Day 6: (Mon Feb 3, Week 4) Art, Design, and Technology

Notes for 2025-02-03.

New Assignments

New assignment due Wednesday: please prepare a brief pitch for a specific project you’d like to develop, either refining one of your previous ideas or choosing a new one. Please include at least one detailed sketch showing a visual representation and be prepared to explain your idea. Please post your sketches as images or slides in Exercise 6 Shared Folder.

Agenda

  1. Review Exercise: Infusing Art with Technology, Exercise 5 Shared Folder.

  2. Discussion.

  3. Mid-class break.

  4. Review of your silicone object sketches.

  5. SolidWorks mold design tutorial and workshop.

Exercise 5 Bibliography

    1. Mothes, “Tropical Birds Burst to Life in the Intricate Paper Cutouts of ‘The Parrot Project,’” Colossal. Accessed: Feb. 03, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/12/paper-ark-parrot-project/

    1. Rong and J. Shi, “Ecomorphs | Interactive Architecture Lab.” Accessed: Feb. 03, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.interactivearchitecture.org/lab-projects/ecomorphs

    1. Wang and H. Zhang, “Paralull | Interactive Architecture Lab.” Accessed: Feb. 03, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.interactivearchitecture.org/lab-projects/paralull

    1. Burns and B. Samanta, “Design and implementation of an interactive animatronic for guest response analysis,” in SoutheastCon 2015, Apr. 2015, pp. 1–2. doi: 10.1109/SECON.2015.7132899.

    1. Guo, C. Xiang, T. Helps, M. Taghavi, and J. Rossiter, “Electroactive textile actuators for wearable and soft robots,” in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Apr. 2018, pp. 339–343. doi: 10.1109/ROBOSOFT.2018.8404942.

    1. Wang and B. Lo, “A Soft Inflatable Elbow-Assistive Robot for Children with Cerebral Palsy,” in 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN), Jul. 2021, pp. 1–4. doi: 10.1109/BSN51625.2021.9507023.

  • “Rouen Cathedral (Monet series),” Wikipedia. Jan. 04, 2025. Accessed: Feb. 03, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rouen_Cathedral_(Monet_series)&oldid=1267289719

    1. Jørgensen and M. B. Christiansen, “The Sounds of Softness. Designing Sound for Human-Soft Robot Interaction,” Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 8, 2021, Accessed: Jan. 25, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.674121

    1. Rus and M. T. Tolley, “Design, fabrication and control of origami robots,” Nat Rev Mater, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 101–112, Jun. 2018, doi: 10.1038/s41578-018-0009-8.

      1. van den Berg, R. B. N. Scharff, Z. Rusák, and J. Wu, “OpenFish: Biomimetic design of a soft robotic fish for high speed locomotion,” HardwareX, vol. 12, p. e00320, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e00320.

    1. Won et al., “Transparent Soft Actuators/Sensors and Camouflage Skins for Imperceptible Soft Robotics,” Advanced Materials, vol. 33, no. 19, p. 2002397, 2021, doi: 10.1002/adma.202002397.

    1. Yim, C. Sung, S. Miyashita, D. Rus, and S. Kim, “Animatronic soft robots by additive folding,” The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 611–628, May 2018, doi: 10.1177/0278364918772023.

    1. Zadan et al., “Liquid Crystal Elastomer with Integrated Soft Thermoelectrics for Shape Memory Actuation and Energy Harvesting,” Advanced Materials, vol. 34, no. 23, p. 2200857, 2022, doi: 10.1002/adma.202200857.

  • Catalyst Robot Lab, Kronos II - Animatronic Dragon - Person Tracking, (Apr. 06, 2015). Accessed: Feb. 03, 2025. [Online Video]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT76Ke8eC-I

    1. Mordvintsev, E. Niklasson, and E. Randazzo, “Particle Lenia and the energy-based formulation.” Accessed: Feb. 03, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://google-research.github.io/self-organising-systems/particle-lenia/

  • “A Wild Life for Wildlife,” Gillie and Marc®. Accessed: Feb. 03, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://gillieandmarc.com/blogs/find-our-art/a-wild-life-for-wildlife

  • “The Paper Ark | Nayan and Venus,” My Site. Accessed: Feb. 03, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.thepaperark.com

  • “Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.” Accessed: Feb. 03, 2025. [Online]. Available: http://www.tba21.org/