Monday, April 16, 2007
In this step of our experiments we combined the umbrella mechanism and our Frie Otto arm. We wanted to have the umbrella release the otto piece like an arm would release a hand. The Otto arm then would rotate in its six directions which would act as the hand in our mechanism. The movement of the arm in the six directions would run based on the processing pattern we assigned through the micro-controller which would be activated by the sensor attached to the controller. Our system would interact with the surrounding enviroment based on the sensor indication. We also attempted to add a fabric across two of the umbrella pieces and see how the fabric would deform when the flexanol was activated. This did not create results we were anticipating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR1lPxslwlQ
# posted by Jose Cruz : 5:41 PM
