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Foxglove Metral and 3 OthersVexx ThompsonSam Hague
Henri Tremblay
This project is a continuation of my Winter Session I project. In that studio, we collaborated with the Perkins School for the Blind and a soft robotics lab at MIT. My project was a gamified climbing wall that uses tactile feedback to help players navigate the wall. Each handhold communicates the location of the next hold in the climb. After the project concluded, the team from the MIT lab was impressed and encouraged by my work and expressed interest in continuing to collaborate with me through OI. After extensive research and brainstorming, I developed an idea that builds upon a technology called LVC. LVC is a method of creating soft robotic components using low-volume cores to form the internal geometry. These cores are made from thin plastic sheets, which allows them to bend flat and slide out of the molded part with minimal force. My innovation is called Ribbon Core. Instead of designing the core as a central spine with multiple fins attached that require meticulous assembly, the core can be 3D printed in a shape that somewhat resembles a square wave. The spacing between each segment of the square wave must be tuned so the layers adhere during printing but can still be peeled apart when needed. The demolding process is particularly interesting. The first fin separates and slips out of the cavity it formed. Then the next fin follows, and then the next, until the structure becomes a straight strip of plastic that can easily slide out of the mold. The core unwraps like a ribbon, hence the name, Ribbon-Core. Because this method is highly automated and easy to manufacture on hobbyist-level machines, and it uses a widely accessible and easy-to-print material, PLA, the system is both scalable and accessible.
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With students and theater staff making use of the shop facilities and not putting things back where they belong, the Nuvu shop is a hectic place. As a result, tools are disorganized, surfaces are cluttered, work is inefficient, and people are fed up. Our goal is to reorganize the shop with new systems to fix these problems. We believe that keeping an organized shop will lead to a cleaner, more efficient workflow. It also promotes shop safety and accountability from the community to maintain organization.
Our project game revolves around a graffiti artist on the rooftops of a modern city. The goal of the game is to get to a billboard on the top of a building and tag it with our the artist's name. You do this by using the game movement jumping, dashing and wall climbing to Traverse the tops Of buildings.The art is inspired by New York City 2000 grunge aesthetic and lots of the art has references to famous graffiti artists and groups. With this project we intend to spread graffiti culture and show how cool graffiti can be.
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