Trusscillator: a System for Fabricating Human-Scale Human-Powered Oscillating Devices

Kovács, Róbert; Rambold, Lukas; Fritzsche, Lukas; Meier, Dominik; Shigeyama, Jotaro; Katakura, Shohei; Zhang, Ran; Baudisch, Patrick

doi:10.1145/3472749.3474807

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“…With Trusscillator [44] we extended our approach towards human-scale, human-powered devices, within the context of playground equipment. The system features a novel set of interactive tools that allow designers to focus on user experience-specific aspects, such as motion range, tempo, and effort, while abstracting away the underlying technicalities of eigenfrequencies, spring constants, and energy use.…”

Section: Engineering For Large Forcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human-Scale Personal Fabrication

Kovács

2021

Adjunct Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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The availability of commercial 3D printers and matching 3D design software has allowed a wide range of users to create physical prototypes -as long as these objects are not larger than hand-size.However, when attempting to create larger, "human-scale" objects, such as furniture, not only are these machines too small, but also the commonly used 3D design software is not equipped to design with forces in mind -since forces increase disproportionately with scale.In this thesis, we present a series of end-to-end fabrication software systems that support users in creating human-scale objects. They achieve this by providing three main functions that regular "small-scale" 3D printing software does not offer: (1) subdivision of the object into small printable components combined with ready-made objects,(2) editing based on predefined elements sturdy enough for larger scale, i.e., trusses, and (3) functionality for analyzing, detecting, and fixing structural weaknesses. The presented software systems also assist the fabrication process based on either 3D printing or steel welding technology. The presented systems focus on three levels of engineering challenges: (1) fabricating static load-bearing objects, (2) creating mechanisms that involve motion, such as kinematic installations, and ▪ Parts of the Introduction were published as: Harshit Agrawal, Udayan

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Section: Engineering For Large Forcesmentioning

confidence: 99%