Raspall - Case Studies

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VirtualReal

1. Fab-Lab

Neil Gershenfeld

2. Ponoko

David Ten Have

and Derek Elley

3. High-Low Tech

Leah Buechley

6. HandScape

Jay Lee

7. I/O Brush

Kimiko Ryokai

8. Siftables

David Merrill and

Jeevan Kalanithi

5. Self Assembly

Skylar Tibbits9. Sixth Sense

Pranav Mistry

12. Invisible Maze

Jeppe Hein

10. BMW work-

shop

BMW Services

15. VR Training

Systems

13. Medical

Training with

Haptic Systems

14. Construction

Training with

Haptic Systems

11. F35 Helmet

Mounted Display

Northrop Grum-

man

DigitalFabricatio

n

(DF)

TangibilizationofBits

SelfReplicatingM

achines

DigitalizationofM

atter

TangibleUserInterfaces

(TUI)

AugmentedReality

(AR)

AugmentedVirtu

ality

(AV)

VirtualReality

(VR)

4. Factum Arte

Adam Lowe

Craft, Augmented Reality

and Tangible Interfaces.

Current Practices

and Emerging Opportunities


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Current Practices


Gershenfeld on Personal Fabrication

Sennett on Craftsmanship

The rapid development of digital technologies

and cybernetic system are bridging the gap between

real and virtual and therefore creating a seamless con-

tinuum in which both worlds overlap each other. New

human-computer interfaces allows visualizations and

manipulations of complex data and are opening new

opportunities to rethink ways in which we create the

physical world.

Tangible User Interfaces, which explores the

manipulation data by means of physical objects, and

augmented reality, which allows for an overlaying digi-

tal information into physical space, can have strong

implications on traditional modes of production and

craft. The apparent contradiction between the deter-

minacy of digital tools and the unpredictable nature of

materials and craftsmanship force us to explore ques-

tions such as: Can digital technologies deal with the

constrains of natural materials and hand-labor?

This research explores modes in which digital

technologies are starting to look at traditional modes

of operating with physical material, i.e. craftsmanship.

Eight categories that spans from full reality to

full virtuality provide a spectrum in which the differentcase studies are located.

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Current Practices


Fab-Lab Network

Image of the FabLab Amsterdam.

http:/cba.m

it.edu/

Digital Fabrication provides a smooth connec-

tion between digital forms and material reality.

Digitalization of Matterlooks at ways in whichcraftsmen can introduce electronic intelligence into

their traditional methods.

As a counterpart, Tangibilization of Bits im-

plies a strategy for exploring craftsmanship in its rela-

tionship to digital information in its binary nature.

Self-Assembling Machines merge together

information and matter by embedding a computationallogic to matter itself, which allows intelligent matter to

assemble into machines (and eventually self-replicat-

ing machines).

Tangible User interface, probably the most ap-

plicable eld for the production of crafts, focuses on

manipulating information by the use of physical ob-

jects. In this way, artists and craftsmen amplify their

tools with sensors and actuators.

Augmented Reality, on the other hand, over-

lays information, unperceptible with our normal sens-

es, by overlaying perceptions (primary vision) with re-

ality.

At the digital end of the spectrum, Augmented

Virtuality and Virtual Reality can provide valuable

tools for training craftsmen.

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Fab-Lab Network

Image of the FabLab Amsterdam.

http:/cba.m

it.e

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Current Practices


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Project Name: Fab Lab

Project Credits: Neil Gershenfeld. Center for Bits and

Atoms. MIT.

Project Brief Description:

A Fab Lab (fabrication laboratory) is a small-scale

workshop offering personal digital fabrication. A Fab

Lab is generally equipped with an array of exible

computer controlled tools that cover several different

length scales and various materials, with the aim to

make almost anything. This includes technology-

enabled products generally perceived as limited to

mass production. While Fab Labs have yet to compete

with mass production and its associated economies of

scale in fabricating widely distributed products, they

have already shown the potential to empower indi-

viduals to create smart devices for themselves. These

devices can be tailored to local or personal needs in

ways that are not practical or economical using mass

production.

