Whisker: Making Assignment 1
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OUR GUESS:
Mauricio/Chin/ Nissa:
what is it: mole cam, search and rescue, detect density of materials, way finding, egress creation.
tech: mobility, vibration/ acoustic sensing, noise/voice detection/ microphone, GPS/ locater, communication channel/ voice, gas/ organics detection, networking/swarming behavior,
value: rescue, survival assistance,
OUR EVALUATION:
Our project resembles a mechanical analogue of a land based creature that can sense things around itself using whiskers located at the side of its head, underneath and on the top of its body. It can also see using its large eye.
The main properties of the first part of my whisker is its magnetic attraction, as a response to its own surrounding. In essence the whisker acts as an antenna to send out electromagnetic signals to allow for an animal to respond to a predator that is nearby.
OUR GUESS:
Amy:
what is it: death trap, ancient time traveling machine, electric mustache, electro magnetic antenna, communication device compass,
tech:stationary base, heavy material, jamming/discreet radio,
value:
OUR GUESS:
Austin/
what is it: angler fish, environmental mapper, neurotransmitter, data collector, autonomous medical device, biological surveyor, skin, white blood cell, random number generator
tech:RFID, chemical gas detection,
value:data collection
OUR GUESS:
Liang/Wangfang/Ayo
what is it: invaders, armies, potential actor, team/ swarm
tech:satellite transmission, networking, discreet communication, accelerometer, gyroscope, capactive technology
value: affective (?)
MY EVALUATION:
We hope to create things interactive, adorable, and functional. This could be a set of intelligent agents that have the ability to communicate with each other. They perform different roles with specific shape/structure and sensor technology. For example, #001 could detect vibration and orientation by attaching four accelerometers on each stand; #002 could recognise its rotation, orientation and vibration with accelerometer and gyroscope attached on the outer cross-over point of the framework. In addition, the "cells" in the centre help it detect the position of user's touch on the whisker with capacitive abilities; #003 integrates both features of #001 and #002 and uses a core mechanism of a toy - a transmission device - to tell the spin of the whisker. They could work in various ways: work alone to express emotional feedback; sense the surrounding environment; work together to complete a task... In one word, we hope to design something smart and helpful, from but more than a natural whisker.
OUR GUESS:
Yingri/Ding
what is it: a wind device, a flower that only blooms once, shape changing antenna, responsive machine, skeleton, Bowser, insect, helmet
tech: receiver for multiple inputs, electric capacitor, gyroscope,
value:
Whisker One:
This whisker is inspired by the mechanisms by hacking into ink cartridges. Through rotation and pressure between two points, it analyzes the possibilities of different stimulations.
Gaby/Andre/Maya
what is it: squeaky floor machine, geiger counter, communication system, mating caller, evolutionary binary, instrument, distress signal,
tech: genetic algorithm,
value: fun
OUR GUESS:
Jake/
what is it: human detector,echo device, record/ repeat, stimulation simulation, infinite feedback loop, a thinking machine
tech:piezo,
value:
MY EVALUATION:
This could be an expressive instrument, or a fairly effective human detector as was guessed. The wooden whiskers amplify the piezo's ability to detect vibration. The whiskers also take the piezo's functionality into 3d space.
OUR GUESS:
Meng/Yang
what is it: an expressive machine, acting machine, emotional abstractor, projector, (hand shadow)
tech: input/output filtering,
value: emotive
OUR EVALUATION:
The whisker 01:we want to explore the interaction between human and whiskers. What is the reflection if we pull the whiskers? shake them? The change become more interesting if we use shadows to express them, they can show the face which the masks do not show up.
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OUR GUESS:
Mauricio/Chin/ Nissa:
what is it: mole cam, search and rescue, detect density of materials, way finding, egress creation.
tech: mobility, vibration/ acoustic sensing, noise/voice detection/ microphone, GPS/ locater, communication channel/ voice, gas/ organics detection, networking/swarming behavior,
value: rescue, survival assistance,
OUR EVALUATION:
Our project resembles a mechanical analogue of a land based creature that can sense things around itself using whiskers located at the side of its head, underneath and on the top of its body. It can also see using its large eye.
