by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Aug 3, 2017 | 2017, DESIGN METHOD, Jeff Alperovich, Joran Booth, Karthik Ramani, Pratik Chawla, Recent Publications, Uncategorized
Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have become integral to modern prototyping and manufacturing. Therefore, guidelines for using AM are necessary to help users new to the technology. Many others have proposed useful guidelines, but these are rarely written in a...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | May 12, 2017 | 2017, Jeff Alperovich, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications, Senthil Chandrasegaran
The societal demand for inspiring and engaging science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students and preparing our workforce for the emerging creative economy has necessitated developing students self-efficacy and understanding of engineering design...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Dec 30, 2016 | 2017, DESIGN METHOD, Fabrication, Jeff Alperovich, Jing Bai, Karthik Ramani, Min Liu, Recent Publications, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Tangibles, Yuanzhi Cao, Yunbo Zhang
We propose WireFab, a rapid modeling and prototyping system that uses bent metal wires as the structure framework. WireFab approximates both the skeletal articulation and the skin appearance of the corresponding virtual skin meshes, and it allows users to personalize...