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Panoko Platform connecting buyers,

suppliers, designers and fabricators

panoko webpage




Current Practices


02.

Project Name: Ponoko

Project Credits: Ponoko was founded by David Ten

Have and Derek Elley in 2007


Ponoko is an online service for manufacturing, is one of

the rst manufacturers that uses distributed manufac-

turing and on-demand manufacturing. Ponoko builds

on the success of the information age, and applies it to

digital fabrication. Customers who have digital designs

can contract with Ponoko, and sell their objects either

via the Ponoko site, or their own retail outlets. Ponoko

takes orders, and has it cut at the time of purchase

by laser cutters or shop-bots (CNC milling machines).

The manufacturers exist in a distributed network that is

growing around the world, and often the manufacturer

closest to the customer is sourced. While Ponoko uses

desktop manufacturers to produce small-scale prod-

ucts, many believe that such distributed, on-demand

manufacturing could create a major paradigm shift in

manufacturing.

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Lilipad Arduino, and conductive string

Origami Craft with Electronic circuit



Current Practices


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Project Name: High-Low Tech

Project Credits: Leah Buechley. Media Lab. MIT.


The High-Low Tech group integrates high and low

technological materials, processes, and cultures. The

primary aim is to engage diverse audiences in design-

ing and building their own technologies by situating

computation in new cultural and material contexts,

and by developing tools that democratize engineering.

The group believe that the future of technology will

be largely determined by end-users who will design,

build, and hack their own devices, and our goal is to

inspire, shape, support, and study these communities.

To this end, they explore the intersection of computa-

tion, physical materials, manufacturing processes, tra-

ditional crafts, and design.



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Fabrication Machine

Installation



Current Practices


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Project Name: Factum Arte

Project Credits: Adam Lowe and Dwight Perry


Factum Arte latest works reect his interest in media-

tion and surface and are concerned with the intercon-

nected relationship between our understanding of re-

ality and the diverse methods we use to represent it.

Their research is closely related to collaborations with

sociologist Bruno Latour, philosophers Adrian Cussins

and Brian Cantwell-Smith, the historian of science Si-

mon Schaffer, and art historians Joseph Koerner and

Dario Gamboni. Adam Lowe is considered one of the

leading innovators in the eld of digital mediation and

Factum Arte has become his obsession.



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Coded String

Self-Assembly Machine



Current Practices


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Project Name: Self Assembly

Project Credits: Skylar Tibbits


MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits works on self-assembly

-- the idea that instead of building something (a chair, a

skyscraper), we can create materials that build them-

selves, much the way a strand of DNA zips itself to-

gether. Its a big concept at early stages; Tibbits shows

us three in-the-lab projects that hint at what a self-as-

sembling future might look like.



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Design

Prototype



Current Practices


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Project Name: HandScape

Project Credits: Jay Lee. MIT.


HandSCAPE is an orientation-aware digital measur-

ing tape. While a traditional measuring tape only mea-

sures linear distance, the addition of orientation sen-

sors allows a vector measurement of both length and

direction, and the tape can serve as an input device to

computer drawing and modeling applications. Hand-

SCAPE provides a simple interface for generating digi-

tal models of physical objects.The interaction involves

taking measurements of several physical objects and

the distances between them. Once the model has

been generated, the user can manipulate it in the digi-

tal domain. HandSCAPE preserves reliance on human

senses and skills by referring to the familiar process of

measuring objects and space.



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Brush Detail

picking a color



Current Practices


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Project Name: I/O Brush

Project Credits: Kimiko Ryokai


I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, tex-

tures, and movements found in everyday materials by

picking up and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks

like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small vid-

eo camera with lights and touch sensors embedded

inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can

pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed sur-

face. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special

ink they just picked up from their immediate environ-

ment.



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One Siftable

Siftable in a system



Current Practices


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Project Name: Siftables

Project Credits: David Merrill and Jeevan Kalanithi


Siftables aims to enable people to interact with infor-

mation and media in physical, natural ways that ap-

proach interactions with physical objects in our every-

day lives. As an interaction platform, Siftables applies

technology and methodology from wireless sensor

networks to tangible user interfaces. Siftables are

independent, compact devices with sensing, graphi-

cal display, and wireless communication capabilities.

