SAINSBURY COLLECTION Workshop may 2008

CHINESE LED DISPLAY / BINARY TO CHINESE CONVERTER

When the handle is turned, this relay - based computer first counts the number of turns in 3 bits of binary, enabling it to count from 0 to 7. The next stage of the machine translates this into sequential output, but for convenience I have renumbered these outputs 1 to 8. The next board drives the 9 - segment chinese numerical display that I designed myself by simplifying a set of chinese numbers as much as possible, which counts from 1 to 8 in chinese.

Designing the segmented display	A table illustrating the correct order of marks for writing chinese numbers. From 'Tecknens Rike' (China: Empire of Living Symbols) (1989), Cecilia Lindqvist, Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag

ANGRY BIRD TIGER (with Savvas Papasavva and Craig Kao)

COURGETTE WATERFALL

'BIG' WRITING MACHINE

Writes the character 'big' mechanically, powered manually.

NOSE LEGS