Category / Work in Progress
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…
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…
Design Rule Exploration with InstructiBlocks
I’ve been working on a paper for ICED17 that takes Pete’s InstructiBlocks rig and explores how design rules affect design variation and innovation. I got 20 participants from the lab, engineering department…
Digital sketching on LEGO
The PhysiCAD demonstrator rig is being updated every day with new features, ready to be sent on in the New Year (Jan ’17) to the Bath City Guild coworking hub. Our friends…
Rig progress
Started work on the interactive touch screen part of the PhysiCAD rig. We will aim to replace this eventually with a series of Kinects that can track hand gestures for direct manipulation…
Augmented reality with Lego
Projector up and running! Testing out a few images and interaction which we will integrate with a touch screen to start off with.
Projecting on Lego
Mounted the new projector today – bit of a beast but super high quality! First demos of projecting custom google maps onto the build area look really promising. Will integrate some digital…
