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  Soo 8:16 pm on March 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  6 Paper Automata concepts 

  
  1) Dancer Automata
  Toy dances by user’s clapping sounds
  Emotions: Joy, happy
  Keywords: Electret microphone amplifier, servo

  

  http://papermau.blogspot.com/2012/11/gangnam-style-machine-automata.html

   

  2) Welcoming Robot
  Create a robot that recognizes you, and it welcomes you. When you get home, he will be coming to you and lighting on his eyes to welcome you. He is just like your own pet, but no needs to feed or walk out.
  Keywords: RangeFinder, servo, LEDs, speaker
  Emotions: Comfort, friendless
  Based on “Tea-serving robot”

  

   

  3) Nodding toy
  This toy agrees every single things what you say by nodding his/her head. You can say whatever you want. He/she never disagree with you! Even you get angry, he or she will always there for you and listen whatever you have left to say.
  Emotions: comfort, friendless
  Keywords: LEDs, Electret microphone amplifier

  

   

  4) Blooming flowers in vase
  The flowers in vase notify your facebook, text messages, any notifications on your phone. The flowers bloom as hearing dedicated phone vibration or sound notifications. Each flowers bloom per notification. Therefore, you can get notifications without looking at your small phone screen. The flowers in vase could work as a decoration piece or notification of text messages.
  Keywords: notification, servo, Electret microphone amplifier
  Based on Peek-a-bear

  

   

  5) A everyday valentine flower
  Create a flower if you get closer, it blooms and has nice smells. Also, it changes color each days, so you feel like you have different flower every day.
  Emotions: positive
  Keywords: RangeFinder, LEDs, servo

  

   

  6) Lamp
  Some people change their moods based on lights. There is a lamp it has available to recognize daytime or nighttime based on amount of lights.
  Emotions: Positive
  Keywords: LEDs, light sensor

  

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  Adiel Fernandez 8:14 pm on March 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  6 Concepts for midterm 

   

   

   

   

  Emotion: Hopelessness

  Automata: man lost at see on a boat that moves with the waves. A rangefinder causes the waves to move more as users move away, increasing feeling of desparation.

  

   

  Emotion: Curiosity

  Automata: A mystery box that shakes and moves when touched (using capacitive sensing). Box could possibly be made of stretchy fabric that has objects poking and pushing through it.

  

   

  Emotion: Awe

  Automata: A caveman celebrating fire. When a torch is brought next to the sticks (i.e. a magnet is brought next to the sensor), the fire “ignites”

  

   

  Emotion: Surprise

  Automata: When the user goes to feed a rabbit with a bundle of grass (with RFID sensor in it), a giant alligator snaps shut and eats the rabbit.

  

   

  Emotion: Jealousy

  Automata: Two girls fight over a guy in the middle, pulling him from side to side. Pulling happens according to frequency of pulse from heart rate sensor.

  

   

  Emotion: Fear

  Automata: Creature pulls man deeper into a dark cave when the lights are turned on. Uses a light sensitive resistor.

  

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  carlamarinvial 8:12 pm on March 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  Mid terms concepts 

  These are my sketches and a couple of look and feel prototypes. I am aiming tu use sound and distance sensors and want also to play with “glow in the dark” idea.

  

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  danielagill 8:11 pm on March 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  Midterm ideas / Youmna & Daniela 

  

   

  

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  ZX 8:04 pm on March 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  Midterm x 6 

  

  

  

  

  

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  SLee 8:03 pm on March 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  Paper Automata + Emotion Concepts 

     

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  Siri 8:01 pm on March 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  04/00 Midterm: Six Ideas 

  

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  naterudolph 8:01 pm on March 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  Midterm Concepts 

  Here’s a PDF of the concepts.

  MidTermPrez(nateRudolph)

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  Jen Matsumoto 7:56 pm on March 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  Midterm Ideas 

  These are my midterm ideas. They are a little rough and I think could use more time and thinking through the concept and workings of the gears.

  

  Volcano “Surprise”

  

  Clocks “Confusion”

  

  Sewing Machine “Satisfaction”

  
  

  

  Music Box “Pleasant”

  

  Street Dancers “Joy”

  

  Energy Bike “Inspriation”

  
  

  1. Exercise bike for power: Approach the bike and watch as the wheels moving also power a “light” that only appears when the bike is moving. (Like weight of bureaucracy)
  2. Street Dancers: Give the street dancers “money” and watch them perform.
  3. Music Box: Approach the music box and watch the dancer spin.
  4. Sewing Machine: Approach the sewing machine and see the needle move up and down and sew on its own.
  5. Crazy Clocks: Two clocks moving forward and backward so you never know what time it is.

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  JeannetteSubero 7:45 pm on March 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  Wireless toys – Midterm Ideas 

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  Chy 7:43 pm on March 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  Automataaaaaaaaaaaaa 

  

  KEY:

  1  2

  3  4

  I mainly focusing on volumetric movement of the automata.

  1 – Worm hole   = since wave automata that produce wave motion in  cylindrical shape

  2 – Mask = Towers that lift mask open/close

  3 – walker = I want to do this boxing robot toy for final, but i still have  no idea how to move with two legs so this project could be a good practice for final.

  4 – Dynamic contour

  

  Last simester, I did this project that related to motion that adjust to the environment, and I want to explore different alternate for this change for survival by made this automata that realign it self to fix changing world.

