Fab Bots 2.0
student team: Miguel Guerrero, Natasa Pistofidou, Carolina Miro, Chrisa Karakana
tutors: Marta Male Alemany, Victor Vina, Brian peters
Hacking into Devices Workshop_Emilio
In a three day workshop we hacked into a toy, the Emilio robot. By using real-time data (light sensor in our case) and programming with
Arduino and Processing we came up with an autonomous machine drawing light sensitivepatterns bigger than its actual size.
Our first thought was how to use the movement as a source of information and interaction with a machine.
We decided to use a color as a source of interaction and real data creating an image of this stimulus on a physical result.
The machine works with 4 main steps: IMPUT_color stimulus, CAMERA-Screen_to identify the movement, PROCESS the information and RESPONSE on a physical result.
the “light detector” is the outcome of the workshop in digital tectonics 2011 at Iaac . By taking apart a basic printer and reusing its motors in combination with some laser cut MDF parts and a microcontroller we finally succeeded in transforming the old printer into a light mapping device which could both map light intensity and localize areas of equal light intensities in a radial diagram.