Mechanical Cockroach stalks Zemeckis Center
Garnet Hertz's infamous Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot made a surprise appearance in CTCS 505: Survey of Interactive Media last night during a presentation by Critical Studies grad student Amelia Guimarin and IMD's own Sean Bouchard. The Roachbot was Hertz's Master's thesis project in the Arts Computation Engineering program at UCI, using a Madagascan hissing cockroach that controls a modified trackball to maneuver a three-wheeled robot. I for one would like to see some IMD thesis projects explore the possibilities of cockroach as CPU.