394: Being Four-Year-Olds

Professor HyunJoo Oh of GeorgiaTech spoke to us about paper machines, paper mechanical movements, paper sensors, paper tiny Jansen Strandbeests, and paper art.

HyunJoo is a professor at GeorgiaTech. She is the director of the CoDe Craft group. Some of the projects we spoke about can be found on the CoDe Craft Projects page. 

PaperMech.net has demonstrations of different mechanical movements as well as FoldMecha which shows you what cardboard you need to cut out to make your own mechanical movement, including making a cardboard walker using Jansen mechanism (Theo Jansen (wikipedia) made the Strandbeest). HyunJoo recommends two books for exploring further:

• The 507 Mechanical Movements book as a way to explore more mechanical movements

• Paper Automata: Four Working Models to Cut Out and Glue Together by Rob Ives 

With Unblackboxing Computers, HyunJoo is exploring sensors that can be made with copper tape on paper. The introduction video: https://vimeo.com/637626404/f670dff03e 

385: I Just Wanted an Industrial Arm

Jeremy Fielding spoke with us about mechanical engineering, robotics, robot operating system, YouTube, and solving problems.

You can find all of Jeremy’s links on his main site: jeremyfielding.com but here are a few short cuts:

• YouTube channel: Jeremy Fielding

• Twitter: @jeremy_fielding

• Instagram: @jeremy_fielding

• Patreon: jeremyfieldingsr
  

Jeremy’s Industrial arm punching video

Elecia’s typing robot

Jeremy had a neat way to go about solving a problem. He called it Dr. FARM:

• D Define the problem

• R Research other solutions, partial solutions, terminology

• F Function: what do I want it to do?

• A Appearance: what should it look like?

• R Risk: is anyone going to get hurt in manufacture and function?

• M Model: prototype the design

AR3 Open Source Control Software and a version with ROS MoveIt