There are two things that I would like to look into. First, I would like to look into learning origami or new techniques like bubble casting to create a soft robot. From there, the idea of creating an interactive ecosystem is extremely interesting. Combining these two directions would be extremely fun! I think that the actuation can be some sort of connection to organisms evolving. There would be sensors based on light and sound. I would like to have a commentary about how much we use technology to “document” our lives.
https://news.mit.edu/2015/can-led-robot-garden-make-coding-more-accessible-0218
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