Hello you.
I am J.travis russett.
You found it. This is my experience in The 2017 Fab Academy. Fab Academy is a globally distributed educational model teaching people to turn code into things. Our leader is Neil Gershenfeld.
Do you know Saverio Silli? You should. Without his patience and dedication, these works do not exist. Thank you, Saverio.
Visit FablabO in Shanghai.
Be the Programmer-Designer-Artist
Think it up and build it
In his book Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication, Neil Gershenfeld asked us to "consider what would happen if the physical world outside computers was as malleable as the digital world inside computers... with technology better reflecting the needs and wishes of its users because it’s been developed by and for its users.". While practicing architecture is in many ways been a journey towards realizing that potential, I am inpsired to take a step back and investigate critical ideas difficult to engage from within the profession. This is my motivation for joining the Fab Academy: to challenge, to learn, to contribute, to go to the uncomfortable extremes, to evolve and open some new doors.
The next sections links to progress reports of my final project, a question of sourcing energy then dishuBot, a robot for painting Chinese water calligraphy. The subsequent sections delve into exercises I completed while learning methods of digital prototyping, electronics design and fabrication, and coding, the way of the Fab Lab.
Or maybe you would like to learn something about me. Biography.If you would like to write me russett at bestia.xyz you can do that.
most recent update : 28 June 2017
My ambition is to make an energy harvesting system using biological photovoltaics as an exhibition work to bring attention to clean possibilites for sourcing energy and the fact that we need [wildness] nature more than it needs humans.
- Design, Materials and Methods
- Price breakdown
- Precedents
- Grow Module : The science
- Grow Module : Design and fabrication
- Grow Monitors : What watches the watchers?
- Discussion
- History: Stuff I wrote previously
The following are links to investigations done throughout the cycle directly related to the development of this final work.
most recent update : 11 June 2017
dìshūBot, a water calligraphy device inspired by the modern Chinese custom of painting calligraphy on public sidewalks with a water brush, a “practice [that] corresponds to both a socializing need and an individual search for self accomplishment or improvement” (Francois Chastanet). Fabricated at FablabO in Shanghai, dìshūBot is a composition of 3D printed and laser cut materials and employs a combination of stepper motors, a pump, Arduino and a custom G-code transcoder to endlessly trace passages composed of «hanzi» that slowly disappear as water evaporate. This is a work in progress. Following are links directly to specific sections of ongoing development:
- Research : Machine precedent; Dishu
- Fabricating a Gestalt Stage
- dishuBot: Prototyping the infinity axis.
- dishuBot: Prototyping the variable axis.
- dishuBot: Prototyping the instrument.
- Walking up some Mega RAMPS (and falling down).
- About the day the Arduino Uno CNC Shield arrived in the mail...
- Custom g-code writer, why and how.
- Principles & practices, project management.
- Computer-aided design.
- Computer-controlled cutting.
- Kerf : what is it? why is it? why care?
- Darth Cthulhu : Tempting the dark side with lasers.
- bēstia: A brief vinyl cutting trip
- A young Grasshopper gets its wings: Parametric modeling
- wildCardboard : Rabid! Prototyping
- BioElectronics testing module
- Electronics production.
- Printed circuit board... with a tabletop CNC mill?
- Flow : Stuffing electronic components
- Programming a programmer : Proto-chicken or proto-egg?
- Three dimensional scanning & printing.
- Performance testing MakerBot Replicator II
- Mathematica model..?
- Three dimensional scanning wildCardboard
- Electronics design.
- Computer-controlled machining.
- Unravel : Mysteries, preparing a design.
- Testing constraint : machining materiality
- Bioelectrochemistry : grow module frame
- Embedded programming.
- Datasheet : Atmel ATtiny24/44/84
- Arduino IDE
- Echo : Programming.C
- Breathing light : An arduino experiment
- Machine design. plus 2 sections
- Research : Machine precedent; Dishu
- Fabricating a Gestalt Stage
- dishuBot: Prototyping the infinity axis.
- dishuBot: Prototyping the variable axis.
- dishuBot: Prototyping the instrument.
- Custom g-code writer, why and how.
- Output Devices.
- Molding and Casting.
- Star puzzle : Child's play?
- ...Oomoo...
- Liquid plastic : Smooth-Cast 300 Series
- Bioelectrochemical testing pod (abandoned)
- Input Devices.
- Composites.
- Composites : Modular growth, testing
- Making a four piece mold because my time is unlimited.
- Hessian/ burlap/ crocus composite sandwiched between four pieces of foam.
- Networking and Communications.
- Interface and Application Programming.
- Applications and Implications.
- Invention, Intellectual Property and Business Models.
- Project Development.
- Final work
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