesis documentation

03Feb08

From now on – most of my thesis documentation will be posted here:
http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/rz403
or just go to the links column on the right.

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Quote of the day

02Dec07

I’m generally not one for inspirational quotes, but i came upon this again while waiting for the subway after the first snow of the season had already turned grey and yellow.
“It is something to be able to be paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue and so to make a few objects beautiful; [...]

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Its Shirky time: Arrogance and Humility

13Oct07

Thought this was a great little article by Clay that speaks to a few seemingly self evident truths about design that when put well are nice reminders.

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