Principles and practices

Assignment: plan and sketch a potential semester project.

Machines and gardens

As we can see from the related links articles, automata at the 17th Century populate renaissance gardens. Automatas were machines that interacted with in the nature, the garden and the visitors. Some interactions from this time aimed to surprise people by activating mechanism which dropped water, created sounds and music and activated hydraulic systems.

These automatas were hosted in the caves of the gardens or any other place that allowed creators to hide the machines and mechanisms.

I would like to recreate these interactive situations and experiences by building modular structures that hosts devices to implement an interaction among nature, the structure and visitors.

A Cat Play House

The aim of this final project is to prototype this by designing and building a momentary structure, the interactions and the networking communications among devices. A possibility for doing this is to create a cat play house where all this situations will happen in a more affordable escale.

Working on

CAD and 3D Printing: structure, joints, device's enclousure.

Electronic Production/Design / Input/Output devices: ultrasonic sensors, LDR, humidity sensor, temperature sensor.

Networking communications: RF Communications among devices for interactions.