Rapid-Prototyping of Rapid-Prototyping Machines:
How to Make Something that Makes (almost) Anything

Prototyping

readings

Materials selection in mechanical design, M.F. ASHBY and D. CEBON 1993

Gestural Design, Ilan Moyer 2013

Transforming society by transforming technology: the science and politics of participatory design - Peter M. Asaro 2000


notes

Design methodology

Participatory design

Prototyping practice

Spiral development

Vertical integration

Horizontal alignment


slides
here


assignment

Build a gestural machine using materials such as foam core, hot glue, cardboard, and reuseable hardware. Experiment with motion restriction and kinematics.