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Gia Marino & Fiona Chiu Project Objectives To create a tactile experience that captures the nuance of human touch through gesture and movement. The wearable bracelet presents a novel approach to appreciating the complexities of human interaction and enhances our ability to communicate and connect with one another on a deeper level. Reflection on the
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final mold design gesture detection We first found the thresholds for the four directions (left, right, forward, back) through trial and error and created conditions in the main loop to check for changes in the x, y, and z values that crossed these thresholds. We took inspiration for the algorithm from this paper: https://www.irjmets.com/uploadedfiles/paper/volume3/issue_2_february_2021/6052/1628083249.pdf Then,
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End of Week Report We finally got our molds 3D printed so we have casted the silicon into our molds. We still need to test the silicon pieces with an air pump. We have started the circuit for connecting the air pumps and Arduino, so once we know that is working it will be easy
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End of Week Report This week has been mostly testing and fixing our CAD models and trying to get them printed. We realized that our molds needed some slight changes so that they would print properly, it mostly had to do with changing the ports and tubing to fit correctly. We did a lot of
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End of Week Report new mold 1 – full bracelet prototype This is a mold for a full bracelet with the ability to be tied together or clasped? If you fill this whole mold up it should make one full bracelet. Also this has the thinnest tube we have done so far with a .5mm
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Ideas we wanna test the next couple weeks: Beginning of the week plans We want to print 2 different molds this week to test the concepts above. This is a rough first plan before attempting anything. Things we need to figure out in the future End of Week Report For this week we got two
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Refik Anadol: Unsupervised—Machine Hallucinations What would a machine mind dream of after “seeing” the vast collection of The Museum of Modern Art? In other words, if the corpus of images of the MoMA collection had been accomplished by a single artist, what would their dreams look like? STATEMENT OF ARTIST INTENT Unsupervised is a meditation on
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Fashion Bio-Inspired Wearable Robotics for Fashion Technology: SoftVoss This was an exhibit created by Dr. Yin Yu for the 2022 San Diego Design Week. In the video Dr. Yin Yu shares how to design a bird-feather-inspired wearable fashion technology with soft material, highlighting why biomimicry design in soft robotics creates engaging human-computer interaction empowering designers’
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