Crafting Material Interfaces

Assignments

Soft Robotics Presentation

Jason Wee and Oz Agar PDF of Presentation Links: Japanese Soft Robotics Hand and Sushi

Giving You The Finger, or How to Make a Homemade Small-Footprint Jamming Device (using Fluids instead of Air)

Having done research on soft robotics actuated by air, I wanted to create a simple device that will allow me to test and play with jamming with various fluid instead of air. I was  inspired by the Japanese soft robotics hand that we showed last week. The voiceover and subtitles explains how this works, where [...]

Crouching Beaver Hidden Institute

Overview I wanted to experiment with the thermochromatic ink that Leah showed us last week.  Just a reminder: thermo  = heat and chroma = colour.  It is an ink that changes its behavior when the temperature rises over a certain base level.  For example:                       [...]

Wall Sense

Link to my presentation: WallSense