Photo of the Day

A new photo from the Powerhouse Museum every day

The 80s are back

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I’m excited about my first blog post. As the museum’s industrial designer I have been realising John Hirsch’s dream of a 1m³ interactive Rubik’s Cube replica for the upcoming 80’s exhibition. He’s our Interactives Department Electronics Engineer, something of a McGyver.

It’s a touch sensitive cube with colours you could drag across the surface, all made possible by new sensing technology we developed and coloured light projected by LED’s from behind plastic sheets.

I started with CAD concepts of a metal light box of laser cut parts welded with the precision necessary to fit the many layers of parts still to come.

Photo collage and post by Krister Gustafsson, Industrial Designer
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About Photo of the Day

The Powerhouse Museum's Photo of the Day blog features a new image each day, chosen from the Powerhouse Photo Library.

The majority of these images have been taken by Museum photographers for a variety of purposes such as for exhibitions, of objects in our collection, events, behind-the-scenes and location shots. We also feature many images taken by our Flickr community and from our visitors. We hope you enjoy the photographs and stories.

The licensing of each image varies however we are trying to release as many as possible under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.1 license.

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