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playground:thbbi [2021/05/08 14:17] – [road to desktop bubble] inneplayground:thbbi [2021/05/09 01:40] – [road to winter festival] inne
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-As with anything unfamiliar its wise to start designing something simple. A soft robotic bubble is a great project. It let'you get the hang of both motor control and pouring silicone. +As with anything unfamiliar its wise to start designing something simple. A soft robotic bubble is a great project. It lets you get the hang of both motor control and pouring silicone. 
-The less complexity the less that can go wrong. For dealing with the always critical onlooker, just tell them you are working on a one degrees of freedom soft robotic actuator.+The less complexity the less that can go wrong. For dealing with the always critical onlooker, just tell them you are working on a one degrees of freedom soft robotic actuator. Which is what I ended up making.
  
-Around the time I was working on this our community Makerspace got visited by the neighborhood committee. They were looking to spice up the local winter festival with some technology. The prototype bubble turned into an "art" installation of 17 independent bubbles that could change color via Neopixels. Scaling the prototype and making a fitting enclosure for it took a lot of effort. But with tons of help from my awesome fellow Makerspace participants we managed to finish the installation just in time.+Around the time I was working on thisour community Makerspace got visited by the neighborhood committee. They were looking to spice up the local winter festival with some technology. The prototype bubble turned into an "art" installation of 17 independent bubbles that could change color via Neopixels. Scaling the prototype and making a fitting enclosure for it took a lot of effort. But with tons of help from my awesome fellow Makerspace participants we managed to finish the installation just in time.
  
 The winter festival is a weekend long event with, by and for our neighborhood. It's free and anyone is welcome to visit. The soft robotic bubbles garnered a lot of attention especially with the many kids at the festival. The bubbles themselves proved to be very robust which made the installation weirdly interactive. It is nice to have something to show for your work and I really enjoyed my time at the festival. The winter festival is a weekend long event with, by and for our neighborhood. It's free and anyone is welcome to visit. The soft robotic bubbles garnered a lot of attention especially with the many kids at the festival. The bubbles themselves proved to be very robust which made the installation weirdly interactive. It is nice to have something to show for your work and I really enjoyed my time at the festival.
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-The next milestone will be adding the pressure sensor and making it battery powered. My main goal is to turn the Desktop Bubble into a learn guide and the electronics into a feather wing. Hopefully this will make starting off easier and also encourage more people to give soft robotics a try. It would be nice to see more hobby level projects using these techniques. If you see something cool let me know!+The next milestone will be adding the pressure sensor and making it battery powered. My main goal is to turn the Desktop Bubble into a learn guide and the electronics into a feather wing. Hopefully this will make starting out easier and also encourage more people to give soft robotics a try. It would be nice to see more hobby level projects using these techniques.So if you see something cool let me know!
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