Physical Designing
I’ve been thinking about ways to design objects physically with something tangible. LEGO seems like a likely candidate due to its ubiquity and familiarity across all ages and it allows a huge…
Instructiblocks Update
Following on from the further work laid out in the Instructiblocks ICED paper, the Instructiblocks kit has has had an update ready for a new participant study. The reader has now been…
PhysiCAD helps to redesign Fillwood community centre in Knowle West Bristol
The PhysiCAD “big rig” is currently taking part in the Knowle West Media Centre Citizen housing exhibition “We Can Make”. The We Can Make project is looking to enable local residents of Knowle West…
PhysiCAD (officially) comes to an end, but still lives on!
PhysiCAD has officially come to an end (as of May 2017). We were funded by the Engineering Physical Science Research Council to research the feasibility of using using construction kits as a tangible…
InstructiBlocks at ThingCamp
I took the InstructiBlocks demo down to the ThingsCamp community day held at St Paul’s Learning Centre earlier today. There were some great in-depth building sessions and there were a lot of different spaceship…
PhysiCAD at Maker Faire Newcastle 2017
The Design Manufacturing Futures lab at University of Bristol took the PhysiCAD project to Newcastle this weekend to showcase our work. We were a crowd favourite with about 500 people visiting our stand over…
InstructiBlocks presented at TEI’17
Last week I presented a demonstration of the InstructiBlocks project at TEI’17, the 11th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions. The demo was well received and we had a lot of great…
Batman to the rescue…
Currently working on building a Batman themed LEGO bridge building simulator for the upcoming Newcastle Maker Faire 2017. If your’e going to be at the Centre for Life on April 1st/2nd then…
FutureCities innovation series
I spent a couple of days in London this week at the FutureCities catapult. They aim to link business up with academics to drive innovation in critical sectors for the UK economy,…
InstructiBlocks going to TEI’17
I’m excited to be presenting the InstructiBlocks project in a fortnight’s time at TEI’17, the 11th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions which is held in Yokohama this year. The work in…