by Ansh Verma | Jan 25, 2015 | Ansh Verma, News
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 with cardboard,...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Jan 5, 2015 | 2015, Ansh Verma, Design Learn, DESIGN METHOD, Jasjeet Seehra, Karthik Ramani, Publications, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Tangibles
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 animate...
by Ansh Verma | Jun 17, 2014 | 2014, Ansh Verma, Karthik Ramani, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Tangibles
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 using our modules...
