The Jummy machine on the left was created for
Boondoggle and their client
Delhaize. It has over 14 motors, controlled by an Arduino board, with a wireless link to a Flash Air interface. He has a fully functional head and neck, and two arms of which one has a hand for picking up stuff. And of course we made sure he has the absolute maximum amount of cuteness. Visit the actual
campaignsite.It is very important to mention that this project would not have been made without the many efforts by
Dieter Vanhoof and
Niels Schreyers, the creative team at Boondoggle, and their creative director
Hans Kerkhoff, to push this project through. Below you can see the first scetches they gave me as a brief for this project. Dispite the many technical challenges I believe I came pretty close.
I got a call for this project the morning after I came back from Berlin, where we were attending the
Pictoplasma conference. With my head still full of characters you can imagine the excitement I felt, when I could combine 2 of my biggest passions,
interactive installationsand
character design, in one project !
It took me 5 weeks to build this robot. I will post a more extended making-of soon but in the meantime you can watch this video from the shooting of his portrait further below.