Tangible Media AG

Tangible Media made at Dawson College, various projects completed within the school and documented within a blog by videos and pictures.

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Now this video is cool. I changed the fps to capture our work in slow motion so you could study how it moves. 

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This is is our first test run, we experimented with the speeds of the machine and we noted that it would change it’s pattern. Chance explains it more in the video but it is awesome. 

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This is Chance working on the motor for the Draw Bot. 

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Draw Bot Mark II

Ashley Gravel and Chance Martin

We gathered a box-cutter, scissors, clear tape, ruler, and a foam board for the project. We also ended up getting some paper clips to hold the ‘arms’ together and some motors. 

First we measured the foam board 16 x 16 in. and began to cut out the frame. 

We also ended up cutting out two 8 x 6 in rectangles. 

we measured out the rectangular arms 1/2 x 2 1/2. Following that we made the 1/2 x 3 in arm, we used the scissors to round it

Next we had our drawing surface - quarter of an inch off one side...we cut out the flag rectangle part and began to assemble our robot’s arms --> because of the odd angle we draw a line to give us some visual aid ---> had to make a secured one because chance insisted on it. 

We used 3 paper clips to hold our arms together, and it was difficult to work with because it was hard to bend but very easy to break. While I was working on on the arms Chance was assembling the Little bits together. 

In the end we made the drawing platform, by the time we did that class was almost over, the project took longer than a team of 2 to complete instead of 4 with around 1 to 2 hours with a 22 minute break. Sadly we couldn’t experiment afterwards after our first draw bot. 

Regardless it was a fun assignment. 

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My partner Chance’s farewell song to our lovely worm we had to take apart. 

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Friendly competition between my group and another group in class. We sorta jokingly made flags on our worms (sadly our american flag fell but it was all in good humor)

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This is the first video of the worm, it was our first test run and I was happy about the success in which it moved. I forgot to mention in the previous post that I cut into the cardboard to create ‘teeth’ that would hold onto fabric or Styrofoam surfaces.  

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Inch Worm

Ashley Gravel and Chance Martin

So for our project we used cardboard as our main body for the worm. 

We cut the body by 3 x 11 and gathered all the necessary materials. 

We ended up using bamboo skewers for form the ‘skeleton’ of the worm’s body. We made incisions so that we can put it through and make a support for the body rather than simply taping it.

We ended up cutting a hole in the body of the worm in order to put paper clip and motor in.

WE ended up using two sided tap to hold the motor in place and attached the paperclip to it, we sorta made it into a fish hook to the paperclip wouldn’t detach from the motor and the front side of the worm. We also ended up bending the paperclip so we could have full mobility.

Isn’t it such a beautiful worm?

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This is the light sensor version of the generator project

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This was the sound senor for the generator project.  

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This is the generator project, when we use the sound sensor to get the motor working. 

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Flashlight and Generator

Chance Martin and Ashley Gravel

Flashlight

Step 1: get the i3 button, bright led and p3 usb power cord out of the box and use the battery pack

Step 2: put it all together and plug in the battery pack and press the light button

- light worked when pressed. No Issues. 

The Generator. 

we removed the light led and replaced it with a light sensor piece but switched it around to see if it would work. We also made use of the sound sensor for this project. 

we added some straw and a rubber band to the motor

discovered that knocking on the table got the sound device to work

light sensitivity to dark, waving our hand over it allowed the motor to swing. 

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Draw Bot #1

Clara McLaren and Ashley Gravel

First we gathered materials: 1 motor, 2 batteries, 4 markers, 1 battery pack, and a role of tape. 

Then we:

Attached the wires to the motor

Hot glued a screw onto the pin of the motor

Tapped the markers onto the cup

1st demo bot: this bot formed spirals on the paper, we used 3 out of the 4 markers we grabbed and tapped the motor to the top. We tried different techniques like moving the paper and disrupting the direction of the bot to fill the paper. 

2nd draw bot: we attached balloons at the bottom of 2 cups, we ended up attach the motor between them. Our issue was that the balloons kept popping on us and to try and make it gain stability we skewered the cups with a bamboo stick to keep it together, the final product was a bust because it did not move at all to draw anything. We only took one picture of it (see below)

3rd bot: we went back to 1 cup and we just kept a balloon at the bottom, we used a lot of tape and markers for this one. As for how the machine went, unlike bot number 1 this one went more in one direction, but it also seemed like it was going to spiral but the paper wasn’t large enough for it to do so.