Robotic and Kinetic Media

Automatica

By far the most intriguing device ever.

Engineers from Standord University created a live band but with robots that are programmed to play musical instruments such as the piano, drums ans turn table. Their aim was to realise an A.I. musical future with this project. Best part, they only took a month. I was literally blown away, given the short Read more →

For weeks, I’d been thinking that my code was wrong hence I cant move more than 2 motor at the same time or it will corrupt the system….

And in the end, it wasnt my code, as I was using PCA9685 which is a servo driver which I bought online and thought that I could control 16 motors at the same Read more →

The construction of this set up took almost a day to complete. It was extremely tedious and I used close to 200 cable ties and 55 springs. The above is just the first plate with 2 springs and 3 cable ties.

The first 5 plates were pretty easy but when it goes above 5, the set up starts to Read more →

The Human + Series proved to be an exhibition that questions the inclusiveness of interactivity by which a prosthetic is involved in one way or another. The deeper insight to this, however, would be the social and ethical issues that would arise from modifications introduced to the human body. Will this aid us in becoming more efficient with our daily Read more →

Inspiration  +  concept

Growing up, I used to have really oily skin — a common problem in hot and humid Singapore. People with oily skin will be familiar with facial oil blotting papers to remove excess oil and sebum. Simply pull one out and gently wipe your face. The blotting paper would turn darker when it comes into contact with facial oil.

These Read more →

Quick update for the four spring set up

The four spring set up looks decent with the first layer done but it is unable to be build higher than one level as there is some problems with attaching more plates on it due to the design (I forgot to add a hole for one part of the spring). I did Read more →

After the Study model of the last part, where I stopped at the lever system and realize that it is not as strong as it should be, my improved method is to use 2 servo to do the same action, After a long time trying, I found out that the overall height of the servo will still be as Read more →

I aim to explain the concepts of perception of movement with many examples so that everyone in class can get what I am talking about. From my research, I realised that it is extremely hard to comprehend many concepts. One of the papers I have an extremely hard time reading is the reading by Prof Markus who was having some Read more →

What is Biological Inspired robots? First lets break the words into pieces. Biology – The natural science of studying Life and Living Organism. Robots – A machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. we could see that the Robotic studies has a lot to learn from the Biological side as most of the nature elements are refined through the years Read more →

Inspiration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9FuPdl3xCE

Inspired by the robotic arm, we wanted to give it a twist.

Concept

Two robotic rock-paper-scissors hands battling it out

Initial Sketch

How it works

Construction requires a flexible yet durable material – Cardboard A hand consists of two motors (M1 & M2) 1 thumb (T) & 4 fingers (F1 Read more →