Makers' Marks

Savage, Valkyrie; Follmer, Sean; Li, Jingyi; Hartmann, Björn

doi:10.1145/2807442.2807508

Cited by 73 publications

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“…(2) Projects that only present a novel engineering workflow without a new physical toolkit, such as the wide variety of workflows for connecting discrete components (Type 1) e.g. Instant Inkjet Circuits [62], iSkin [125], PaperPulse [103], The ToastBoard [40], Scanalog [120], VirtualComponent [33], Makers' Marks [111] and Heimdall [61]. (3) Purely mechanical toolkits for making physical artefacts without embedded electronic functionality, such as basic LEGO bricks, StrutModeling [71] and ProtoPiper [9].…”

Section: What Is An Electronics Prototyping Toolkit?mentioning

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A Survey and Taxonomy of Electronics Toolkits for Interactive and Ubiquitous Device Prototyping

Lambrichts

Ramakers

Hodges

et al. 2021

Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.

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Over the past two decades, many toolkits for prototyping interactive and ubiquitous electronic devices have been developed. Although their technical specifications are often easy to look up, they vary greatly in terms of design, features and target audience, resulting in very real strengths and weaknesses depending on the intended application. These less technical characteristics are often reported inconsistently, if at all. In this paper we provide a comprehensive survey of interactive and ubiquitous device prototyping toolkits, systematically analysing their characteristics within the framework of a new taxonomy that we present. In addition to the specific characteristics we cover, we introduce a way to evaluate toolkits more holistically, covering user needs such as 'ease of construction' and 'ease of moving from prototype to product' rather than features. We also present results from an online survey which offers new insights on how the surveyed users prioritize these characteristics during prototyping, and what techniques they use to move beyond prototyping. We hope our analysis will be valuable for others in the community who need to build and potentially scale out prototypes as part of their research. We end by identifying gaps that have not yet been addressed by existing offerings and discuss opportunities for future research into electronics prototyping toolkits.

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Section: What Is An Electronics Prototyping Toolkit?mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey and Taxonomy of Electronics Toolkits for Interactive and Ubiquitous Device Prototyping

Lambrichts

Ramakers

Hodges

et al. 2021

Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.

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“…The dominant body of research around 3D printing and personal fabrication in HCI is aiming towards the advancement of the printer and the printing process [1,36,42,48,49,62], materials to be used [25,40,43,57], includes the modifying or tailoring of machines [15,41] as well as possible application areas, as mapped out in [35] and [3]. As Baudisch and Mueller highlight, it is not fabrication that is novel as the technology itself is old, but novel is that it is personalized and therefore appearing in new contexts [3].…”

Section: Personal Fabricationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Baudisch and Mueller highlight, it is not fabrication that is novel as the technology itself is old, but novel is that it is personalized and therefore appearing in new contexts [3]. The continuous development of 3D printing technology makes 3D printers cheaper and more reliable, offering promises -as described earlier -but also opening for diverse and novel ways of manufacturing [20,21,53], thriving in hobby and maker settings [24,48,50], as well as applied within domestic use [52]. In recent personal fabrication discourse, scholars problematize how 3D printing may be useful for consumers (such as everyday end-users) and what such a transition would entail.…”

Section: Personal Fabricationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Machine Sensibility

Sydow

Jönsson

Tholander

2020

Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society

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This paper offers a conceptual contribution to understand 3D printing practice. We have studied conversations between 3D printing practitioners who discuss failed and discarded printed artifacts and analyzed how they make sense of the printing process. Based on findings of interactions with the machine itself, materials used, and designs applied, this study contributes to the field of HCI by highlighting the embodied and situated dimensions of 3D printing. Introducing the concept of machine sensibility, we characterize our findings around: i) assessing printability, ii) monitoring and intervening and iii) reading the prints. We use the term machine to highlight the importance of understanding the materiality of the 3D printer, and sensibility, to address critical interactions and abilities that surfaced in studying this practice. The concept allows researchers to put 3D printing practice in the context of contemporary interaction design research and helps to understand challenges of material-machine-design interdependencies. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); HCI theory, concepts and models; Interaction design; Empirical studies in interaction design.

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“…Design tools for computational fabrication have been proposed to ease the complexity of manually designing functional objects. A variety of domains have been addressed by prior work, including laser cut mechanisms [5], 3D shapes made from sheet material [3,19], or custom interactive objects and surfaces [27,29,[34][35][36]. Our concept was inspired by the approach presented by Konakovic et al [19], which generates a custom cut pattern that allows a sheet to wrap around a desired 3D geometry.…”

Section: Design Tools For Fabricationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lasec

Groeger

Steimle

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper introduces LASEC, the first technique for instant do-it-yourself fabrication of circuits with custom stretchability on a conventional laser cutter and in a single pass. The approach is based on integrated cutting and ablation of a two-layer material using parametric design patterns. These patterns enable the designer to customize the desired stretchability of the circuit, to combine stretchable with nonstretchable areas, or to integrate areas of different stretchability. For adding circuits on such stretchable cut patterns, we contribute routing strategies and a real-time routing algorithm. An interactive design tool assists designers by automatically generating patterns and circuits from a high-level specification of the desired interface. The approach is compatible with off-the-shelf materials and can realize transparent interfaces. Several application examples demonstrate the versatility of the novel technique for applications in wearable computing, interactive textiles, and stretchable input devices. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Interactive systems and tools.

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Makers' Marks

Cited by 73 publications

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A Survey and Taxonomy of Electronics Toolkits for Interactive and Ubiquitous Device Prototyping

A Survey and Taxonomy of Electronics Toolkits for Interactive and Ubiquitous Device Prototyping

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