Prototypes …maybe nsfw
I started with adding a motor to one of the original octopus experiments I did to see what it looked like: Tentacle Arm A Tentacle Arm B Tentacle Arm C Tentacle Arm D Then I…
Sensor Assignment
Where’s The Octopus? – Cephalopod Skin and Vision I saw this video about cephalopods and their amazing skill at mimicry and thought it would be an amazing tool to implement in other forms and…
Electroreception Locator
All living organisms produce electrical signals — if you are alive, there is a voltage being produced somewhere in your body. Sharks and other submarine predators use this fact to catch their prey without even seeing them, locating them…
Assignment 2
Design a new kind of biomimetic sensor: Identify a living organism, or the sensory system of a particular organism. Design a concept for a new type of sensor that mimics that organic system. [You can…
1.4 Reading
1. The lines that struck me the most from this overview of the what’s and why’s of biomimicry from Janine Benyus were in the last paragraph – “That [endangerment of natural ecosystems] makes biomimicry more than…
1.1 More Tentacles
So, jumping off from the exercise in class I decided to do some more experimenting with the idea of tentacle motion for Assignment 1. Here are three simple experiments and approaches toward finding good materials,…
2 Biomimetic Projects
1. I found the soft robotics research group at Harvard University and it seems to be exploring a lot of the things that I was curious about when I explored the octopus tentacle idea in…
Two Biomimetic Designs
I think that the great potential in biomimicry is to bring human experience into a more harmonious existence with the rest of the biological world. Therefore I prefer examples of biomimicry that draw solutions from the natural…
Assignment 1
Assignment 1. [Due Tuesday 9/10/2013] All of the assignments should be documented or linked to on this site. Either post to this site or link from here to your OWN SITE. For each post, check…
Schedule
SCHEDULE Biomimetic Design, ITP Fall 2013, taught by Gabriella Levine Tuesdays 3:30 – 6:00, September 3 – October 22 Website: http://www.levinegabriella.com/exploringbiomimicry/itp/ Email : Gabriella.levine@gmail.com Office hours : Tuesday 6 – 8 pm and/or Friday 3 – 6 pm…
Intro to Biomimetic Design
Biomimetic designs are used both practically and conceptually to provide solutions to a wide range of environmental and technological problems. Designers have developed an assistive arm modeled off of an elephant trunk that moves in…