Rings: Diameters of 0.6mm and 0.8mm, closed into rings of radius ranging from 2cm to 6cm. Made of nylon 6, PVDF polyvinylidene difluoride or PDMS polydimethylsiloxane held together with short pieces of thermo-contracting PVDF shrink tubes or metallic brass tubes Straight Fibers: Made of nylon 6, P...
Summary:\ In this project, there is a netowrk of SWOT satellites with 5 altimeters satellites and 1 camera satellite running on different orbits. Each of them has different sensor to detect the ground points of the river. The goal is to decide whether the flood happens or not. For our part, we w...
The last two weeks have been conference season, with a demo at UIST and a paper at SCF (Symposium on Computational Fabrication). In particular, if you're been following the prior posts on array ports and multipacking, that's the topic of the paper and it's presented in a much more unified and...
While the circuit board HDL compiler and examples have been open-source since we published our UIST'20 paper, we've only recently started rapidly building examples and been able to get the libraries to where this whole system could be more widely used. And as part that push towards release, we've...
Last week was the SoCal Robotics Symposium, which we hosted at UCLA. I was on the organizing committee, and one of the things I did was nametags. The simple way would probably be to type each one in something like MS Word by hand, and for an event of around 200, that probably would be feasible. B...
It's been a while since my last post, and although there has been some interesting work on more example designs (which just got sent to fab 🎉) that'll be another post for another day, hopefully with some fun videos. But today, we revisit an old friend: refactoring the compiler. Again. IntelliJ...
The 8-week summer program has ended, but that does not mean that this project ended. For whoever decides to pick up this project in the future I would like to leave some tips to help you get started. The Github contains various folders: DXF_Files Contains a collection of .dxf files which a...
I reviewed a couple of papers Physical reservoir computing with origami and its application to robotic crawling Recent advances in physical reservoir computing: A review Reservoir Computing: Main takeaways (rough) Physical body of robot takes part in performing low-level control tasks M...
While there has been much work on example boards and core logic over the past months, that work has exposed limitations and UI quirks that have impeded work. Now that the main features are done, it's time decompress and clean up some of that cruft, in particular to maintain development velocity goin...