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Background Research – Vivek Anand

Background Research PHYSICAL HOME AUTOMATION INTERFACE Overview The physical home automation interface is a miniature model of a smart home. The main goal of the Physical Home Automation…

Background Research: Oliver Terrell – Waves by Daniel Palacios

Background Context This piece is called Waves by Daniel Palacios and was created in 2006. It was commissioned by Nike, Adidas, London Science Museum, Centra Andaluz de Arte,…

Wayne-Background Research

El Toro Grande: Self-Driving Car Using Machine Learning Background Context The author was an American high schooler who attended the International Autonomous Robot Racing Challenge in Waterloo, Canada….

Hengrui (Henry) Zhang – Background Research

Arduino CNC machine Background Context The author of this project is a CNC machinist. A CNC machine is a computer numerical controlled mill that can do machining works…

Ronitb – Background Research

Arduino Game Controller Ronit Banerjee Video The Rationale & Goals The creator of the arduino game controller is a mechanical engineer and made it as part of his…

Demo 2 – An Unfortunate Little Robot

Summary When you plug this little robot in, all he wants to do is unplug himself and go back to sleep. Unfortunately for him, the cable is so…

jrlew – Background Research

Kinetic Rain Context In 2012, Changi Airport Group in Singapore commissioned the company ART+COM to build a sculpture that could be displayed in their newly renovated terminal. They…

Demo 2: Pointless Piggy Bank

Description This piggy bank doubles as a fun desk toy doubles that will cheer most anyone up. Inspired by pointless robots, the piggy bank repeatedly hits itself until…

Demo 2: Ele-thump

Summary: Ele-thump is a lasercut pratfall device which combines the principles of stored spring energy and changing its mass distribution in order to cause itself to fall over…

Demo 2: Oliver Terrell – Slightly Confused Trebuchet

This pratfall device was designed to be a comedy piece inspired by medieval warfare. It is structured like a trebuchet (catapult-like device) but instead of the motor attaching…