OUR GUESS:
Amy:
what is it: death trap, ancient time traveling machine, electric mustache, electro magnetic antenna, communication device compass,
tech:stationary base, heavy material, jamming/discreet radio,
value:
OUR GUESS:
Austin/
what is it: angler fish, environmental mapper, neurotransmitter, data collector, autonomous medical device, biological surveyor, skin, white blood cell, random number generator
tech:RFID, chemical gas detection,
value:data collection
OUR GUESS:
Liang/Wangfang/Ayo
what is it: invaders, armies, potential actor, team/ swarm
tech:satellite transmission, networking, discreet communication, accelerometer, gyroscope, capactive technology
value: affective (?)
MY EVALUATION:
We hope to create things interactive, adorable, and functional. This could be a set of intelligent agents that have the ability to communicate with each other. They perform different roles with specific shape/structure and sensor technology. For example, #001 could detect vibration and orientation by attaching four accelerometers on each stand; #002 could recognise its rotation, orientation and vibration with accelerometer and gyroscope attached on the outer cross-over point of the framework. In addition, the "cells" in the centre help it detect the position of user's touch on the whisker with capacitive abilities; #003 integrates both features of #001 and #002 and uses a core mechanism of a toy - a transmission device - to tell the spin of the whisker. They could work in various ways: work alone to express emotional feedback; sense the surrounding environment; work together to complete a task... In one word, we hope to design something smart and helpful, from but more than a natural whisker.
OUR GUESS:
Yingri/Ding
what is it: a wind device, a flower that only blooms once, shape changing antenna, responsive machine, skeleton, Bowser, insect, helmet
tech: receiver for multiple inputs, electric capacitor, gyroscope,
value:
Whisker One:
This whisker is inspired by the mechanisms by hacking into ink cartridges. Through rotation and pressure between two points, it analyzes the possibilities of different stimulations.
Whisker Two:
This whisker is inspired by the plant touch-me-not. It it intended to be "shy" when there's any king of disturbance. So the leaf-like structure closes when they are touched and closes when the disturbance is lifted.
Whisker Three:
This draws inspirations from hedgehog. The small whiskers are meant to be sensitive and if they detect any kind of environmental changes, it will induce the shape of the base to change and hence result in a very different structure which will give feedback to the environment.
Gaby/Andre/Maya
what is it: squeaky floor machine, geiger counter, communication system, mating caller, evolutionary binary, instrument, distress signal,
tech: genetic algorithm,
value: fun
OUR GUESS:
Jake/
what is it: human detector,echo device, record/ repeat, stimulation simulation, infinite feedback loop, a thinking machine
tech:piezo,
value:
MY EVALUATION:
This could be an expressive instrument, or a fairly effective human detector as was guessed. The wooden whiskers amplify the piezo's ability to detect vibration. The whiskers also take the piezo's functionality into 3d space.
OUR GUESS:
Meng/Yang
what is it: an expressive machine, acting machine, emotional abstractor, projector, (hand shadow)
tech: input/output filtering,
value: emotive
OUR EVALUATION:
The whisker 01:we want to explore the interaction between human and whiskers. What is the reflection if we pull the whiskers? shake them? The change become more interesting if we use shadows to express them, they can show the face which the masks do not show up.
The whisker 02:the idea behind this project is to make a Whisker
to have a very nature of the Whisker, growth. We used a band of hard paper to
be the shell of a Whisker made of wood line. The Whisker go back inside the
shell when we squeeze the shell and vice versa, which produce an effect that it
can actually grow.
The whisker 03:the idea behind this project is to make the
Whiskers very light and thin so it can provide visual and voice feedback when
people passing by. 
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