Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Sense n sensability machine . 1:50 AM
We had to search for a location in school of which to design a machine to experience that space, taking a sense while enhancing one or more other senses. After much considerations, my group and i decided to decrease the sense of sight while enhancing the sense of touch. To do this, we made a pair of googles which had could fit more than one "lens". At one time there would be two lens in the googles made out of printed transparencies. On each transparency, is printed black grids and when they are placed in the googles the user may adjust them to how much he/ she wants to see. This is because when the square grids do not meet they block out more sight and when they do, they overlap each other leaving gaps for the user to look through.To increase the sense of touch, we made this boxy- wooden- finger tip gloves mechanism. We made slots at the tip of these finger gloves and added acrylic strips four of which bended in differents ways to maximise touch-angles. To adjust and control these strips, we added in "strings" to the tip of these strips. We also designed wooden wing-like flaps to be attched to the back part of the mechanism so as to "sense" if there is anything located at the back of the user.