Programmable materials, machine mechanisms, and end-user fabrication
Methods to operate and design new mechanisms for digital fabrication — 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC milling. Principles, models, theories, and prediction of behaviors in programmable materials, with emphasis on practical applications and late-breaking computational fabrication research in HCI for end-users.
The studio culminates in the formulation of a novel interaction technique for fabrication, grounded in mathematical representation of machine mechanisms and material behaviors.