TechnoFrolics provides both custom and standard versions of the Kinetic Iron Dust exhibits for purchase and rental.

This section provides general pricing information and a technical product description.

Please contact TechnoFrolics for any information not covered here, including our rental pricing.
   
  General pricing information
   
  TechnoFrolics offers a range of Kinetic Iron Dust configurations, services, sales and rental options, with examples including:
  • Abstract artwork with stock choreography, electronics only, with the case
    built by the client
  • Custom logo and choreography with case, lighting, music system, and
    shipping crate
  • Visitor-interactive versions
  • Outdoor vs. indoor units
  • Rental and lease-towards-puchase agreements

Additional Kinetic Iron Dust pricing factors include quantities ordered, display size, lighting, commercial versus educational application, and the like.

Sale pricing in single quantities begins at $25,000 for the electronic internals of our standard size abstract artwork with 4 stock song selection buttons. Rental pricing begins at $2500 per show (plus shipping and a staff setup person).

To receive specific pricing and technical details applicable to your needs, please call or email TechnoFrolics.
   
 
Technical product description
   
  The exhibit's visible grid of cactus-like objects is made up of permanent magnets covered with very fine iron powder the consistency of flour. The fur-like strands that form are the result of millions of tiny iron dust particles lining up along the magnetic field lines.

The exhibit's motions result from modulating this permanent magnetic field with a matrix of powerful computer controlled electromagnets. These electromagnets are made by winding a coil of copper wire around an iron-based core and running variable electric current through the coil.

The existing dances and silent dramas are hand-choreographed by the artist using a real-time choreography computer language. It takes the artist approximately 40 hours of choreography to create a 1 minute dance to music.

In interactive versions of the exhibit a sensor pad device projects a high-frequency, low voltage and very safe, electric field, and registers changes in this field as users move their hands above the pad. There are multiple sensors in the pad, each of which controls the electric current in one electromagnet. The pad detects both x-y (left-right) and z (height) position of a user's hand(s). (The electrical parameter that is altered by hand position and detected by the sensor pad is the ‘capacitance’.)