ucsd-creative-robotics

Augmentation

For this project you will design an augmentation. This could be a wearable for a person, a prosthetic for an animal, or an augmentation to an object. Your augmentation will have 3 Degrees of Freedom (DOF). And it should demonstrate expressive movement, i.e. the way that it moves should create a feeling, communicate a state, establish a relationship with a viewer.

Design Considerations

Ideation:
- What is the target for your augmentation? Is it a wearable for a person, a prosthetic for an animal, an augmentation of an object? (Discuss)
- How will it attach?
- What types of motion will it use? (servos, DC motors with wheels, etc.)
What does the augmentation communicate? (for instance, Ian Ingram’s piece below communicates danger in squirrel tail language). Remember our theme of expressive movement—-what is the character of the movement?
Design
Fabrication
Program

Proposal

Add new pages to your digital sketchbook. Address the questions from the Design Considerations above.
Add sketches, images, that communicate your creative plans.

Prototype

Bring a functional prototype with 2 degrees of freedom to class on Week 5.
Add pages to your digital sketchbook that document this functional prototype.

Final Submission

Sketchbook Updates:
- add sketches; circuit designs; photographs of parts/components; process images/videos; photos of final product; any notes, narrative about process.
Submission:
- Photographs of the final project
- Video of the project in motion
- Dev board source code as a zip file.
- 3d models of anything you printed.
- Upload all of these files to Canvas
  - (use the naming convention lastname_p1.jpg lastname_p1.3dm, lastname_p1.zip for source code)