Inspiration:

General idea: “voodoo doll” puppet made with flex sensors that controls a sketch in p5

• you can remove the puppet from its box and play around with it. as you bend it, you see the p5 sketch changing

Concept: commentary on body and movement

Fabrication: monitor, sewing, 3D printed skeleton

Major components: rotary encoders, serial communication from Arduino to p5, monitor

Mood board/inspiration:

Fabrication:

Skeleton:

For fabrication, we started by 3D-printing the doll’s “skeleton.” Neither of us had used CAD before, so this was the first learning curve.

We met with Sao, who provided us with some valuable advice on the flex sensors. However, when we met with Phil, he informed us that flex sensors are challenging to obtain accurate readings. They are usually good for things like making music that doesn’t need to be super precise. They also might break if we bend them too far. He suggested that, instead, we use rod encoders as joints and 3D-print “bones.” I spent a lot of time 3D-printing different structures. Even though we measured, the smaller measurement would make it “off.”

Once we got those measurements down. We were able to print the rest of the body.