Prototypes …maybe nsfw
I started with adding a motor to one of the original octopus experiments I did to see what it looked like: Tentacle Arm A Tentacle Arm B Tentacle Arm C Tentacle Arm D Then I…
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Sensor Assignment
Where’s The Octopus? – Cephalopod Skin and Vision I saw this video about cephalopods and their amazing skill at mimicry and thought it would be an amazing tool to implement in other forms and…
1.4 Reading
1. The lines that struck me the most from this overview of the what’s and why’s of biomimicry from Janine Benyus were in the last paragraph – “That [endangerment of natural ecosystems] makes biomimicry more than…
1.1 More Tentacles
So, jumping off from the exercise in class I decided to do some more experimenting with the idea of tentacle motion for Assignment 1. Here are three simple experiments and approaches toward finding good materials,…
2 Biomimetic Projects
1. I found the soft robotics research group at Harvard University and it seems to be exploring a lot of the things that I was curious about when I explored the octopus tentacle idea in…