Play with Animatronic Eyes
- Award: Best Physical Computing in the 2019 CANES FILM FESTIVAL
- Topic: 3d printing, physical computing
- Duration: 3 weeks [ Apr 2019 ]
- Tools: SketchUp for architecture/ 3d printer/ Arduino circuit
- Programming language: C++
The Origin of the Concept
The eyes of humans are the part that can express many emotions, which also can easily trigger the emotions of others. So if I want to explore the question that how to influence the emotion of my users, make an installation of Animatronic Eyes is definitely an idea worth trying.
Demo in the 2019 CANES FILM FESTIVAL, School of Communication
building process
Make a "one eye" prototype
Before I finally built and printed the model of animatronic eyes, I’d made a prototype to test its physical mechanism and the codes. After testing, I found some issues with the model.
Modify 3d model in SketchUp for architecture
The problems of the original design mainly come from two aspects:
1. the distance between 3D printing parts on the plate is too short;
2. the structure of the joints connecting the upper and lower eyelids are not functioning well with 3D printing;
So I made some changes.
1. Amplify the distance
2. Change the structure of the joints
Final model
3D printing
Assemble Parts
