Chandni Venkataraman

Revisiting the brief

ConceptMake a D.I.Y/ D.I.W.O

(do it with others) mobile labstudio that becomes our extended sense

while engaging with a space.

DIY Portable Labstudio

Make you own equipment

Extend your senses

Engage with a space

Visualizations and

audioscapes

Experiments, building skill and inspiration.

Arduino

Arduino 8 key piano

Experimenting with the ultrasonic sensor

* What did you learn with doing the Arduino? Why Arduino? -Arduino allows you to plug in sensors -it acts as an interface between the sensor and the computer and outputs values -you can customise logic, play around.

Explorations

* I was looking for something to make, to inspire and I just kept watching and searching… collecting ideas. Knowing what is possible what can be done.

Explorations

Researched about the DIY spectrometer. Didn’t end up making….- frustrated with not being getting the wrong motor - frustrated about not being able to understand stepper

motor driver. - turned out that I bought the wrong motor- unipolar motor.

Few Articles

* Informal research on some existing maker curricula’s and some an example of existing instructional resources for teachers.

Readings

* Informal research on some existing maker curricula’s and some an example of existing instructional resources for teachers.

In-context

ConstructionismConstructionism suggests that

people learn best when they make things.

One is learning by building on

what they know, learning through experience, discovery and

problem solving.

Bots

DrawBot

Workshopology

Science Teacher

Art Teacher Children

Personas

Observations• “this is so cool! I feel like scientist working in a lab!”

-Rahul while soldering

• Manu (7 years) didn’t want anything to do with the “hot stuff”. He’d rather I do the hot stuff and he do the cold stuff.

• One child decided to not make both bots but two of the same bot.

• Joining of tables

• The lab space served as an place for multiple engagements- music, food as well as working

Insights• No competition

• Children chose their level of complexity and paced themselves

• There was lot of problem solving involved with respect to the drawbot

• Children learn from each other and learn from watching

• Conversations (in and out of context)

• needed facilitation with things unfamiliar to them

Observations

• Only made the drawbots.

• Didn’t get too much into decoration of the bot.

• Mr. Mekhri made the bot exactly as per the instruction where as padmini experimented with different positions of the sketchpens.

• They didn’t make any add ons.

Observations

• Got into decoration of the bot extensively

• Was interested in the various materials she could use in order to make the bot more expressive.

Challenges

Post Workshop

What is it?

• Light following bot with a two LDRs.

• respective motors move according to the amount of light information on the respective LDRs

• It can float on water

Troubleshooting

• Need to balance out the weight

• Change the orientation of the LDRs.

Possibilities• Colour sensitive bots

• Plug-in any sensor - temperature, gas , pressure, humidity

• When floating on water - Microscope, Turbidity sensor, measure salinity, record underwater sounds.

• Attach a webcam/ IRcam/ Thermal-cam

• Synth Bots

• Use a programmed chip to make it behave in a specific manner.

How can these Bots collect data?

• Bluetooth

• Radio frequency

• Hack a remote controlled car

• Store information on an SD card and collect the data when the bot is retrieved.

• Arduino

And…This is where I am now