🏓️ Objective

Experiments and gain hands on experience with

servo motor + mechanical automata making
leap motion gesture interactive experience

Key Inspirations

Leap Motion gesture reactive light: https://vimeo.com/83861142

https://vimeo.com/83861142

Automata: experiment on how to make servo motor rotation motion into linear/expansion/etc

motion breakdown, rob ives tutorials - make things in paper to prototype, kinetic automata resource
flower automata: https://www.instructables.com/Ever-Blooming-Mechanical-Tulip/

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butterfly automata: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1560289890/butterfly-mechanical-automaton-with

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water ripple automata (link, laser cut template: link)

Second_Short_Video_g2bjld.mp4

Materials

1 Arduino + bread board	✅
1 or 2 Leap Motion	11/12 borrowed from ER for 1 week ✅
decide how many do i need and buy from ebay ASAP
plywood board	easy access from Tandon maker space ✅
cardboard	easy access from Micheal’s ✅
brass rod, brass tube	11/12 bought on amazon ✅

Technical Steps Breakdown

Leap motion + p5 (or TD, I tried TD + Leap motion before it works fine)
- map leap motion detection into location info serial communicate to Arduino to control which automata is moving.