{"id":2030,"date":"2022-12-06T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2022-12-05T22:26:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T03:26:42","slug":"marimonda-final-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/marimonda\/12\/06\/marimonda-final-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Marimonda &#8211; Final Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Breaking up with a robot after an intimate relationship defined by a lack of dancing.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Rompecorazones (<\/strong>Heartbreaker<strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rompecorazones (Heartbreaker) - Angelica Bonilla Fominaya\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pIh6VeSF5SY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p>In this video (in case you didn&#8217;t watch it), I am wearing a traditional Colombian Cumbia dress as I dramatically break up with a robot.<\/p>\r\n<p>This project, at it&#8217;s core, is a vent piece that contextualizes my failure in attempting to have a robot dance with me.<\/p>\r\n<p>My<a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/marimonda\/11\/08\/marimonda-personintime-update\/\"> Person in Time<\/a> project, at is core, was creating a robotic interaction that would follow me as I moved or danced with it. But I wasn&#8217;t able to get quite there. I spent roughly 2 months continuously debugging a UR5 Cobot (Collaborative Robot), as I attempted to have it follow my face in real time.\u00a0 Using Handsfree.js, python and a couple of dozen cups of coffee, I was able to partially achieve this daunting task.<\/p>\r\n<p>Without getting too much into the technical implementation of my robotic interactions, I had a lot of issues wrapping my head around different SDK&#8217;s and networking protocols for communicating with the robot with my computer. It&#8217;s not easy to make code for the robot to move, but it&#8217;s even harder to do so remotely from your computer. So I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how these pieces went together. I eventually hacked it, but I realized that to get to a step where the robot would be able to move smoothly with me, would take a lot more time and effort than I had. At this point I had grown bitter with the robot, verbally abusing it every time I could. Because I knew it would never be good enough to properly dance with me at this rate.<\/p>\r\n<p>Needless to say, this piece as a whole is a testament to the technical failures that I experienced, technical failures that made me consider whether or not I wanted to drop this class at times. This piece was the process of coming to terms with my lack of technical expertise, but it is also a testament to my learning. <\/p>\r\n<p>In terms of the video, I did consider using music\/a background track (specifically of cumbia beats). But the jovial nature of cumbia sounds went against the tone of the video, and I found that my voice alone was appropriate enough for this project. Like any project, I find a billion ways in which my storytelling could be improved. I spent hours trying to figure out how to film myself interacting with the robot, and there are many distinct motions of the robots (as well as bugs) that I didn&#8217;t do justice in this documentation.<\/p>\r\n<p>Special thanks to Oz Ramos, Madeline Gannon, and Golan Levin for helping me get started with the UR5! We developed a special relationship.<\/p>\r\n<p>Special thanks to Neve (and Clayton), Mikey, Em, Ana, Will, Benford and Lauren for saving my butt with the narrative\/filming\/set up of the video!\u00a0 I am not a video person, so I genuinely couldn&#8217;t have made this without everyone who helped me figure these things out.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Breaking up with a robot after an intimate relationship defined by a lack of dancing.\u00a0 Rompecorazones (Heartbreaker) In this video (in case you didn&#8217;t watch it), I am wearing a traditional Colombian Cumbia dress as I dramatically break up with a robot. This project, at it&#8217;s core, is a vent piece that contextualizes my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/marimonda\/12\/06\/marimonda-final-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marimonda &#8211; Final Project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}