Study archive - Weeks 9 & 10
Mechanical design
This week task was part of a two-week group project (weeks 9 and 10) to design and build a machine using gestalt framework (gestalt nodes and pygestalt SW). This documentation thus appears on both weeks 9 and 10 on my page. More comprehensive group project documentation is here.
For details in certain steps (stages construction, coding) see documentation by Juha and Antti.
We decided to build a guitar robot who plays guitar. My main contributions were:
The video (22 MB) can be downloaded from my google drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6jtgIKAJ0-AeVlSMXRjdFZhekU
This video can be optimally viewed with HD. A more compressed version (7 MB) done by Antti is posted on the group page (compressed video).
Learning resources
- Getting Started With Gestalt Nodes
- The description of gestalt machines here.
- Projects documentations at Fablab Amsterdam 2015 and Fablab Lisbon 2015.
Summary of Tools used
Software
Inkscape - for designing the guitar stand
Microsoft Power Point - for making presentation and video slides
Movie Maker - for making and compressing the video in .mp4
Python - for writing code for the machine
Ubuntu Linux - the gestalt SW package works best in Linux
Pygestalt - SW package for gestalt nodes in python