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  Soo 6:03 pm on March 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  Gangnam Style Machine! LOL
  http://papermau.blogspot.com/2012/11/gangnam-style-machine-automata.html

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  ZX 2:19 am on March 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  Free Writing About the Third One 

  easy:

  I think every aspect of this one is relatively easy.

  hard:

  none

  inspired or not by others:

  Yes. Jeannette’s athlete looked surprisingly cute. I thought it would be boring when I was looking at the template on the book. And all the enthusiastic alterations were really cool.

  another thing:

  USB Battery Pack works really responsive, it has no problem with Arduino code and hardware but you have to press the restart button if the motor stops for more than, in my case, 6 seconds. So I guess it’s not proper to use if the toy is designed to be fully turned off when the user is not near it. Maybe we could use a forever lit LED to keep the circuit running but it’s kind of a waste.

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  ZX 2:15 am on March 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  Servo&UltrasonicRangerfinder&ArduinoMicro&BatteryPack 

  

  The closer you are, the faster it rolls!

   

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  yaoukar 10:22 pm on March 13, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  Bureaucratie Paper Automata 

  Paper Automata is using a continuous servo motor and a ultra sonic range finder to control the movement of the toy.

  When the user comes close to the toy, the movement stops. When the users goes far from the toy, the movement goes faster.

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  normanorma 7:29 pm on March 13, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  Midterm Sketch-up! 

   

  The following post will compile six sketch of possible projects to work on in our Wireless Toys class. From our instruction Yury’s guidelines: based on the environment, the automata should illicit an emotional response from a user/spectator. This should be an explicit emotion such as: joy,curiosity, compassion, wonderment, hate, love, inspiration.

   1. Crystal Caven 

  My first concept is inspired by Studio Ghibli, where Sophie moves into the depth of Plato’s Cave. There are glistering treasures and objects on the walls of the cave. As the camera moves along with the character, the objects shines and reflects lights to create such a magical spectrum. This sketch is meant to present a sense of wonderment. Through the creation of original object and design based on crystals, perhaps the color of the lights could be inflicted by the user, to give them a sense of wonder.

  

   

  My Sketch:  Crystal Lights Fixture – Colors changes based on interaction

  

   2. Dearly Deer 

  Much like the first idea, this is a deer character that would glister in lights when you approach it. I imagine this to be built out of plexiglass to have a transparent effect. It would also be inspired to be a potential light or furniture piece for my living room.

  

   3. Jellyfish/Jellycats

  I designed these characters during Bootcamp as a processing game. The objective of this game is to catch Jellycats with a red net. I imagine these to be mobile characters that could move around, but if you get too close, they get scared (they are quite shy), so they would move a feet away. There could be more then one at the same time. Imagine this being a cat toy!

  

  

  4. Flying Pig

  I imagine this design to be hung up on a hanging mobile that have a fixed track in order to create movement.

  

  

  5. Drawing Robot

  This is a drawing tool robot that would draw or scribble. The robot have wheels so it may move around the table.

  

  6. Luring Turtles/ or an Animal

  Using a carrot, or a lure, with a magnetic pull, once the animal detects this sensor, it would move faster. The food is a lure to motivate their movement to work faster!

  

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  danielagill 9:22 pm on March 9, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  Free Writing 

  1-What did you find surprising difficult in the Embedded Arduino Paper Automata project?

  Even though I’ve had some practice with building paper toys with the last two projects, this one in particular was very hard. The construction of the automata, the Weight of Bureaucracy, was very challenging. The pieces were very small and even though in the book everything is explained very well still there’s a lot of logic and attention that needs to be applied in order for the automata to work well in the end. Also, even though all the pieces one need to construct it are there in the book, I found helpful to be creative and change one or two pieces in order to make it function. All of this helps a lot for understanding the mechanics and system that goes behind it.

  As for the technical part with the micro Arduino, servo motor, Ultrasonic range finder and the battery it took more time than before to make it all work. The reading of the micro Arduino was inconstant. My UBS port for some reason kept loosing it after a while. I had some technical issues with this and it took patience and trying repeatedly to make it work. It seemed to confuse it with Leonardo Arduino. It was frustrating and still is.

  Also making the structure to present everything neatly and to hide the board, motors, cables, battery, etc was challenging too. The solution was to have a mini box underneath a platform where the model and a mini box with the servo hidden is next to it.

  And last but not least the code was challenging too for me because it is somewhat new to me. Figuring out the values and how the paper automata responded to the movement of the servo was hard.

  2-What did you find surprisingly easy?

  The wiring, making the circuits since I am now familiar with these two the range finder and servo motor. Also getting the power from the battery.

  3- Did you get inspired with any derivative work from doing this project?

  Overall these last three projects have been very inspiring and instructive. A good practice in construction with paper. I’ve been thinking about how to make them with a collage of materials and embedding different electronics. I think also the knowledge and practice of understanding the mechanics behind these paper automatas is helpful for a lot of things in design in general. Production of artifacts and of course physical computing. And also makes you aware of the huge potential paper has.

  

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  Soo 8:26 pm on March 9, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  Control it will an Arduino Mini, Servo, Ultrasonic Rangefinder, and Battery Power 

  My third paper automata assignment was “Weight of Bureaucracy” from book, Models that Move. I was super fun automata, but it took more than 6 hours to actual making the paper automata. The challenge part was the servo has to turn only one way, otherwise the paper automata is broke. So, I had to carefully observe ultrasonic rangefinder values and calculate servo position for  the value in code. Using an Arduino Mini and an battery power were simple and easy.

  Please watch video at vimeo: https://vimeo.com/61422425

  

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