They can be physically manipulated as a group to in-

teract with digital information and media. Siftables can

be used to implement any number of gestural interac-

tion languages and HCI applications.



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prototype components

projection on a newspaper



Current Practices


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Project Name: Sixth Sense

Project Credits: Pranav Mistry


SixthSense is a wearable gestural interface that aug-

ments the physical world around us with digital infor-

mation and lets us use natural hand gestures to inter-

act with that information. It frees information from its

connes by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and

thus making the entire world your computer.

The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket

projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware com-

ponents are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable

device. The projector projects visual information en-

abling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us

to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes

and tracks users hand gestures and physical objectsusing computer-vision based techniques.



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detail of the helmet

Nightvision



Current Practices


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Project Name: Helmet Mounted Display (The case of

F35 ghter)

Project Credits: Northrop Grumman


A head-mounted display or helmet mounted display,

both abbreviated HMD, is a display device, worn on

the head or as part of a helmet, that has a small dis-

play optic in front of one or each eye. A typical HMD

has either one or two small displays with lenses and

semitransparent mirrors embedded in a helmet, eye-

glasses (also known as data glasses) or visor. The

display units are miniaturised and may include CRT,

LCDs, Liquid crystal on silicon (LCos), or OLED.

Some vendors employ multiple micro-displays to in-

crease total resolution and eld of view. Combining

real-world view with CGI can be done by projectingthe CGI through a partially reective mirror and view-

ing the real world directly. This method is often called

Optical See-Through. Major HMD applications include

military, governmental (re, police, etc.) and civilian/

commercial (medicine, video gaming, sports, etc.).



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AR Googles.

See-through AR.



Current Practices


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Project Name: BMW Augmented Reality in Practice

Project Credits: BMW Services


BMW Augmented Reality guides the mechanic through

the entire repair procedure. Growing demands and

increasing technical complexity are thus met with a

constantly high level of service. Customers can rest

assured that when their BMW is serviced it will ben-

et from maximum expertise, cutting-edge technology

and professional staff. And so, even after many years

of driving, they can safely rely on the performance of

their BMW.

Using augmented reality, the mechanic receives ad-

ditional three-dimensional information on the engine

he is repairing, for example, to help him in diagnosingand solving the fault. Apart from the real environment,

he sees virtually animated components, the tools to

be used and hears instruction on each of the work-

ing steps through headphones integrated inside the

goggles.



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Explanation of the Game

Users Navigating the Labyrinth



Current Practices


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Project Name: Invisible Maze

Project Credits: Jeppe Hein


The promised maze is there but it only materialises as

we move around in it. Visitors are equipped with digi-

tal headphones operated by infrared rays that cause

them to vibrate every time they bump into one of the

mazes virtual walls. Thus, the exhibition is perceived

as a both minimalist and a spectacular playground.

The maze structure spans six different variants, all of

them referring to labyrinths from our common cultural

history. From the medieval labyrinth in Chartres to

Kubriks fateful dead end from the lm The Shining to

Pac-Man. The maze changes from day to day, inviting

visitors to make repeat visits.



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Manipulation of a Brain Model

Commercial Haptic Device



Current Practices


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Project Name: Haptic Devices for Medical Training

and Intervention


Haptic technology, or haptics, is a tactile feedback

technology that takes advantage of a users sense of

touch by applying forces, vibrations, or motions to the

user. This mechanical stimulation may be used to as-

sist in the creation of virtual objects and the enhance-

ment of the remote control for machines and devices.

It has been described as doing for the sense of touch

what computer graphics does for vision.

Various haptic interfaces for medical simulation may

prove especially useful for training of minimally inva-

sive procedures and remote surgery using teleopera-

tors. A particular advantage of this type of work is that

the surgeon can perform many more operations of asimilar type, and with less fatigue. Research indicates

that haptic interfaces are a signicant teaching aid in

palpatory diagnosis (detection of medical problems via

touch).

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