Analog Robot
"R-ie" is an analog robot handcrafted with love and "rivets" from the raw bones of old wood and rusty gears. He was commissioned to house the parking validation system at R.House, a food stall market in Remington, Baltimore.
The materials were salvaged locally by Brick + Board and re-imagined for a new life: century-old yellow pine with laser engraved details, vintage machine parts polished to a soft patina, and a pair of embedded LEDs that bring light to his eyes when your ticket is validated.
Sanded up and oiled for his debut at R.House.
Sanded up and oiled for his debut at R.House.
I used a laser cutter to etch an analog interface into the wood with instructions on how to validate your parking ticket.
Planning sketches for the R.House robot parking validation system.
Cardboard prototype for "R'ie". A little top heavy if you ask me.
Rusty old machine parts salvaged from factories by Details Deconstruction.
After grinding off a century of rust, these old machine parts gleam like new!
100+ year-old yellow pine salvaged from old Baltimore rowhomes by Details Deconstruction and Brick+Board. AKA "robot bones"
Finished details.
Finished details.
Finished details.
"In the spirit of locally sourced ingredients, this robot is made of wood from old Baltimore rowhomes and hardware from the Bethlehem Steel factory, carefully salvaged by Brick + Board."
Sanded up and oiled for his debut at R.House.
Renderings of the space before it existed.
Renderings of the space before it existed.
