FlowIO Papa Whakawhanake Pēhanga Hau nā Ali Shtarbanov

Ko te hoahoa FlowIO Papa Whakawhanake Pēhanga Hau nā Ali Shtarbanov he kaitoa whakahirahira o te 2021 A' Design Award Hiriwa i te Wāhanga Whakataetae Hoahoa Taputapu Pūtaiao me ngā Taputapu Rangahau.

HiriwaTaputapu Pūtaiao· 2021

FlowIO Papa Whakawhanake Pēhanga Hau

nā Ali Shtarbanov

Kiritaki: Ali Shtarbanov, MIT Media Lab

Kaitoa o te A' Design Award Hiriwa i te Wāhanga Taputapu Pūtaiao

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Te Hoahoa

Mō FlowIO Papa Whakawhanake Pēhanga Hau

He papa whakawhanake pēhanga hau a FlowIO mō te whakahaere, te whakaohooho me te rongo i ngā karetao ngohe me ngā rauemi taea te whakahōtaka. Ka whakakotahi te kōwae matua i ngā puare, ngā pūoko, he mānokoiti, he pākahiko me tētahi utaina. Ka honoa ngā kōwae papu mā te aukume, ā, ka taea te whakawhiti i te wā e whakamahia ana, me ngā kōwhiringa iti, waenga, nui hoki mō ngā pēhanga me ngā tere rere rerekē. Ka whakauruhia ngā kōwae ki roto i ngā whare pāwhiri-uru tā-3D. Ka tāpirihia e tētahi kete taputapu pūmanawa ngā atanga whakairoiro pūkoro me te pouaka mahi, te whakahaere Bluetooth me ngā atanga whakahōtaka. E hāngai ana a FlowIO ki ngā kaupapa pouaka mahi me ngā kaupapa ka taea te kākahu.

Te Whakamihi

Mō te A' Design Award Hiriwa

Ko FlowIO Papa Whakawhanake Pēhanga Hau te toa o te A' Design Award Hiriwa, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa taumata teitei rawa, ātaahua me te whakamīharo. Ko ngā toa Hiriwa he mahi tino kanapa, tino auaha e whakaatu ana i te mātanga, te pūmanawa me te mōhio hōhonu o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko FlowIO Papa Whakawhanake Pēhanga Hau he mahi whakamīharo, he tauira, he tino ngaio, he auaha hōhonu. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Hiriwa he hanganga rongonui, whakamīharotia e whai wāhi ana ki te whakawhānui i ngā rohe o te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau. Ko FlowIO Papa Whakawhanake Pēhanga Hau he mahi e hae ana te tini, e whakaara ana i ngā hiahia, e kawe mai ana i ngā kare-ā-roto pai, ā, e whakaoho ana i te mīharo.

I Muri i te Hoahoa

Kete Pāpāho

Ngā whakamihi, ngā mema o te rōpū me ngā taipitopito hangarau i whakaratohia e te kaihoahoa.

Āhuatanga Motuhake: FlowIO is a fully-integrated, general-purpose development platform for control of soft robots and programmable materials. With magnetically connected pump modules that are swappable on-the-fly, FlowIO can satisfy diverse project needs of researchers, artists, and makers. A software toolkit with mobile and desktop graphical interfaces, Bluetooth controls, and APIs for Arduino and JavaScript — enable users from any technical background to get started and unleash their creativity with FlowIO.
Inenga & Pēketanga: Five pneumatic I/O ports, each capable of 7 actions, and three swappable pump modules (small, medium, large) can satisfy different needs for pressures (-26 to 30 psi), size, and flow-rates. FlowIO with small pumps has dimensions 59x55x28 mm and mass of only 114g. Expansion modules and accessories enable additional sensing, control, and mounting options for both wearable and nonwearable applications. BLE Capability, multiple APIs, and a GUI enable diverse options for interacting with FlowIO.
Tūtohu: Development Platform, Toolkit, Pneumatic Control System, Soft Robotics, Programmable Materials, Shape Change, Tangible User Interface, Wearables, Arduino, Raspberry Pi
Hangarau Whakanao: FlowIO contains a main module, different pump modules, expansion modules, and accessories. The main module integrates 7 valves, 2 custom PCBs, sensors, microcontroller, and a battery with charger. Each pump module has 2 pumps, a custom PCB, and a battery with integrated charger. Auxiliary modules also consist of custom PCBs. The modules connect magnetically and are enclosed in 3D-printed snap-fit enclosures, that can be printed in any color. All hardware designs are made public and open-source.
Wero Hoahoa: The main challenge was making FlowIO highly energy-efficient and miniaturized yet fully-integrated with pumps, valves, sensors, electronics, batteries. and even charging circuits. Other pneumatic platforms with far fewer capabilities are 5-10 times larger than FlowIO and they still require external pumps and/or power sources. Over a dozen design iterations were dedicated towards finding clever ways of reducing size. Developing multiple APIs and a cross-platform GUI was another major challenge.
Rangahau: Over a dozen people have used FlowIO to date, from PhD researchers and high-school students to makers and artists. It has enabled people to develop projects in various categories including interactivity, artistic expression, locomotion, telepresence, haptic feedback, and assistive technologies. Feedback was collected from existing and prospective users continuously to inform many of the design iterations. FlowIO was also used as a teaching tool in a graduate digital fabrication course at MIT.
Whakaaweawe: Arduino and Raspberry Pi democratized electronics and computing. FlowIO aims to democratize soft robotics and programmable materials in a similar way. The lack of development platforms for soft robotics makes the field highly inaccessible for most people and stifles innovation. The FlowIO platform was developed with the goal to democratized the emerging field of soft robotics and make rapid prototyping more accessible for researchers, artists, designers, and makers.
Roanga o te Kaupapa: FlowIO originated out of necessity as a system I made for my own research in soft robotics and morphable interfaces at MIT Media Lab. As many other researchers, makers, and artists showed strong interest and asked to use FlowIO in their own works, in late 2019 the idea was born to augment FlowIO into a truly general purpose pneumatics development platform suitable for everyone. FlowIO has now undergone over 20 prototype iterations, with numerous new features added during those iterations.
Rerenga Mahi: FlowIO enables users to rapidly bring soft robotics projects to life and to focus on developing actuators and experiences instead of spending time designing pneumatics, electronics, or writing control software. Miniature size, battery operation, and various modules and accessories make FlowIO suitable for both desktop and wearable applications involving inflation, vacuum, release, pressure sense, and flow variability. Multiple APIs and GUI make it possible for anyone to use the device with ease.
Ngā Mema o te Rōpū: Ali Shtarbanov
Hyejun Youn
Ozgun Afsar
Advisor: Dr. Joseph Paradiso of MIT Media Lab
Whakamana Whakaahua: Ali Shtarbanov