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                      Final Bioplastic with CNC Mold

The plastic mold recipe:

Recipe ratio (from @nikhileshmohan) :

6ml water

1.5ml glycerol

2ml vinegar

20g gelatin

5g starch

and a whole lot of beads and sequins (note: not in the original recipe)

All heated and mixed together, poured onto our CNC mold, cooled for about a week for this cool result!

Week 5 Bioplastics with my team  @sanoyadidi @aditimonga  

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Week 7 Assignment Refinement 

Exploring merging and changing codes to perform different functions.

With Sayjel’s help (big thanks), I manage to change PoseNet code allowing the viewer to see their face while the snowflakes fall and accumulates on the detected face(s).

*Thanks to my beautiful model  @DaniaAbdulkarim

Updated Code#

let video; let poseNet; let poses = []; let skeletons = []; let snowflakes = []; var faceX, faceY

function setup() {  createCanvas(innerWidth, innerHeight);

 video = createCapture(VIDEO);  video.size(width, height);

 poseNet = ml5.poseNet(video, modelReady);

 poseNet.on('pose', function (results) {    poses = results;  });

 video.hide();  faceX = width/2  faceY = height/2

}

function modelReady() {  select('#status').html('Model Loaded'); }

var count = 0 var r = 0.22414 var g = 0.1234124 var b = 0.623623

function drawKeypoints()  {

     if (poses.length > 0){        let keypoint = poses[0].pose.keypoints[0];

       if (keypoint.score > 0.2) {          fill(255, 0, 0);          noStroke();          fill(255)

         faceX = keypoint.position.x          faceY = keypoint.position.y

       }      }

} function bearFace(x,y){

}

function draw() {

 image(video, 0, 0, width, height);

 let t = frameCount / 60;

 for (let i = 0; i < random(5); i++) {    snowflakes.push(new snowflake());  } var diameter = 200

 for (let flake of snowflakes) {    if (dist(flake.posX,flake.posY,faceX,faceY)>diameter/2){     flake.update(t);          }    flake.display();  }

  drawKeypoints()

}

function snowflake() {

 this.posX = 0;  this.posY = random(-50, 0);  this.initialangle = random(0, 2 * PI);  this.size = random(2, 5);

 this.radius = sqrt(random(pow(width / 2, 2)));

 this.update = function(time) {

   let w = 0.6;    let angle = w * time + this.initialangle;    this.posX = width / 2 + this.radius * sin(angle);

   this.posY += pow(this.size, 0.5);

   if (this.posY > height) {      let index = snowflakes.indexOf(this);      snowflakes.splice(index, 1);    }  };

 this.display = function() {    noStroke()    fill(255)    ellipse(this.posX, this.posY, this.size);  }; }

function drawSkeleton() {

 for (let i = 0; i < poses.length; i++) {

   for (let j = 0; j < poses[i].skeleton.length; j++) {      let partA = poses[i].skeleton[j][0];      let partB = poses[i].skeleton[j][1];      stroke(255, 0, 0);      line(partA.position.x, partA.position.y, partB.position.x, partB.position.y);    }  } }

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Textile & Weaving

This week’s workshop we explored different types of natural and synthetics textiles with Maggie, then we learned how to weave our own textile with laser cut weaving frames.

Tiny Carpet 

Trial#1

I started following Maggie’s instructions on how to use the kit and explored the different wool and cotton threads by  weaving through 2 strings at a time  and later switched onto weaving through 1 thread up and 1 thread down  to create a  transition of thickness and mixed knots to form a tiny carpet with a soft color pallet!

Bow Jumper 

Trial#2

After finishing the previous trial, I want to explore further on more of mixing denim and different thicknesses and type of wool with a winter color pallet as a tester of a jumper and added different side knots to shape the design and give it different levels of textures through keeping the ending loops un-cut.

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Robotic Pet Proposal

@aditimonga  and I would like to create a Robo-pet inspired by fennec fox and Japanese squirrel as we find their charming, furry and innocent look also works as natural camouflage for their surprising abilities. 

