Interaction.Lab

Arduino Line Following Robot with IR Sensor array

eyal — Sat, 29 May 2010 08:24:31 +0000

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LJsVrzxIcQ&feature=player_embedded

HRI

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 09:47:24 +0000

perhaps these can be good resources to start learning a bit about human-robot interaction:
http://www.peopleandrobots.org/
http://hri2009.org/
this article is old-ish but looks highly quoted: bartneckHC2001

Organic Fan

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:29:15 +0000

check out this fan made by Ofir Zack from bezalel.
too bad i don’t have a video – but it moves in a very organic manner, like a very big leaf…

PrintDreams – wow

eyal — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:23:45 +0000

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhLFxRgfQ8

its an amazing handle printer and camera,
it looks like its a project from Interaction Design course…

Eyal

Drawing fractals

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 20:51:43 +0000

This weekend I met Natalie Andrew who is doing a post-doc at Harvard around Biology and Art, she told me that one of her (still in the middle) projects is a processing program in which you draw and the software creates fractals from it. Naturally I asked if I could try it!

I just got the link and couldn’t run it on first try, but maybe it’s some Java update thing, try:
> http://elaket.com/recurser/

(the imge is from another project, but just to have one in the post

Update – I managed to run it (on Safari for some reason). Quite nice visually but not really clear in terms of the underlying process. Try it.

The real thing – A ROBO-PRINTER.

eyal — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:55:10 +0000

Robot printer - this one uses a different print head, it looks like they used a lots of hardware (and probably software)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukxT9QqYgG0&feature=related - this print-bot is simpler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7t0Ns0zLps&feature=related

Musical alarm – short description

yael — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:26:50 +0000

Car alarms (especially in Saturday morning) can be quit annoying. No one really pays attention when the alarm is playing – not the thief’s, and not the owner of the car.
When you think of it all car alarm just sound the same…

We want to give people the possibility to choose their own bit/song as an alarm –
first of all they could recognize their alarm playing even few blocks away,
and second the neighbors has suffered enough…

Our first try was to connect an old radio to a shock sensor…

alarm – testing from yael on Vimeo.

96 dpi Serial Inkjet Printer Development Kit

eyal — Sat, 15 May 2010 06:15:22 +0000

HP has a Development Kit for the Inkjet. the Doc describes how to work with it.

they actually mount it to a ROBOT !!!
http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/prod/robo/InkjetKitDocs-v1.0.pdf

robots parade

eyal — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:20:54 +0000

robot parade

a company that provides wide range of robots kits, sensors and much more !!

http://www.parallax.com/

WARM-E first steps

yael — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:53:11 +0000

By attaching adjustable shutters on top of the heater, and with a little help from some servo motors, we want to create an interactive blow-heater that responds its environment.

first prototype

1 servo + 1 light sensor

one servo from yael on Vimeo.

4 servo + 1 light sensor

four servo from yael on Vimeo.

We guesse the real challenge we are facing in this project is how to create the movement of the shutters fill natural and organic, and to create an intuitive behavior with this device…