394: Being 4-Yr-Olds
Professor HyunJoo Oh of GeorgiaTech spoke to us about paper machines, paper mechanical actions, paper sensors, paper tiny Jansen Strandbeests, and paper artwork.
HyunJoo is a professor at GeorgiaTech. She is the director of the CoDe Craft group. A number of the initiatives we spoke about might be discovered on the CoDe Craft Tasks web page.
PaperMech.web has demonstrations of various mechanical actions in addition to FoldMecha which reveals you what cardboard it is advisable lower out to make your individual mechanical motion, together with making a cardboard walker utilizing Jansen mechanism (Theo Jansen (wikipedia) made the Strandbeest). HyunJoo recommends two books for exploring additional:
The 507 Mechanical Actions ebook as a strategy to discover extra mechanical actions
Paper Automata: 4 Working Fashions to Reduce Out and Glue Collectively by Rob Ives
With Unblackboxing Computer systems, HyunJoo is exploring sensors that may be made with copper tape on paper. The introduction video: https://vimeo.com/637626404/f670dff03e