Category Archives: Assignment 1
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…
Assignment 1
Assignment 1. [Due Tuesday 9/10/2013] All of the assignments should be documented or linked to on this site. Either post to this site or link from here to your OWN SITE. For each post, check…