Where will you say you were when, at 10:40 EST, humanity first landed a probe...
Can you fathom what it must feel like to be one of the astronomers who, 45 years ago, discovered a comet, and is here today watching as we as a species are rendezvousing with that comet, gently...
View ArticleComputer Controlled Variable Aperture Soap Film Iris – First Bubbles!
I’m fascinated with ephemeral phenomena, and the most recent manifestation of this has led me to invent some elaborate technical apparatus to make photographs of huge bubbles doing interesting...
View ArticleGordon Kirkwood selected as Artist in Residence at Autodesk’s Pier-9 Dream-lab.
“Giddy” cannot begin to describe my feelings upon learning, on Thanksgiving, that I have been selected to be an Artist In Residence at Autodesk’s Pier-9 dream-lab in San-Francisco. The concentration...
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Controlling Lightning Morphology around and within the Same Flower during...
Artocarpus Altilis – the breadfruit tree’s leaf. test shot – with a DSLR – taken just prior to the large format analog film exposure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadfruit I’ve been home for but a...
View ArticleGordon Kirkwood Performs at Silicon Valley NewSpace Conference Black Tie Gala...
The Space Frontier Foundation’s annual conference is one of the most important commercial space conferences in the nation, and will be held July 16-18 in Silicon Valley. Attended by the elite and...
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CNC Bubble Iris Article Released
Photo of the CNC Bubble Iris taken at Autodesk’s Pier-9 facility by Nathan Hurst, Editor at Make Magazine. It is a real pleasure to see Make Magazine, Hackaday, and Adafruit #ArtTuesday all re-blog...
View ArticleProtected: Make your own giant Kirkwood Bubble Iris!
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“Enabling Biomimetic Morphing UAVS” paper published in Twenty-Second...
I’m pleased to release a new publication in the Twenty-Second International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM22) entitled “Enabling Biomimetic Morphing UAVs” with colleagues at SRI, the...
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US Patent #10,710,247 Issued to Kirkwood et al for new Robotic “Conical Iris...
Overview drawing of the Kirkwoood Conical Iris Gripper I was issued US Patent number 10,710,247 on July 14th 2020 for a new type of robotic gripper device uniquely able to grasp difficult-to-grasp...
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Rapid prototyping of Composite Aerospace Parts with 3d printed molds
I needed a lightweight, impact resistant, streamlined fairing for a flying robot. I could 3d print a part with the right shape, but 3d printed materials would either be too weak, or too heavy....
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