Check out @aditimonga ‘s post on our other inspiration!

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Parametric Surfaces*

Week 2- Surface 1 to generate a non-planar surface I varied the positive and negatives (U and V number sliders )direction, and intensity.

Surface 2 Applying lunchbox program on Surface1 by varying the U and V number sliders and the image-mapper.

*Note to future DIDI students :)

This week we prepared the 3D model of 2 surfaces using Grasshopper through the following steps:

 (there are tons of tutorials online ....here is an example of a  beginner tutorial  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bAyWdHPXas)  

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Week 8-Sheikhabot

Module D-Phase 1-final submission 

Team(@aditimonga  @meem-didi )

For this phase final, we had so many trials and exploration with curve M and O laser cut scissors legs.

Finally, we used curve C scissors to create our robot legs, as it gave the best results.

Thanks to @aditimonga for great collaboration and support! excited about our final robopet project! 

  Robot Closed and Deployed states#

Circuit#

Tchakerian, R. (2019). ConnectionWithoutBattery. [image] Available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12SSbWtyDS-o86mwNrdnY-N3t9CybQO63/view?usp=sharing [Accessed 30 Mar. 2019].

Code#

Tchakerian, R. (2019). ServoVariableSpeedDIDI. [code] Available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MDH0_F8k1PYeHVuJEa3mnSDRz7OikcWa/view?usp=sharing

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Week 9 - ARDUINO-Submission#3

During the second part of this module, our team (@aditimonga and I  ) focused on exploring different approaches to make our robot interactive, through using different sensors and actuators combined with Arduino. our final goal is to develop and experiment various ways of robotic and animatronic movements to assist us in both our studio final project  NANOIDA (interactive installation), and our ROBOPET for workshop final project.

Module D- phase 2- Submission#3

This trial we used the push buttons to control the movement of our robot up and down.

Right button = up movement 

Left button =down movement  

Circut#3

Arduino Code#3

Highlighted lines have been edited, based on the original:

Maker Tutor (2018). Control Servo Motor with Push button - Arduino Tutorial. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Pj9yuZlhI [Accessed 30 Mar. 2019].

We referred to the following tutorials and guides as well:

Maker Tutor (2019). Control Servo Motor with Push button - Arduino Tutorial. [online] arduinotutorialonline.com. Available at: http://www.arduinotutorialonline.com/2018/01/control-servo-motor-with-push-button.html[Accessed 30 Mar. 2019].

Robojax (2018). Control Servo motor with push button with Arduino. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7woqNH_qby4 [Accessed 30 Mar. 2019].

Robojax (2018). Control Servo with Pushbuttons using Arduino. [online] Robojax.com. Available at: http://robojax.com/learn/arduino/?vid=robojax-servo-push-button[Accessed 30 Mar. 2019].

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Week 9 - ARDUINO- Submission#2

During the second part of this module, our team (@aditimonga and I  ) focused on exploring different approaches to make our robot interactive, through using different sensors and actuators combined with Arduino. our final goal is to develop and experiment various ways of robotic and animatronic movements to assist us in both our studio final project  NANOIDA (interactive installation), and our ROBOPET for workshop final project.

Module D- phase 2-Submission#2

This trial we aimed to control our robot precise movement directions using a joystick and it was successful and  beneficial experimentation to develop further for our studio project NANOIDA  

Circuit#2

Arduino Code#

Highlighted lines have been edited, based on the original:

Tellem, L. (2017). ARDUINO Tutorial 05: Controlling Servo Motor with Joystick | Robot Arm. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5oO0mZQfo4 [Accessed 30 Mar. 2019]

We referred to the following tutorials and guides as well:

Arduino Forum (2015). arduino joystick wiring. [online] Available at: http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=356575.0 [Accessed 30 Mar. 2019].

Winters, T. (2016). How To Connect Analog Joystick [Arduino Tutorial]. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8iaW5YcsNE[Accessed 30 Mar. 2019].