HandiMate: Exploring a Modular Robotics kit for Animating Crafted Toys

HandiMate: Exploring a Modular Robotics kit for Animating Crafted Toys

Sang Ho Yoon , Ansh Verma , Kylie Peppler, Karthik Ramani
In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design & Children (IDC'15), Tufts University, USA, 2015

Building from our previous work we explore HandiMate, a robotics kit which enables users to construct and animate their toys using everyday craft materials [32]. The kit contains eight joint modules, a tablet interface and a glove controller....

HandiMate – Inside Indiana Business with Gerry Dick.

HandiMate – Inside Indiana Business with Gerry Dick.

Press coverage of HandiMate by Gerry Dick for Inside Indiana Business. Modalert 200Mg Tab Uses and Benefits Modafinil tablets usp 200mg tablet is a prescribed medication used in the treatment of narcolepsy, a condition in which there are...

Indiana-Made Robot Toy Merges Creativity, Technology

Indiana-Made Robot Toy Merges Creativity, Technology

Move over, LEGO Mindstorm and K'NEX. There's a new robot toy in town, and it was created right here in Indiana. The HandiMate robot toolkit is the brainchild of Purdue University Professor of Mechanical Engineering Karthik Ramani, and it could soon...

What can you make with cardboard and tape? A robot

What can you make with cardboard and tape? A robot

There’s a new DIY robotics toolkit in town, and you don’t need to know anything about electronics or programming to use it. HandiMate, developed by researchers from Purdue and Indiana universities, lets children (or anyone else) build robots...

HandiMate: Create and Animate using everyday objects

HandiMate: Create and Animate using everyday objects

Jasjeet Singh Seehra, Ansh Verma, Kylie Peppler, Karhik Ramani
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interactions, Stanford University, January 15-19, 2015

The combination of technological progress and a growing interest in design has promoted the prevalence of DIY (Do It Yourself) and craft activities. In a similar spirit, we introduce HandiMate, a platform that makes it easier to fabricate and...

SOFTii: Soft Tangible Interface for Continuous Control of Virtual Objects with Pressure-based Input

SOFTii: Soft Tangible Interface for Continuous Control of Virtual Objects with Pressure-based Input

Vinh Nguyen, Pramod Kumar, Sang Ho Yoon, Ansh Verma, Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Jan 15-19, Stanford University, USA. pp 539-544, 2015

We present SOFTii, a flexible input system for topography design and continuous control via external force. Our intent is to provide a tactile metaphor for pressure-based surface input. In this study, two prototypes of SOFTii have been fabricated:...

BendID: Flexible Interface for Localized Deformation Recognition

BendID: Flexible Interface for Localized Deformation Recognition

Vinh Nguyen, Sang Ho Yoon, Ansh Verma, Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the ACM international Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Sep 13-17, Seattle, USA. pp 553-557, 2014

We present BendID, a bendable input device that recognizes the location, magnitude and direction of its deformation. We use BendID to provide users with a tactile metaphor for pressure based input. The device is constructed by layering an array of...

ChiroBot: Modular-Robotic Manipulation via Spatial Hand Gestures.

ChiroBot: Modular-Robotic Manipulation via Spatial Hand Gestures.

Jasjeet Singh Seehra, Ansh Verma and Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Interaction design and children (IDC '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 209-212.

We introduce ChiroBot, a cyber-physical construction kit that allows users to create custom robots out of craft material, easily assemble the robots using joint modules and control them using hand gestures. These hand-crafted robots are assembled...

Chiron: Interpreting signals from Capacitive Patterns and Inertial Sensors for intuitive Shape Modeling.

Chiron: Interpreting signals from Capacitive Patterns and Inertial Sensors for intuitive Shape Modeling.

Ansh Verma, Gabriel Culberston and Karthik Ramani
In Proceedings of the extended abstracts of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 1831-1836). ACM.

In this paper we introduce Chiron (abbr. Chironomia ): A wearable device for the hand that reads the digital and analogous signals from capacitive sensor patterns and orientation sensors, to interpret user-intent. Here, we explore two cases -- (a)...