I would like to briefly talk about the final project that I would like to create through this course.

Background

Looking back on my past journey, I started out making things for myself. Soon I have made some friends that we can make things together as a team. Gradually we are not satisfied just making things that we like, and found ourselves started developing workshops to question the issues among the society. Following the same flow of thinking, when I thought about what I wanted to do in FABACADEMY, I thought that this is a good point for me to re-visit the starting point and recreate again from a self-centered perspective.

Personal Experience

I am amazed at myself in the mirror. This was a strong childhood experience, and when I reached out to touch myself in the mirror, wondering how I could touch myself in the mirror, I was surprised to find that it was cold. I think this was a shared experience among many people.

This would be the experience that I want to update.

What if you can touch your mirrored self and shake hands with it?　Wouldn’t it update your primordial experience? That’s where I got the first idea.

Configuration

Of course, it would be overwhelmingly complicate if I do re-create and implement all the function like the real hand. Therefore, I sorted my mind based on the true function that I really want to realize.

In order to implement this experience, I firstly focused on the shape of the hand.There is a Japanese saying that hand is as good as the mouth. As we go through our lives, our hands are engraved with stories.

So, the initial idea came to me that I want to record the shape of the hand at the moment.I think it would be wonderful to have a device that not only records the shape of the hand, but also records the behavior of the hand and plays it back.How did it feel when your born children hold you with their tiny fingers? And how does it feel of your wrinkled hands when your wave your goodbye? I want to create a machine that could record all the movement and replay it physically.

Human beings have developed many methods for recording things. This started with painting with pens and papers, followed by photography with cameras, video recording with video cameras, and recently, 3D scanning, where the object itself is scanned and exported in 3D data format, which can later be 3D printed and acquired as an object.

In order to make such a dream story come true, I would like to start examining the process with my own hands first.

Shape

3D scanning → 3D data editing → 3D printing of silicon mold → Creation of outer skin with silicon

Inner mechanism 3D modeling → 3D printing → Assembly

System

Input

Skeleton detection with Leap Motion 2

Output

Air delivery mechanism or servo motor

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