The 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Figure 1: Sketched Reality explores bi-directional interactions between AR-based virtual sketches... more Figure 1: Sketched Reality explores bi-directional interactions between AR-based virtual sketches and actuated tangible UIs. When the user sketches a virtual spring (green lines), the user can start pulling the spring with a physical robot (yellow box), so that the sketched virtual spring affects the physical robot by applying the force like a slingshot game (virtual → physical). When the robot hits the virtual sketched circles, then the robot also affects the virtual objects, as if the physical robot collides with virtual sketched circles like a billiard board game (physical → virtual).
We introduce Swarm Fabrication, a novel concept of creating ondemand, scalable, and reconfigurabl... more We introduce Swarm Fabrication, a novel concept of creating ondemand, scalable, and reconfigurable fabrication machines made of swarm robots. We present ways to construct an element of fabrication machines, such as motors, elevator, table, feeder, and extruder, by leveraging toio robots and 3D printed attachments. By combining these elements, we demonstrate constructing a X-Y-Z plotter with multiple toio robots, which can be used for drawing plotters and 3D printers. We also show the possibility to extend our idea to more general-purpose fabrication machines, which include 3D printers, CNC machining, foam cutters, line drawing devices, pick and place machines, 3D scanning, etc. Through this, we draw a future vision, where the swarm robots can construct a scalable and reconfigurable fabrication machines on-demand, which can be deployed anywhere the user wishes. We believe this fabrication technique will become a means of interactive and highly flexible fabrication in the future.
The 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Figure 1: Sketched Reality explores bi-directional interactions between AR-based virtual sketches... more Figure 1: Sketched Reality explores bi-directional interactions between AR-based virtual sketches and actuated tangible UIs. When the user sketches a virtual spring (green lines), the user can start pulling the spring with a physical robot (yellow box), so that the sketched virtual spring affects the physical robot by applying the force like a slingshot game (virtual → physical). When the robot hits the virtual sketched circles, then the robot also affects the virtual objects, as if the physical robot collides with virtual sketched circles like a billiard board game (physical → virtual).
We introduce Swarm Fabrication, a novel concept of creating ondemand, scalable, and reconfigurabl... more We introduce Swarm Fabrication, a novel concept of creating ondemand, scalable, and reconfigurable fabrication machines made of swarm robots. We present ways to construct an element of fabrication machines, such as motors, elevator, table, feeder, and extruder, by leveraging toio robots and 3D printed attachments. By combining these elements, we demonstrate constructing a X-Y-Z plotter with multiple toio robots, which can be used for drawing plotters and 3D printers. We also show the possibility to extend our idea to more general-purpose fabrication machines, which include 3D printers, CNC machining, foam cutters, line drawing devices, pick and place machines, 3D scanning, etc. Through this, we draw a future vision, where the swarm robots can construct a scalable and reconfigurable fabrication machines on-demand, which can be deployed anywhere the user wishes. We believe this fabrication technique will become a means of interactive and highly flexible fabrication in the future.
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