Assignment

Purchase materials for first round experiments
List of at least 3 “experts” you plan to consult
Visual and textual information of related work/state of the art

What I Did

This week I:
- Reviewed feedback from class and continued to scope the project
- Gathered and purchased materials
- Collected insights from initial experts
- Collected visual and textual information for references

a summary of each is below!

Review Class Feedback & Scoping Final

I reviewed notes and feedback from class as a first step to scope my final before starting the week with office hours with Kari
- Feedback follow up notes
  - Ways to set up experimentation process?
  - Documentation via video/photos
    - I have videos of me detangling and
  - Tension testing, scales (for weight and tension, calipers, polysense readings?
  - stretching and compressing can data collect
  - degrees of capacitance
- Scoping:
  - Either want to focus on the detangling or on the crocheting creation
    - I decided to focus on crochet creation and save de tangling for a future project
      1. Create a soft robot that can detangle fibers cords, strings, create criteria for testing with different examples
        
        Jewelry, yarn, robe, electric cables,
        
        I already have equipment
I landed on the following topic to explore and scope for a proof of concept/experimentation process:
- Create a soft robot that can crochet
  1. Inspired by computation cross over with knitting, loom weaving, sewing and engineering innovation
    1. Want to try building a soft robot that can crochet to understand current limitations, highlight difference between human and machine,
    2. Applications for grabbers and other soft mechanisms we’ve seen in class

Collecting Materials

I have been collecting various materials for crocheting including equipment and tools and organized them and collected what I had to see what i would need to acquire another way

Materials

Tools

Crochet hooks in size order from smallest to largest left to right