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View article: LogicGlue: Hardware-Independent Embedded Programming Through Platform-Independent Drivers
LogicGlue: Hardware-Independent Embedded Programming Through Platform-Independent Drivers Open
The growing capabilities of microcontrollers, sensors, and actuators, coupled with decreasing costs, have led to a proliferation of embedded interactive systems. Prototyping such electronic systems has become democratized across a broad au…
View article: Designing Instructions using Self-Determination Theory to Improve Motivation and Engagement for Learning Craft
Designing Instructions using Self-Determination Theory to Improve Motivation and Engagement for Learning Craft Open
Recent HCI research has shown signifcant interest in investigating digital working instructions for guiding novices to perform manual tasks. While performance enhancement has been a primary focus, it is increasingly recognized that technol…
View article: Demonstrating History in Motion: Interactive 3D Animated Visualizations for Understanding and Exploring the Modeling History of 3D CAD Designs
Demonstrating History in Motion: Interactive 3D Animated Visualizations for Understanding and Exploring the Modeling History of 3D CAD Designs Open
History in Motion (HiM) is an interactive visualization tool that enables CAD designers to interactively explore the design history of 3D CAD models. In contrast to manually exploring the modeling history of a CAD project, designers can se…
View article: History in Motion: Interactive 3D Animated Visualizations for Understanding and Exploring the Modeling History of 3D CAD Designs
History in Motion: Interactive 3D Animated Visualizations for Understanding and Exploring the Modeling History of 3D CAD Designs Open
We present History in Motion (HiM), an interactive visualization tool that enables CAD designers to interactively explore the design history of 3D CAD models. In contrast to manually exploring the modeling history of a CAD project, HiM fin…
View article: AirLogic: Embedding Pneumatic Computation and I/O in 3D Models to Fabricate Electronics-Free Interactive Objects
AirLogic: Embedding Pneumatic Computation and I/O in 3D Models to Fabricate Electronics-Free Interactive Objects Open
A B 0 0 1 1 (c) (d) Inputs Air supply Exhaust Vent Vent A B B 0 1 A 0 1 (a) (b) Figure 1: AirLogic enables 3D printing interactive objects that are powered by airfow. We integrate printed logical structures like OR gates (a) alongside tube…
View article: LaserSVG: Responsive Laser-Cutter Templates
LaserSVG: Responsive Laser-Cutter Templates Open
Laser cutters take vector data for the shapes they cut or engrave as input, however, re-using a given design with different material or on a different machine requires adaptation of the template. Unfortunately, vector drawings lack the sem…
View article: A Model-Based Sensor Fusion Approach for Force and Shape Estimation in Soft Robotics
A Model-Based Sensor Fusion Approach for Force and Shape Estimation in Soft Robotics Open
In this letter, we address the challenge of sensor fusion in Soft Robotics for estimating forces and deformations. In the context of intrinsic sensing, we propose the use of soft capacitive sensing to find a contact's location, and the use…
View article: StackMold: Rapid Prototyping of Functional Multi-Material Objects with Selective Levels of Surface Details
StackMold: Rapid Prototyping of Functional Multi-Material Objects with Selective Levels of Surface Details Open
Wij presenteren StackMold, een doe-het-zelf giet techniek om prototypes te maken van meerdere materialen en elektronica. Het idee achter onze aanpak is een nieuw meerder-lagen mal bouw techniek waarbij het gieten en opbouwen van de mal elk…
View article: JigFab
JigFab Open
supports casual makers in designing and fabricating constructions
\nwith power tools. Starting from a digital version
\nof the construction, JigFab achieves this by generating various
\ntypes of constraints that configure and physically ai…