Keystone studio Somewhere Something is offering a series of Summer Workshops. This is a two day intensive workshop creating a robotic arm, Saturday and Sunday noon - 6pm.
The workshop will develop the workflow of motion tracking to machine actuation. Each participant will fabricate and assemble a small prototype of a multi-axis arm, controlled with a variety of sensory inputs. The project will be developed in Grasshopper and Firefly, using the Arduino microcontroller. No previous experience is required.
Workshop overview:
1 – Sensing and Actuating
- Brief Introduction to Grasshopper
- Brief Introduction to Arduino
- Introduction to Firefly
2 – Arm simulation
- Introduction to Vector Math in Grasshopper
- Simulation of the multi-axis Arm
3 – Fabrication
- Brief introduction to laser cutting
- Laser cutting the arm components
4 – Motion Tracking to Actuation
- Introduction to Motion tracking (Kinect, Leap Motion, iPhone)
- Controlling the arm with various motion inputs