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Kinetic Blocks: Actuated Constructive Assembly for Interaction and Display

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Talkat UIST 2015 · 2015-11-08..11-11· [embedded-and-hardware]

speakers

name:Philipp Schoessler
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name:Daniel Windham
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name:Daniel Leithinger
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name:Sean Follmer
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name:Hiroshi Ishii
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/vvrvey6F8So
slides:none on file

summary

Shape-changing table uses 900 actuated pins moving 10 cm to assemble, disassemble and animate 5x5x5 cm wooden blocks weighing 90 g, plus magnetic locking blocks and four kinematic modules (extender, hanger, slider, rotator). Movement primitives (sleds, rails, tumbling, catapulting, scaffolds) achieve reliable stacks up to three stories; robustness evaluated with 100 runs per movement showing high success until complex open-loop sequences fail. Software pipeline uses 3ds Max scripts and 3D‑printed parts.

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chapters (8)

  1. 0:00Introduction and motivation
  2. 1:36Related work and design space
  3. 3:15Movement and rotation
  4. 4:32Stacking and assembly
  5. 6:23Evaluation and testing
  6. 8:26Remote assembly and software
  7. 10:21Kinematic modules
  8. 12:26Limitations and future work

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