BBStudio Lab

TALKING POSTER

This is an experiment with conductive ink on an existing poster.

The words on Lift Conference 2014 poster are "touchable" and trigger a voice saying the words one has just touched. Using only ink and traditional paper, we connected the poster with a sparkfun board (capacitive touch sensor), an arduino nano and paper clips.

Many experiment with different conductive inks were necessary to reach an acceptable result.

This is a Fortune Teller based on twitter API's. It tells you the future based on your twitter past...

It's inspired from a original project from rosemarybeetle found here (instructables.com). It browses through the last 200 tweets of one user to build a sentence, display it on a screen and say it using text to speech techniques.

The sentence is made from randomly chosen connector's verbs and words in a predefined list. The user's most frequent words, # and @ are used to build the sentence.

How to make a video game in half an hour 

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Skull made with green filament found at faberdashery

For this model, we wanted to test the best quality available: 0.1 mm layer height, 20% infill, big size. After 12 hours (!) of printing, the result is beyond expectations. The surface is incredibly smooth, the details are stunning and the printer worked well during all the time even when we used the "cold pause" for a night.

For the next exhibition at the Musée de la main, we needed a support for the leap motion. We designed and modelized the support in Cinema 4D and used the printer to optimized it. We were surprised by the precision of the model. In Cinema 4D we smoothen the model to avoid facets, which had no influence in the printing time but gave a better result. 

Setup:

Eames Bird. For this model, we tried to avoid support with a split in two of the 3d model. 

The result looks good and clean, and the lines give a nice finishing to the body. We used wood sticks to make the legs, adding a final touch.

#arduino #sparkfun - touch detecting device sending input wirelessly to any device

New test of Koons balloon dog:

This time we used the Autodesk 3D Print to fix the model problems we had before and with the standard setup in Maker Ware.

The dog was placed in the right position in cinema4D.

134 polygons were repaired with Autodesk 3d print soft

Time: 2h45 – 230°