FlexM

(past projects)

FlexM is a 'computationally enhanced construction kit' that will enable a designer to construct, using a hub-and-spoke system with microprocessors embedded in the hubs, models that can subsequently be recognized by a computer. As the designer plays with the physical model, assembling, bending, and twisting the components, the computational representation follows along.

web page: /dmgftp/Markus/demo1a.MOV

researchers: Markus Eng, Ken Camarata, Michael Philetus Weller, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Mark D Gross

sponsor: National Science Foundation - DUE-0127579, ITR-0326054

last updated 8.24.2006 by Mark D Gross