"… the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we what something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly…" - Randy Pausch (2008)

二月 19, 2012

Tangible Surface V1

We are very happy that Actuating Geometry in Design Workshop has finished successfully!! In order to demonstrate the concept and signal transformation from physical simulation in Grasshopper to geometry calculation in Processing to physical actuation via Arduino, TsungHsien, Shih Yuan and I had a pre-workshop…

一月 29, 2012

Tangible Pixels (Pixelbot) is cited in Mark’s article of ACM Interactions!

Prof. Mark Gross of Carnegie Mellon publishes an article "Architectural Robotics Inevitably" in the latest ACM Interactions magazine, where the "Tangible Pixels" project of 2011 Taiwan Designers’ Week is cited as one of the examples!

一月 26, 2012

Actuating Geometry Workshop

"Actuating Geometry in Design" workshop will be held in 2012/02/11(Sat.) and 2012/02/12(Sun.) in Taipei (might borrow classroom of TKU). This workshop is organized and will be leaded by Tsung-Hsien Wang, Shih-Yuan Wang and Sheng Kai Tang…

一月 2, 2012

Statement of Adaptive Artifact V1

In one discussion I had with Professor Scott Hudson in a class at CMU in 2007, I brought up my first idea of Adaptive Artifact, which is an Adaptive Mouse. The discussion inspired my strong interest…

十二月 1, 2011

Tangible Pixels Video V1

Although it’s about two months since the end of the 2011 Taiwan Designers’ Week, Tangible Pixels project is still far from done. There are many research issues and implementation techniques that require more time to address and discovery after all. However, a video consisted of…

九月 19, 2011