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This week's assignment was to propose a final project that integrates the range of units covered, answering questions like "what will it do?", "what materials and components will be required?", "what processes will be used?", etc.
For my final project I would like to make series of interactive sculptures containing sensors that will activate the movement of the motors. On the examples below you can see a gif animation which is an inspiration for my sculptures.
The videos are showing my miniature tests prototyping the sensor and movement.
The girl will be reading the book with a regular eye movement from left to right until she gets disrupted by noise (microphone input) and her eyes will go up to look where the noise is coming from.
The dog will be reacting to touch (capacitive sensor) and friendly move its tail.
The inspiration for the project are AUTOMATA The types of movement I would like to do are described on
Where will they come from? How much will it cost?
I will need:
- plywood 18mm (to cuto out the shapes and engrave the drawings)
- plywood 3 mm for the movable elements
- DC motor
- stepper motor
- capacitive sensor
- power supply
- gears - made from acrylic on a laser?
- axels
- transparent acrylic to cover the mechanism
- vinyl - to add detail and color / mask areas for paint
- spray paint
- parts of the sculpture - relief CNC in plywood
- movable parts should be lighter so thin ply or mdf
- CNC shopbot + engraving
- Lasercutting
- Electronics design and making
- Programming
- Interface design
- Vinylcutting
- Designing the sculptures
- Designing the movement
- Electronics design and making
- Programming
- Interface design
- Making a video
- Documenting
| TASK | 24/05-31/05 | 31/05-07/06 | 07/05-14/06 | 14/06-21/06 | 21/06-28/06 | 28/06-05/07 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sketching the movement in cardboard | X | |||||
| developing final drawings | X | |||||
| producing sculptures | X | |||||
| developing electronics and programming | X | |||||
| develop and test power, wire, input and output | X | X | ||||
| make additional designs to expand the range of sculptures | X | X | ||||
| work on a video | X | X | ||||
| improvements after feedback from Instructor/Guru and Central Evaluation | X | X | ||||
| document the process during development and final result | X | X | X | X | X | X |
I woudl like to fully complete at least one of the sculptures working perfectly and being able to be exhibited in Chile at FAB13